Chpt 22-Fatty Acid Metabolism Flashcards
Fatty Acid Function
1) Fuel-stored as Triacylglycerol (FAT)
2) Synthesis of Phospholipids and Glycolipids (membranes)
3) Modify Proteins
4) Synthesis of Hormones
Fatty Acid Structure
Large Hydrocarbon chain termination at Carboxylate group
-saturate/unsaturated
Triacylglycerol (FAT)
-function
Energy Dense form of energy storage
-reduced and anhydrous
Triacylglycerols
-Structure
Uncharged esters of fatty acids with glycerol group
-Glycerol + 3 Fatty Acids
Triacylglycerols are stored in?
- cytoplasm of adipose tissue(Fat) cells for mobilization to blood stream
- Muscle cells for generation of ATP (Marbled steak)
Fatty Acid Degredation/Synthesis
-general characteristics
Requires Four steps
- Cataboism vs Anabolism
- Reactions are not reverse
Digestion of Dietary Lipids
- Digested by?
- Where?
- Absorbed?
Dietary Triacylglycerol digested by PANCREAS LIPASES
-removes 2 fatty acids by hydrolysis in sequential steps from glycerol producing monoacyglycerol
Where? In the Intestinal Lumen
-Triacylglycerols are incorporated into micelles with bile salts
Fatty acids and monoacylglycerol absorbed into mucous cells
Bile Salts
Synthesized from cholesterol in liver
-secreted from gall bladder
Steatorrhea
Disease due to production of insufficient mucosal cells
-fat excrete in feces
Fatty Acid Catabolism 4 General Steps:
1) Oxidation
2) Hydration
3) Oxidation
4) Cleavage
Fatty Acid Anabolism 4 General Steps:
1) Reduction
2) Dehydration
3) Reduction
4) Condensation
Transportation of dietary lipids
After we breakdown the lipids, we transport them across the membrane and into mucosal cells
-Triacylglycerols are resynthesized and assembled into chylomicrons
Triacylgylcerol used to produce ATP
Triacylglycerols mobilized from adipose tissue (fat cells) by hormonal (Epinephrine/Glucagon) controlled reaction
1) Glycerol enters the blood and is carried to the liver
and is converted to pyruvate or glucose through glycolysis or gluconeogenesis
2) Fatty acids are attached to albumin enter the blood and travel to mitochondria of tissue that:
-oxidized fatty acids to Acetyl CoA, NADH, or FADH2
-AND oxidizes Acetyl CoA in Krebs cycle to Co2, NADH, and FADH2
WHICH CAN ALL BE CONVERTED to ATP
Triacylglycerol Lipase
Releases fatty acids from triacylglycerol stored in adipose tissue (NOT the same mechanism as dietary lipids)
Triacylglycerol Lipase
-Hormone Control
Hormone Control:
1) Epinephrine/Glucagon increases activity of Signal Transduction pathway involving:
- Bind to 7TM
- G Protein
- Adenylate Cyclase-synthesizes ATP
- Protein Kinase A
- PERLIPIN A
- Triacylglycerol Lipase
Phosphorylation turns Triacylglycerol Lipase FON