scholarly journals Regulation of lipoprotein lipase activity and mRNA in the mammary gland of the lactating mouse

1994 ◽  
Vol 298 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
D R Jensen ◽  
S Gavigan ◽  
V Sawicki ◽  
D L Witsell ◽  
R H Eckel ◽  
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We examined the effects of reproductive stage and fasting on lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity and mRNA in the mouse mammary gland. Heparin-releasable and cell-associated LPL activity rose immediately after birth, followed 1-2 days later by an increase in LPL mRNA. Fasting decreased LPL activity in the mammary gland at all reproductive stages. During lactation, both milk and heparin-releasable LPL were substantially decreased by an overnight fast, whereas cell-associated LPL was less affected and LPL mRNA did not change. These studies indicate that the extracellular, heparin-releasable, fraction of mammary LPL activity responds most rapidly to alterations in physiological state, usually accompanied by smaller changes in cellular enzyme activity. Changes in the level of LPL mRNA were seen only during the transition from pregnancy to lactation, and these tended to follow, rather than precede, changes in enzyme activity. We conclude that in the mammary gland as in adipose tissue, LPL is regulated primarily at the translational and post-translational level.

1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (5) ◽  
pp. E645-E650 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Carneheim ◽  
S. E. Alexson

Induction of lipoprotein lipase activity in brown adipose tissue (BAT) in response to cold stress has earlier been shown to be regulated by a beta-adrenergic mechanism and to be dependent on mRNA synthesis. In the present study, we have investigated the acute effects of refeeding after a short starvation period and the hormonal mechanism underlying the observed effects. Refeeding was found to rapidly increase tissue wet weight and lipoprotein lipase activity. The increase in enzyme activity could be blocked by the RNA synthesis inhibitor actinomycin D, indicating a gene activation. beta-Adrenergic blockade had no effect on this elevation of enzyme activity, but the increase could be mimicked by insulin injection. The results suggest that BAT contains two different pathways for regulation of lipoprotein lipase activity, both involving mRNA synthesis.


1994 ◽  
Vol 301 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Del Prado ◽  
T H Da Costa ◽  
D H Williamson

The effect of tri-iodothyronine (T3) administration on the utilization of dietary [14C]lipid by the mammary gland and adipose tissue of lactating and litter-removed rats was studied. (1) After an oral load of [1-14C]triolein, the lactating rats treated with T3 (50 micrograms/100 g body wt.) over 24 h showed an increase in 14CO2 production and a decrease in the total [14C]lipid transferred through the mammary gland that was paralleled by a decrease in tissue lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity. (2) T3 administration decreased plasma prolactin in the lactating rats. Prolactin replacement in T3-treated rats restored LPL activity in the mammary gland, but did not increase the amount of dietary [14C]lipid transferred to the milk. (3) Chronic T3 administration (4 days) to lactating rats did not affect pup growth or the lipogenic rate in the mammary gland. (4) The administration of T3 to litter-removed rats inhibited the increase of LPL activity in white adipose tissue and decreased the accumulation of dietary [14C]lipid. This decrease was accompanied by increased 14CO2 production and [14C]lipid accumulation in skeletal muscle and heart. (5) It is concluded that hyperthyroidism depresses LPL activity in mammary gland and white adipose tissue, but not in muscle. The increased accumulation of [14C]lipid in muscle and increased production of 14CO2 in lactating and in litter-removed rats treated with T3 is in part due to the decreased total LPL in mammary gland and adipose tissue respectively, which are therefore less able to compete with muscle for the available plasma triacylglycerols.


1978 ◽  
Vol 172 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Cryer ◽  
H M Jones

The lipoprotein lipase (clearing-factor lipase) activity of the white adipose tissue from rats aged between 1 and 145 days was determined. Five adipose-tissue sites (epididymal, uterine, subcutaneous, perirenal and intramuscular) together with serum concentrations of triacylglycerol, cholesterol and glucose were studied. The pattern of enzyme-activity change was remarkably similar in all the sites studied, although the growth of the tissues proceeded non-uniformly. After a peak of activity early in suckling, lipoprotein lipase activity fell to low values by 20 days of age. At weaning (21 days) the activity increased sharply and within 5 days high values were regained. The serum triacylglycerol and cholesterol concentrations were low at birth and reached peaks of concentration coincidentally with the minima of white-adipose-tissue lipoprotein lipase activities, seen late in suckling. The changes in enzyme activity were related to other metabolic changes in adipose tissue and with the known changes in plasma insulin concentrations occurring during development.


Nutrition ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 806-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Pereira Assumpção ◽  
Flávia Duarte dos Santos ◽  
Priscila de Mattos Machado Andrade ◽  
Giselle Freire Barreto ◽  
Maria das Graças Tavares do Carmo

1977 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Péquignot-Planche ◽  
P De Gasquet ◽  
A Boulangé ◽  
N T Tonnu

The low triacylglycerol concentration in inguinal tissue of newborn rats did not change during the first 6h after birth, despite the relatively high lipoprotein lipase activity in the tissue. Subsequently triacylglycerol concentration and enzyme activity rose in parallel. The results show that lipoprotein lipase activity was present in the tissue before fat accumulation.


1989 ◽  
Vol 262 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Semb ◽  
T Olivecrona

Lipoprotein lipase activity in adipose tissue responds rapidly to changes in the physiological state. To study what mechanisms are involved in the regulation, guinea pigs were fasted and the decrease in adipose-tissue lipoprotein lipase activity was compared with the decreases in mRNA and lipase synthesis. The mRNA pattern (three species) did not change. There was a close parallelism between the abundance of lipase mRNA and relative lipase synthesis (immunoprecipitable 35S-labelled lipoprotein lipase as fraction of total [35S]protein after pulse-labelling with [35S]methionine). Total protein synthesis decreased on fasting, compounding the decrease in relative lipase synthesis. Lipoprotein lipase mRNA changed similarly in fat-pads and in isolated adipocytes, whereas lipase activity changed more in the pads, indicating disproportionally large changes in extracellularly located lipase. In old guinea pigs the decreases in lipoprotein lipase activity and lipase synthesis were comparable, but in young animals the change in lipase activity was substantially larger than the change in lipase synthesis. Refeeding of fasted young guinea pigs with glucose resulted in a rapid increase in lipoprotein lipase activity, but there was only a small change in lipase mRNA. Old animals responded slowly to refeeding. The results indicate that in older animals the major mechanism for regulation of adipose lipoprotein lipase activity is a relatively slow change in lipase mRNA, whereas in younger animals an additional, more rapid, regulation is exerted on the transport and turnover of the enzyme.


1993 ◽  
Vol 290 (2) ◽  
pp. 557-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
T H M Da Costa ◽  
D H Williamson

The effects of exogenous insulin or vanadate (an insulin mimetic) on the disposal of dietary [14C]lipid between oxidation to 14CO2, deposition in adipose tissue or uptake by mammary gland and transfer to suckling pups were studied in virgin and lactating rats. After an oral load of [1-14C]triolein, virgin rats treated with a supraphysiological dose of insulin over 24 h showed a decrease (58%) in 14CO2 production and increased accumulation of [14C]lipid in carcass and white adipose tissue. There was a 2.5-fold increase in lipoprotein lipase activity in the latter. Chronic vanadate administration (12 days) had no effect on these parameters. In lactating rats, the stimulation of the deposition of [14C]lipid in adipose tissue by exogenous insulin was about 10% of that in virgin rats. In prolactin-deficient lactating rats there was no stimulation of [14C]lipid deposition in adipose tissue by insulin. However, both insulin and vanadate treatment increased the accumulation of [14C]lipid in mammary gland to the values seen in the mammary glands plus pups of normal lactating rats. Lipoprotein lipase activity in the gland was also restored to normal values. It is concluded that in lactation there is resistance to insulin stimulation of dietary lipid deposition in adipose tissue, and that this is not due to circulating prolactin. In addition, exogenous insulin plays a role in the regulation of lipoprotein lipase and hence of dietary lipid uptake into lactating mammary gland.


1988 ◽  
Vol 252 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
R D Evans ◽  
D H Williamson

1. The effect of tumour burden on lipid metabolism was examined in virgin, lactating and litter-removed rats. 2. No differences in food intake or plasma insulin concentrations were observed between control animals and those bearing the Walker-256 carcinoma (3-5% of body wt.) in any group studied. 3. In virgin tumour-bearing animals, there was a significant increase in liver mass, blood glucose and lactate, and plasma triacylglycerol; the rate of oxidation of oral [14C]lipid to 14CO2 was diminished, and parametrial white adipose tissue accumulated less [14C]lipid compared with pair-fed controls. 4. These findings were accompanied by increased accumulation of lipid in plasma and decreased white-adipose-tissue lipoprotein lipase activity. 5. In lactating animals, tumour burden had little effect on the accompanying hyperphagia or on pup weight gain; tissue lipogenesis was unaffected, as was tissue [14C]lipid accumulation, plasma [triacylglycerol] and white-adipose-tissue and mammary-gland lipoprotein lipase activity. 6. On removal (24 h) of the litter, the presence of the tumour resulted in decreased rates of lipogenesis in the carcass, liver and white and brown adipose tissue, decreased [14C]lipid accumulation in white adipose tissue, but increased accumulation in plasma and liver, increased plasma [triacylglycerol] and decreased lipoprotein lipase activity in white adipose tissue. 7. The rate of triacylglycerol/fatty acid substrate cycling was significantly decreased in white adipose tissue of virgin and litter-removed rats bearing the tumour, but not in lactating animals. 8. These results demonstrate no functional impairment of lactation, despite the presence of tumour, and the relative resistance of the lactating mammary gland to the disturbance of lipid metabolism that occurs in white adipose tissue of non-lactating rats with tumour burden.


1978 ◽  
Vol 176 (3) ◽  
pp. 865-872 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Ashby ◽  
D P Bennett ◽  
I M Spencer ◽  
D S Robinson

Changes in adipose-tissue lipoprotein lipase activity that are independent of protein synthesis were investigated in an incubation system in vitro. Under appropriate conditions at 25 degrees C a progressive increase in the enzyme activity occurs that is energy-dependent. Part of the enzyme is rapidly inactivated when the tissue is incubated with adrenaline or adrenaline plus theophylline. The mechanism of this inactivation appears to be distinct from, and to follow, the activation of the enzyme. A hypothesis is presented to account for the results in terms of an activation of the enzyme during obligatory post-translational processing and a catecholamine-regulated inactivation of the enzyme as an alternative to secretion from the adipocyte.


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