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. 1975 Feb;146(2):481–488. doi: 10.1042/bj1460481

The clearing-factor lipase activity of isolated fat-cells.

A Cryer, P Davies, E R Williams, D S Robinson
PMCID: PMC1165327  PMID: 808220

Abstract

1. When fat-cells are isolated from the epididymal adipose tissue of 24h-starved rats and incubated at 25 degrees C in the presence of dialysed serum, glucose, insulin, amino acids and heparin, the total clearing-factor lipase acitivity of the incubation system increases progressively over a period of several hours. 2. All of the increase in activity is accounted for by the appearance of enzyme in the appearance of enzyme in the incubation medium and the fat-cell activity does not change significantly. Cycloheximids, at a concentration that prevents protein synthesis, does not affect the appearance of enzyme in the incubation medium, but the fat-cell enzyme activity is decreased in its presence. 3. The magnitude of the increase in total clearing factor lipase activity is unaffected by the omission of heparin from the medium. However, less enzyme is extracted in tis absence and the fat-cell activity increases. Cycloheximide again only affects the rise in cell activity and does not alter the activity in the incubation medium. 4. When serum in the incubation medium is replaced by casein, the distribution of enzyme between the cells and the medium is changed, but the magnitudes of the increases in total enzyme activity are similar. 5. These characteristics of the clearing-factor lipase response of isolated fat-cells differ in several respects from those observed earlier with intact adipose tissue from 24h-starved rats (Robinson & Wing, 1971; Cryer et al., 1973). The differences could be due, in part, to changes in the relative amounts of two different molecular forms of the enzyme that occur during the isolation of the fat-cells.

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