Exam 4 - Lipid Metabolism Flashcards
What are the two most important tissues with respect to TAG production?
Liver and adipose
TAG is stored as lipid droplets in the []
cytoplasm
What “form” is TAG transported through the blood as?
Plasma-lipoprotein
Chylomicrons are a type of what….?
Plasma-lipoprotein
In a fasted states FA could be used for 2 things:
- Burned for energy to make []
- Used to make [] bodies
- glucose
- Ketone bodies
Acyl-CoA Synthetase does?
Activates fatty acids to acyl-CoA using ATP and CoASH
What primary intermediate do we need to get to in order to take Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate to TAG?
What 2 reactions take place to reach this intermediate?
- Lysophosphatidic Acid
- Reduction and Acylation
- Depends on the minor or major pathway for which one is first
- If Major pathway - reduction, followed by acylation
What is the path of “main” molecules from Glucose –> TAG?
- Glucose –> Glyceraldehyde 3-P
- Glyceraldehyde 3-P —> Glyceral 3-P
- Glycerol 3-P —> Lysophosphatidic acid
- Lysophosphatidic Acid —> Phosphatidic Acid
- Phosphatidic Acid —> DAG
- removal of a Pi
- DAG —> TAG
- Addition of Acyl group
Glycerol 3-Phosphate acyl transferase does what?
- Adds a Carbonyl/Acyl group to a glycerol 3-P molecule making the lysophosphatidic acid
- Lyso means it only has 1 acyl group
- The other group is an OH and the phosphate
What enzyme adds a second acyl group onto lysophosphatidic acids?
What would the product be?
Lysophosphatidic acid acyl transferase
Phosphatidic Acid
What acyltransferase acylates DHAP in TAG synth?
DHAP acyltransferase
What enzyme oxdizes acyldihydroxyacetone phosphate?
- Psych
- This enzyme reduces it - produces an NADP+
- Acyldihydroxyacetone Phosphate reductase
What enzyme catalyzes the reaction of PA to DAG?
What “mechanism” does it use?
Phosphatidate phosphatase (or phosphatidic)
Hydrolyzes the phosphate
What enzyme catalyzes DAG —> TAG?
DAGAT
Diacylglycerate acyltransferase
What are all the acyltransferases in the Major and Minor Pathways of TAG synthesis?
- Major
- Glycerol 3-P acyltransferase
- Minor
- DHAP acyltransferase
- Major and Minor - both meet at Lysophosphatidic Acid
- Lysophosphatidic Acyltransferase
- Diacylglycerate acyltransferase
What are the non acyltransferases in TAG synth?
- Major
- DHAP –> Glycerol 3-P…some sort of reductase
- Minor
- AcylDHAP Reductase
- Both
- Phosphatidic Phosphatase
During fasting - does the body overcompensate by producing fatty acids form fat cells?
During fasting - glycerol production is [] via glycolytic intermediates, but requires [] …?
Yes
Not, Glyceroneogenesis
What are the 3 ways to utilize fatty acids for energy?
- Hydrolysis of Acyl groups from TAG
- Lipid Transport
- Deriving energy from fatty acids (B-Ox for example)
- Acyl groups hydrolysis from glycerol lipids is catalyzed by []
- [] are specfic for the lipid species and acyl position
- Adipose cells utilizes [] responsive lipases
- Any remaining glycerol is transported to the [] to be converted to []
- lipases
- Lipases
- hormone
- liver, DHAP
What are the 3 types of lipids that are transported…and how is each transported?
- TAG
- PLP - plasma lipoproteins
- Fatty Acids
- Sereum Albumin (non covalent interactions)
- Ketone Bodies
- aqueous soluble…no transporter necessary
What are the 3 lipid transport pathways?
- Dietary Pathway
- Liver Pathway
- Fat Cell Pathway