出版社:American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要:Turnover of individual classes of cholesteryl esters (classified on the basis of the degree of unsaturation of the fatty acid moiety) in rat plasma lipoproteins and liver was studied after the administration of mevalonic acid-5-3H and mevalonic acid-2-14C. The relative turnover rate was greatest in the d saturated = dienes > tetraenes. In the d > 1.063 lipoproteins, all cholesteryl esters had slower turnover rates, but tetraenes = pentaenes > dienes > monoenes = saturated. Comparisons of specific activities of individual cholesteryl ester classes of liver subcellular fractions and lipoproteins suggest that the d In the adrenal, relative rates of synthesis of cholesteryl esters are monoenes = dienes > tetraenes > trienes = pentaenes > saturated. It is concluded that cholesteryl ester turnover in the rat, as opposed to man, is determined not only by the particular lipoprotein class but also by the fatty acid moiety of the ester.