Treatment of low density lipophorin with lipoprotein lipase: diacylglycerol content has no effect on dissociation of apolipophorin III from low-density lipophorin. |
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Authors: | T Hiraoka C Katagiri |
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Affiliation: | Biochemistry Laboratory, Hokkaido University. |
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Abstract: | The mechanism of the conversion of low-density lipophorin (LDLp) to high-density lipophorin (HDLp) in long-distance flight insects was investigated using a lipoprotein lipase from a bacterium, Alcaligenes sp. Diacylglycerol of LDLp was steadily hydrolyzed in vitro by the lipase, resulting in a 90% loss of diacylglycerol from LDLp during incubation. The "lipase-treated LDLp" thus obtained still contained associated apolipophorin-III (apoLp-III). These data suggest that the dissociation of apoLp-III is independent of the depletion of diacylglycerol from LDLp, and that the decrease in particle diameter caused by the depletion of diacylglycerol does not force the dissociation of apoLp-III from the lipophorin particle. Some physico-chemical properties of the lipase-treated LDLp were measured. |
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