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Lipoprotein lipase binding to adipocytes: evidence for the presence of a heparin-sensitive binding protein

A. Sasaki, P. Sivaram and I. J. Goldberg
Department of Medicine and Specialized Center of Research in Arteriosclerosis, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.

Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is synthesized by adipocytes, associated with the cell surface, and released from the cells when they are treated with heparin. Release of LPL from the adipocyte is required for LPL to migrate to its physiological site of action on the luminal surface of capillary endothelial cells. To better understand this process, we studied the interaction of LPL with adipocyte cell membrane proteins. With the use of a ligand blot method, LPL specifically bound to a heparin-releasable, 116-kDa protein on mouse-derived brown fat adipose cell (BFC-1 beta) and rat adipocyte membranes. A 116-kDa cell surface protein was metabolically labeled with [35S]methionine and bound to LPL-Sepharose. This suggested that the LPL-binding protein was synthesized by the cells. When BFC-1 beta were treated with heparin to eliminate heparin-sensitive cell surface binding sites, LPL binding to the cells decreased and release of newly synthesized LPL activity increased. 125I-labeled LPL binding to control cells was reduced (> 70%) by a 50-fold excess of unlabeled LPL. The residual LPL binding to heparin-treated cells was, however, not decreased by the addition of unlabeled LPL. These data imply that specific adipocyte surface LPL binding involves heparin-sensitive sites. We hypothesize that the heparin-releasable, 116-kDa LPL-binding protein mediates specific LPL binding to adipocytes and that LPL activity within adipose tissue is regulated, in part, by the interaction of LPL with this binding protein.

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