Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 24, 775-780, Copyright © 1983 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Lipoprotein lipase: size of the functional unit determined by radiation inactivation

AS Garfinkel, ES Kempner, O Ben-Zeev, J Nikazy, SJ James and MC Schotz

Radiation inactivation was used to determine the functional molecular weight of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in rat heart and adipose tissues. This technique reveals the size of the smallest unit required to carry out the enzyme function. Supernatant fractions of the tissue homogenates were exposed to high energy electrons at -135 degrees C. LPL activity showed a simple exponential decay in all samples tested. Because changes in nutritional state shift the distribution of LPL between the capillary endothelial and parenchymal cells within heart and adipose tissues, fasted and refed rats were used for the radiation studies. The functional molecular weight was calculated to be 127,000 +/- 15,000 (mean +/- SD) daltons for heart and adipose. Thus, the smallest unit required for enzyme function was the same in both of these tissues and did not vary with nutritional state. The data suggest that, compared with LPL monomer sizes reported in the range 55,000 to 72,000, this active unit constitutes a dimer.
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