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Lipid Metabolism
Introduction
• Lipids is insoluble in polar solvent and have good solubility in
non-polar solvent
• Lipids has hydrocarbon chain and ester group
• Lipids classified as simple and complex lipids
• Lipid composed by ester of fatty acid
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Lipid Metabolism
Introduction
• The main function of lipids :
- Energy storage
- Structural components of cell membranes
- As important signalling molecules
• Oxidation of lipids are produced more energy than the
oxidation of carbohydrates
• Humans have fat tissue under the skin, in the abdominal
cavity, and in the mammary gland
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Overview of Lipid Metabolism
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Lipid Digestion Lipid Catabolism
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01 Lipid Digestion
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Digestion of Lipids
Emulsification of Fats
Fatty acids can be liberated by simple hydrolysis of the ester
bonds in triglycerides, but the insolubility of the triglycerides
presents a problem; digestion occurs following dispersion of
dietary fat into small particles with sufficiently exposed surface
area for rapid attack by digestive enzymes. This is achieved by
detergent action and mechanical mixing, with the detergent effect
being supplied by several components, both in the diet and in the
digestive juices, but especially by partially digested fats (fatty acid
soaps and monacylglycerols) and by bile salts.
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Digestion of Lipids
Emulsification of Fats
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Digestion of Lipids
Emulsification of Fats
The bile salts such as cholic acid contain a hydrophobic side and a
hydrophilic side, this allowing bile salts to dissolve at an oil-water
interface, with the hydrophobic surface in contact with the nonpolar
phase and the hydrophilic surface in the aqueous medium. This
detergent action emulsifies fats and yields mixed micelles, which
allow attack by water-soluble digestive enzymes and facilitate the
absorption of lipids through the intestinal mucosa. Mixed Micelles also
serve as transport vehicles for those lipids that are less water-
soluble than fatty acids, such as cholesterol or the fat-soluble
vitamins A, D, E, and K. Thus, efficient absorption of lipids depends on
the presence of sufficient bile acids to solubilize the ingested lipids.
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Digestion of Lipids
Digestion of Fats
The emulsification of fats render them susceptible to hydrolysis by
enzymes secreted by the pancreas. The most important enzyme
involved is pancreatic lipase. Pancreatic lipase is virtually specific
for the hydrolysis of primary ester linkages, the 1 or the 3 ester bonds,
but not the bond in the central 2 position (see below). As a result of this
conversion, 2-monoglycerides (2-monoacylglycerols) are major end-
products of triglyceride digestion. Less than 10% of triglycerides
remain unhydrolyzed in the intestine.
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Digestion of Lipids
Digestion of Fats
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Digestion of Lipids
Control of Fat Digestion
Initial products of digestion (e.g., free fatty acids) stimulates
release by the duodenum of the 33 amino acid peptide hormone
pancreozymin-cholecystokinin (PCCK). The cholecystokinin
(CCK) activity induces emptying of the gallbladder, thuleading to
increased concentration of bile salts and other bile constituents
in the intestine, including cholesterol and phospholipids. The
pancreozymin (PZ) activitcauses release of pancreatic digestive
enzymes, including pancreatic lipase.
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Absorption of Lipids
Short-chain fatty acids (up to 12 carbons) are absorbed
directly through the villi of the intestinal mucosa. They enter
the blood via capillaries thaeventually empty into the portal vein
and are transported via lipid carrier proteins directly to the liver,
where they are used for energy production. 2-Monoglycerides,
long-chain fatty acids (more than 12 carbons), cholesterol and
lysophospholipidsabsorbed from the lumen by intestinal
mucosal cells, where they are incorporated into lipoproteins
and directed to the lymphatic system.
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Absorption of Lipids
Within the intestinal wall, the triglyceride are
resynthesized by the 2-monoacylglycerol pathway
as shown on the right. The 2-monoacylglycerol
pathway is unique for the intestine. Triglycerides,
having been synthesized in the intestinal mucosa,
aren’t transported to any extent in the portal venous
blood. Instead, the great majority of absorbed
lipids, including triglycerides, phospholipids,
cholesterol esters, and cholesterol, appear in the
form of chylomicrons that pass to the lymphatic
vessels of the abdominal region and later to the
systemic blood (Lipoprotein metabolism)
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Lipoproteins
• TGs, cholesterol and cholesterol esters
are insoluble in water and cannot be
transported in blood or lymph as free
molecules
• These lipids assemble with phospholipids
and apoproteins (apolipoproteins) to
form spherical particles called
lipoproteins with:
- Hydrophobic cores : TGs, cholesteryl
esters
- Hydrophilic surfaces : cholesterol,
phospholipids, apolipoproteins
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Summary of Lipoproteins Metabolism
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02 Lipid Catabolism
01 Fat catabolism (lipolysis)
02 Β-Oxidation of Fatty Acids
03 Other Oxidations of Fatty Acids
04 Ketone Bodies Formation and Utilization
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Fat Catabolism (Lipolysis)
Fat mobilization :
The triacylglycerol stored in the
adipocytes are hydrolyzed by lipases,
to produce free fatty acids (FFA) and
glycerol, which are released to the
blood, this process is called fat
mobilization
The fatty acids thus released
diffusively from the adipocyte into
the blood, where they bind to the
serum albumin
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Fat Catabolism (Lipolysis)
• Hormone sensitive lipase (HSL) : TG lipase is the rate-limiting
enzyme in the TG degradation in adipose tssie. Its also named HSL
because its regulated by some hormones.
• Effect of hormones on lipolysis
Lipolytic Hormones :
-Epinephrine
-Norepinephrine
-Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
-Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)
-Glucagon
Antilipolytic hormone :
-Insulin
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Glycerol Metabolism
• Place : liver, kidney, intestine
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β -Oxidation of Fatty Acids
• Fatty acids are one of the main energy materials of human and
other mammalian
• Fatty acid catabolism can be subdivided into 3 stages
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β -Oxidation of Fatty Acids
Stage 1. Activation of FAs
Acyl-CoA Synthetase (Thiokinase) which locates on the cytoplasm,
catalyzes the activation of long chain fatty acids
Key points of FA activation : irreversible, consume 2~P, site:cytosol
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β -Oxidation of Fatty Acids
Stage 2. Transport of acyl CoA into the mitochondria
(rate-limiting step)
Carrier : carnitine
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β -Oxidation of Fatty Acids
Stage 2. Transport of acyl CoA into the mitochondria
(rate-limiting step)
Rate-limiting enzyme
- Carnitine acyltransferase I
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β-Oxidation of Fatty Acids
Stage 3. β-oxidation of FAs
Β-oxidation means β-C reaction
4 steps in one round :
Step 1: Dehydrogenate
Step 2: Hydration
Step 3: Dehydrogenate
Step 4: Thiolytic cleavage
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Step 1. Dehydrogenate
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Step 2. Hydration
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Step 3. Dehydrogenate
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Step 3. Thyolytic Cleavage
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β-Oxidation of Fatty Acids
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The β-Oxidation pathway is cyclic
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β-Oxidation summary
One cycle :
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Other Oxidations of Fatty Acids
1. Oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids
2. Peroximal fatty acid oxidation
3. Oxidation of propionyl-CoA
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Utilization of Ketone Bodies
at Extrahepatic Tissues
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Biological Significance
• Ketone bodies replace glucose as the major source of energy for many
tissues especially the brain, heart and muscles during times of
prolonged starvation
• Normal physiological responses to carbohydrate shortages cause the
liver to increase the production of ketone bodies from the acetyl-CoA
generated from fatty acid oxidation
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