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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 25, 389-399, Copyright © 1984 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Intestinal cholesterol esterase: intracellular enzyme or contamination of cytosol by pancreatic enzymes?

FJ Field

The location of cholesterol esterase in rabbit intestine was re- evaluated. In three different experiments that were designed to eliminate contaminating mucus and pancreatic enzymes from the lumen of the small intestine, it was observed that the activities of cholesterol esterase and amylase in intestinal cytosol and whole homogenate decreased in parallel fashion. After the mucus was carefully wiped from the intestinal mucosa prior to the preparation of cytosol, amylase and cholesterol esterase activities decreased sevenfold. The recovery of the total activity of both enzymes in the cytosol was approximately 15%. When the lumen of the small intestine was filled with phosphate buffer and incubated at 37 degrees C for 20 min, cholesterol esterase and amylase activities in the cytosol prepared from this segment were further decreased. Moreover, the activities of amylase and cholesterol esterase were completely recovered from the lumen. Amylase and cholesterol esterase activities in the cytosol were eliminated if dithiothreitol was used as a mucolytic agent to prepare intestinal mucosa for the isolation of intestinal cells. In whole homogenates prepared from these intestinal segments, approximately 10-15% of the total cholesterol esterase activity remained. This activity, which could not be accounted for by pancreatic contamination, was associated with intestinal nuclei and cellular debris. Progesterone, ethinyl estradiol, and 25-hydroxycholesterol regulated microsomal acyl CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase activity and caused similar directional changes in the rate of cholesteryl ester synthesis in isolated intestinal cells. These same sterols, however, failed to affect cytosolic cholesterol esterase activity in vitro.
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