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. 1980 Apr 15;188(1):193–199. doi: 10.1042/bj1880193

Effects of glucose and insulin on the activation of lipoprotin lipase and on protein-synthesis in rat adipose tissue.

S M Parkin, K Walker, P Ashby, D S Robinson
PMCID: PMC1162555  PMID: 6996676

Abstract

Glucose, and certain sugars that can readily be converted to glucose 6-phosphate, bring about an activation of adipose-tissue lipoprotein lipase when epididymal fat-bodies from starved rats are incubated in the presence of cycloheximide. Other substrates do not support the activation. If the tissue is preincubated in the presence of cycloheximide for longer than 2h, the ability of added glucose to activate the enzyme is lost. On the other hand, the addition of glucose still brings about an increase in lipoprotein lipase activity after preincubation in the absence of cycloheximide for as long as 4h. The magnitude of the increase in enzyme activity brought about by the addition of glucose is increased when protein synthesis is stimulated during the preincubation period by insulin. The results are interpreted in terms of the existence in adipose tissue of a proenzyme pool of lipoprotein lipase that is normally maintained by protein synthesis and that is converted to complete enzyme of higher specific activity by a process that specifically requires glucose.

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