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1
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What is a lipid?

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Water insoluble biological compound soluble in fat solvents

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What properties define whether a substance is called a lipid or not?

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Solubility properties

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Give some examples of lipids

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Fatty acids, TAG, TG, cholesterol, membrane phospholipids, steroid hormones, etc.

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Describe the structure of a fatty acid

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Long chain carboxylic acid

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What is the name for a 16C saturated FA?

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Palmitic acid (ionized form = palmitate)

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From which end does the numbering system using ω start? α?

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Hydrocarbon end; Acid end

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What is a 18C monounsaturated FA?

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Oleate

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What is the major dietary lipid?

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Triacylglycerol (TAG)

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What composes bile salts?

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Cholesterol esters (planar ring structure with hydroxyl groups facing towards hydrophilic surface,
and steroidal surface facing hydrophobic areas)
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WhatdigestsTGintomonoacylglycerolsanddiacylglycerols?

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Lipase (gastric or pancreatic)

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What protein binds to lipase and stabilizes it by displacing a bile salt in a micelle?

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Colipase

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What enzyme cleaves cholesterol esters?

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Cholesterol esterase

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What enzyme cleaves FA from TAG at the 2 position?

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phospholipaseA2

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Through what circulation are bile salts returned to the liver?

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enterohepatic circulation

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How much (percentage) of the bile salt pool is excreted?

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5%

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How is a FA activated?

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Acylated by addition of CoAsh (high energy thioester) utilizing ATP to AMP, produces FA‐CoA

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How many high energy phosphate bonds are required for FA activation in their oxidative
catabolism?

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2

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18
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What carries FA into the lymphatic system?

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Chylomicrons

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What composes most of a chylomicron?

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TAG’s

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Are cholesterols present in chylomicrons?

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Yes (hydroxyl groups pointed out)

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If the B –apoprotein gene is going to produce a protein destined for the liver how much of the
AA transcript is produced?

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100%, thus its termed ApoB‐100

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If the B –apoprotein gene is going to produce a protein destined for the intestine how much of
the AA transcript is produced?

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48%, thus ApoB‐48

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What transfers proteins to ApoB particles?

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Micosomal TG transfer protein (MTP)

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What organelle is responsible for apo particle maturation and secetion?

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Where are chylomicrons synthesized?
Intestinal epithelial cell
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Where is a TG converted to 2‐MG or FA ? (free fatty acids)
Intestional Lumen
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Where is the TG resynthesized?
Intestinal epithelial cell
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Where are nascent chylomicons?
Lymph
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What forms a mature chylomicron?
ApoCII added by HDL+ApoE
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What activates mature CM?
LPL
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Where does the released FA travel to?
Muscles, adipose tissue, etc.
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Where does the glycerol travel to?
Liver (glycerol cycle)
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Does the same glycerol cleaved take part in TAG resynthesis for instance in adipocytes?
No, it’s a new glycerol molecule
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What are some examples of lipids? (8)
1. fatty acids 2. TAGs or triglycerides 3. membrane phospholipids 4. cholesterol 5. steroid hormones 6. vitamins 7. 2nd messengers 8. PGs
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When is a fatty acid saturated?
no double bonds within the long chain hydrocarbon
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T/F Fatty acids are fuel molecules in metabolism
True
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What is the major source of dietary fatty acids?
TAG
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What gives bile acids and salts their hydrophilic and hydrophobic side to allow them to be detergents?
-OH groups are all on the same side so the side with the -OH is hydrophilic
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Outline the steps in digestion of TAG to formation of chylomicrons
1. TG in intestinal lumen converted to 2-MG and fatty acids 2. Resynthesized into triglycerides 3. Starts to assemble into small ApoB-48 particles at RER 4. Incorporated into chylomicrons 5. Onto the golgi complex 6. Packaged for secretion for lymph 7. MTP is microsomal TG transfer protein
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Which digestive enzyme requires protein colipase to stabilize and localize lipase near the bile salt-TG particle?
pancreatic lipase
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What are the enzymes in order of introduction of the TG to the chylomicrons?
1. lingual lipase (short and medium TAG) 2. gastric lipase 3. pancreatic lipase (lipase, colipase, bile salts)
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If short or medium chains of TAG are present in the digestion process, what enzymes are necessary?
only lingual lipase as this will allow it to bypass the gut and go straight to the liver
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T/F Bile salts are recycled by entero-hepatic circulation
True, 95% saved
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Describe the intestinal resynthesis of TG
1. activation of fatty acids 2. TAG synthesis 3. 2-MG 4. DAG 5. TAG
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Where do chylomicrons go?
lymph
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Where does the lipase activity to make FA occur? Where are chylomicrons made?
- gut lumen of the cell contains the lipase activity | - chylomicrons are made in mucosal cells
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What is present outside on the structure of a lipoprotein?
cholesterol, peripheral apoprotein, amphipathic lipids
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What is found in the interior of a lipoprotein?
choseserol ester, TAG, core of nonpolar lipids
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What is the composition of a chylomicron in order of most to least?
TG>phospholipid>protein>cholesterol ester>cholesterol
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What structure of the chylomicron will tell it the direction to take?
HDL + ApoE, ApoCii
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What has the B-apoprotein gene?
VLDLs in the liver
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If the B-apoprotein gene from the RER is sent to the liver, which gene will be present? Intestine?
Apo B-100 will be present in liver with 100% translated Apo B-48 produced 48% of polypeptide due to RNA editing causing a stop codon
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T/F For chylomicron synthesis to occur, an MTP is required
True, microsomal TG transfer protein
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Where does the chylomicron go after it becomes a larger ApoB particle?
To golgi for maturation and secretion
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Describe the path of chylomicrons wrt to the cellular components
1. brush border villae 2. SER and RER 3. Golgi 4. chylomicrons 5. lymph
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What is the role of chylomicrons?
transport dietary TG
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What is a water insoluble biological compound solubine in fat solvents such as alcohol, ether, chloroform which is defined by solubility properties?
lipid

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