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. 1966 Nov;101(2):308–316. doi: 10.1042/bj1010308

The biosynthesis of glycerides by mitochondria from rat liver

The requirement for a soluble protein

Margaret E Smith 1, G Hübscher 1
PMCID: PMC1270110  PMID: 4290720

Abstract

1. The synthesis of glycerides from l-3-glycerophosphate and palmitic acid by mitochondrial preparations from rat liver was shown to be stimulated markedly by a soluble factor from the supernatant fraction of the liver. 2. That the soluble factor was a protein was indicated by its inactivation after treatment with papain and after boiling for 3min. at 100°, its precipitation by ammonium sulphate and its behaviour on Sephadex G-200. The soluble factor was purified by ammonium sulphate fractionation and gel filtration. 3. Bovine serum albumin and lipoprotein fractions from rat and human serum also stimulated glyceride biosynthesis but the stimulations were one-twentieth to one-third of that obtained with the soluble factor. 4. The function of the soluble factor could not be explained by assuming a leakage of acyl-CoA synthetase, phosphatidate phosphatase or diglyceride acyltransferase from the mitochondria into the supernatant during preparation of the mitochondrial fraction. 5. Palmitic acid, in the presence of the soluble factor and optimum amounts of ATP and CoA, was a more effective substrate than palmitoyl-CoA or palmitoylcarnitine for the biosynthesis of glycerides by mitochondria.

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