Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 11, 48-53, January 1970
Copyright © 1970 by Lipid Research, Inc.

Influence of heparin on the removal of serum lipoprotein lipase by the perfused liver of the rat

Chikayuki Naito and James M. Felts

The Cardiovascular Research Institute and the Department of Physiology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94122

Isolated rat livers were perfused with whole rat blood containing postheparin lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity. LPL activity disappeared rapidly from the perfusate; the extraction ratio (portal vein-hepatic vein difference) was 0.70 for all time periods studied. Control experiments established that the disappearance of LPL was not due to non-specific inactivation in the apparatus or to the release of an inhibitory by the liver. The addition of heparin to the perfusate in suitable concentration (4 units/ml) almost completely blocked the disappearance of LPL activity from the perfusate. In addition to the perfusion experiments, we studied the effect of heparin on LPL activity when added to the LPL assay system. When heparin was added to the assay system containing fresh postheparin serum from rats, it stimulated LPL activity by about 70%. When heparin was added to postheparin serum which had been perfused through the liver, it stimulated LPL activity over 200%, but it did not restore LPL to its preperfusion value. These observations are compatible with a two-step inactivation system for LPL by the liver. The first step may involve a dissociation of a heparin-apoenzyme complex followed by destruction of the heparin. The second step may involve the removal of the apoenzyme of LPL.

Supplementary key words lipoprotein lipase • heparin-apoenzyme complex • LPL inactivation • postheparin • inhibition • stimulation

Submitted on March 26, 1969
Accepted on October 1, 1969

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