PMID: 6403031Mar 23, 1983Paper

Effect of fatty acid deficiency on microsomal membrane fluidity and cooperativity of the UDP-glucuronyltransferase

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
C E Castuma, R R Brenner

Abstract

The effect of fat deprivation on microsomal membrane fluidity of guinea-pig livers and the kinetic cooperativity of UDP-glucuronyl transferase towards its natural substrate, the UDP-glucuronic acid, were studied. Fat deprivation in the diet of weanling guinea-pigs evoked a typical essential fatty-acid-deficient pattern in the composition of the microsomal membrane. The unsaturated:saturated fatty acid ratio progressively declined in the membrane during the 21-day period tested. This decline determined a gradual increase in the fluorescence anisotropy (rs) of the membrane labeled with diphenylhexatriene and the apparent microviscosity of the lipid bilayer calculated from these values increased from 1.1 to 1.8 poise. In addition, when the infinitely slow decaying fluorescence anisotropy ((r infinity), which is proportional to the square of the lipid order parameter, was calculated from rs data, a significant increase in these parameters was also obtained. Furthermore, this decrease of the double bond index:saturated acid ratio of the membrane was associated with a parallel increase in Hill coefficients of the UDP-glucuronyl transferase that gradually lost the negative homotropic effect and cooperativity of UDP-glucuronic acid. Th...Continue Reading

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