Lecture 25 Flashcards
What are the two mechanisms for removal of LDL from plasma?
- Mediated by an LDL receptor
- Receptor for oxidized LDL (scavenger receptor)
Chylomicrons
Carry diet-derived lipids to body cells
VLDLs
Carry lipids synthesized by the liver to body cells
LDLs
Carry cholesterol around the body
HDLs
Carry cholesterol from the body back to the liver for breakdown and excretion
What state are these aggregates in within circulation?
State of constant flux, changing in composition and physical structure as the peripheral tissues take up the various components before the remnants return to the liver
What are the beneficial metabolic consequences of bariatric surgery?
Sodium is a key factor; gastric bypass decreases the amount of sodium normally brought into the intestine with bile (impairs intestinal glucose uptake via sodium-glucose cotransport)
How is the alimentary limb impacted with gastric bypass?
- SGLT1
- Low sodium
- With gastric bypass, the bile, and hence the sodium, is deprived
- Sodium-glucose co-transport is blunted in bile-deprived alimentary limb
What limb is glucose absorbed in with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass?
Common limb: sodium-glucose co-transport
How does sodium addition impact glucose uptake in the alimentary limb?
Sodium addition restores glucose uptake
How does Roux-en-Y gastric bypass impact postprandial glucose response?
Decreases
Choleresis
Liver cells secrete bile that contains bile salts, cholesterol, lecithin, bilirubin, electrolytes, and water (bile salts emulsify fats)
Colipase
Amphipathic protein makes fat droplets covered with emulsifying agents accessible to water soluble lipase
Lipase
Breaks down triglycerides
Fat Droplet
division of large droplets into smaller emulsion droplets (~1mm to increase the surface area and accessibility to lipase action) occurs by mechanical disruption of contractile activity of lower portion of stomach
Explain the digestion and assimilation of dietary fats in the lumen of small intestine.
- Fat Droplets
- Bile salts, phospholipids
- Colipase: emulsion droplets
- Bile salts, pancreatic lipase
- Micelles
- Free molecules of fatty acids and monoglycerides
Explain the digestion and assimilation of dietary fats in the epithelial cell.
- Free molecules of fatty acids and monoglycerides diffuse into epithelial cells
- Triglyceride synthetic enzymes in ER
- Droplets of triglyceride enclosed by membrane from the ER coated with amphipathic proteins
- Lacteal: chylomicron
What molecules carry fat from intestine to liver via general circulation?
Chylomicrons (triglycerides, phospholipids, cholesterol, apolipoproteins)
Lipoproteins
Assembled in enterocytes and hepatocytes and constantly modified as they circulate, transport cholesterol and other lipids between tissue
What mediates binding of lipoproteins to receptors in tissues?
Apoproteins/ apolipoproteins
Apoproteins
- Synthesized and secreted by many tissues (liver and intestines)
- Determine: overall structures, interactions with receptor molecules, metabolism of lipoproteins in liver and peripheral tissues
What is the lipoprotein associated with apoprotein A-I?
HDL, chylomicrons
What is the source of apoprotein A-I?
Liver, intestine
What is the biological role of apoprotein A-I?
Activates lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase in HDL
What is the lipoprotein associated with apoprotein B-48?
Chylomicrons
What is the source of apoprotein B-48?
Intestine
What is the biological role of apoprotein B-48?
Serves as structural protein for chylomicrons
What is the lipoprotein associated with apoprotein B-100?
VLDL, LDL
What is the source of apoprotein B-100?
Liver