Digestion and Absorption of Lipids, Intestinal Secretion, Diarrhea Flashcards
what constitutes most of all dietary lipids
triglycerides
name all the sources of dietary lipids
triglycerides
phospholipids
cholesterol
before they can be absorbed what must be done to lipids?
be made water soluble
in the stomach lipids tend to separate into what?
oily phase
this is emptied later from stomach
mixing in the stomach does what to lipids and why?
breaks them into droplets
to increase total surface area available to digestive enzymes
what prevents complete emulsification of lipids
low pH of stomach
gastric lipase (what does it do)
hydrolyzes triglycerides to diglycerides and free fatty acids
what slows gastric emptying to allow for sufficient time for digestion and absorption in duodenum
CCK
in the small intestine fats are emulsified by what (and what property of them) and why
bile salts and lecithin
detergent action
increase total surface area
what type of environment does emulsification require?
neutral or slightly basic
pancreatic enzymes hydrolyze lipids into what?
fatty acids
monoglycerides
lysophospholipids
cholesterol
pancreatic lipase (what does it do, what is result)
cleaves fatty acids from 1 and 3 positions of triglycerides
results in 2 free fatty acids and a 2-monoglyceride
cholesterol ester hydrolase (what does it do, what is result)
cleaves fatty acid from cholesterol esters, leaving free cholesterol and fatty acid
phospholipase A2 (what does it do, what is result)
releases fatty acid from position 2 of phospholipids yielding lysophospholipids and free fatty acid
colipase (is secreted as what from where)
pancreas
inactive precursor
colipase (what type of protein is it, where is it activated, and by what)
non-enzymatic protein
intestinal lumen
trypsin
colipase (what type of protein is it, where is it activated, and by what)
non-enzymatic protein
intestinal lumen
trypsin
colipase prevents what and how?
inhibition of pancreatic lipase by bile salts (displace enzyme from surface of emulsion droplet)
emulsification products of lipolysis form what?
water-soluble mixed micelles with bile
what role to the micelles play in absorption of lipids?
bring products of lipid digestion through unstirred water layer into contact with microvilli on surface of enterocytes
how do monoglycerides, fatty acids, cholesterol, lysophospholipids, and fat-soluble vitamins get across luminal membrane
simple diffusion (highly lipid soluble) some evidence of transporters
what lipid digestion products are water-soluble enough to diffuse into cell without aid of micelles
medium chained fatty acids
where are bile salts (freed of associated lipids) absorbed
terminal ileum
what lipid is hydrophilic and not contained in micelles
glycerol
what happens to products of lipid digestion in the enterocyte
reesterified to triglycerides and phospholipids
in the monoglyceride acylation pathway triglycerides are synthesized from what?
2-monoglycerides (product of pancreatic lipase) and CoA- activated fatty acids
in the monoglyceride acylation pathway where does reesterification take place
smooth ER
in the monoglyceride acylation pathway how do the long chain fatty acids get transported within the cell
fatty-acid binding proteins
what fatty acids are absorbed directly into blood stream without resynthesis into triglycerides
medium-chained fatty acids
what fatty acids are absorbed directly into blood stream without resynthesis into triglycerides
medium-chained fatty acids
phosphatidic acid is synthesized from what?
2 Acyl CoA and alpha-glycerophosphate
alpha-glycerophosphate is derived from where
hexose metabolism
in the phosphatidic acid pathway triglycerides are synthesized from what, and what is the byproduct?
phosphatidic acid and Acyl CoA
phosphate is also produced in reaction