GI3 Flashcards
What occurs to proteins in the stomach?
Partly denatured and hydrolyzed by pepsin
Proteins and polypeptides
What is required for the breakdown of proteins and polypeptides to oligopeptides and amino acids in the small intestine?
Pepsin’s
Pancreatic polypeptides
How are oligopeptides reabsorbed across the intestinal wall
Oligopeptides have to be broken down by animopeptidases and oligopeptidases in the brush border to make tri- and di- peptides
Tri and di peptides are absorbed with the H+ gradient
Tertiary transport
How are amino acids absorbed in the intestinal lumen?
With sodium gradient
Secondary active transport
Amino acids are important precursors to?
Serotonin (tryptophan)
Melatonin (tryptophan->serotonin)
Dopamine (tyrosine)
Histamine (histidine)
What are peptides? What are important physiological peptides?
Short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds
Oxytocin
ADH
Bradykinin
Angiotensin II
What are important polypeptides?
Gastrin
CCK
Glucagon
ANP
What occurs in the duodenum to breakdown lipid droplets and increase surface area
Emulsification by bile acids
What is the structure of bile acids?
Sterol ring with amino acid side chain
Amphiphatic
What enzyme partially digests lipids in the stomach?
Gastric lipase
After emulsification, what enzyme is required to breakdown lipids further? What does it produce?
Pancreatic lipase
Triglycerides -> free fatty acid and monoglycerides
How are free fatty acids and monoglycerides absorbed across the intestinal wall?
FFA, monoglycerides, and vitamins form mixed micelles
Micelles are absorbed by enterocytes
Go to ER for re-esterification (MAG+free fatty acid=TAG)
Triglycerides are surrounded by phospholipid =chylomicrons which are excocytosed into the lymphatic vessels
(Bile acids are reabsorbed at the ileum
How does short chain fatty acid absorption differ from long chan?
Can be absorbed across the apical membrane directly (do not required micelle)
Do not have to be resynthesized to TAG -> directly released to portal system where they bind albumin
How is lipid digestion controlled?
CCK synthesized when lipids enter duodenum
-> stimulates bile acid secretion and pancreatic enzyme secretion
Secretin-> stimulates HCO3 secretion from pancreas
What happens to TAGs at skeletal muscle and adipose tissue
Lipoprotein lipase in capillaries converts TAG -> FFA and MAG
FFA enter muscle cells or adipocytes
Storage
Muscle makes glycerol
Adipose tissue makes TAG
What occurs to the remnants of chylomicrons?
Liver absorbs components in receptor-mediated endocytosis
What are fatty acids used for?
Energy
Structural :phospholipid and glycolipid
Hormone precursors : prostaglandin
Energy reserve :TAG in adipose tissue
De-novo synthesis of fatty acids occurs in the liver, mammary gland, and adipose cells. Describe the process
Carbohydrates and proteins –> ACoA –> malonyl CoA–> Palmitate (fully saturated fatty acid)
Stored as mono-, di- and triacylglycerols
Mobilization of fats from their storage tissue requires what enzyme?
Hormone-sensitive lipase (stimulated by epi and glucagon )
____________________ of fatty acid produces AcetylCoA, NADH, FADH2
B oxidation
1 palmtoyl CoA can produce ______ATP
131 (minus 2 needed) = net 129ATP
Excess Acetyl CoA can be converted in the liver to ketone bodies, what are the three ketone bodies?
Acetoacetate
Acetone
3-hydroxybutyrate
Can be used in for energy in peripheral tissues-> converted back to Acetyl CoA -> Krebs cycle
Reabsorption of water in the intestine is highest in the ________________ and lowest in the _______________
Jejunum; colon
How is Na+ absorbed in the intestines?
Apical:
Na/H+ exchanger
Na/Glucose cotransporter
Na/Amino acid cotransporter
Basolaterally
Na/K+ ATPase
How is K+ absorbed in the small intestine?
Paracellular
How is Ca2+ reabsorbed in the intestine?
Calcitoriol (PTH stimulates release from the kidney)
- > increase apical Ca2+ channels
- > increase Calbindin-synthesis
- > increase Ca2+ ATPase (basolateral)