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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 12, 553-562, September 1971
Copyright © 1971 by Lipid Research, Inc.

Studies on the hormone-sensitive lipase of adipose tissue

Joan P. Schwartz and Robert L. Jungas

Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Sucrose gradient centrifugation has been used to examine the triglyceride lipases present in extracts of rat epididymal adipose tissue. The aqueous infranatant recovered between the pellet and fat cake of tissue homogenates which had been centrifuged at 40,000 g was shown to contain two types of triglyceride lipase activity. One of these appears in the 15s region and has been identified as the active form of the "hormone-sensitive lipase" believed to be responsible for initiating the hydrolysis of tissue triglyceride stores in response to lipolytic stimuli. The activity of this enzyme was selectively increased in extracts prepared from tissue exposed to epinephrine and decreased in extracts of insulin-treated tissue. The increased lipolytic activity of extracts of tissue from fasted or fasted-refed rats was also found largely in this region. When the tissue was incubated with orthophosphate-³²P, radioactivity was incorporated into a protein migrating at 15s.

A second peak of triglyceride lipase activity appeared in the 6s region coincident with the location of the monoglyceride and diglyceride lipase activities. The amount of 6s triglyceride lipase activity did not correlate with changes in the lipolytic activity of the tissue from which the extracts were prepared, and its physiological function remains to be elucidated. The lipoprotein lipase and the short-chain triglyceride lipase ("tributyrinase") each moved more slowly in the gradient than the 6s triglyceride lipase. Both the 6s and 15s enzymes were shown to be present in washed adipocytes isolated from the tissue by collagenase digestion.

Supplementary key words epinephrine • lipolysis • insulin • fasting • adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate • lipoprotein lipase • free fatty acids

Submitted on November 16, 1970
Accepted on May 14, 1971

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