Quantitative changes in adipocyte plasma membrane in response to nutritional manipulations

Journal Article · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981 · J. Lipid Res.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5394093

Lewis, D S; Masoro, E J; Yu, B P

The effects of changes in adipocyte size and the effects of nutritional manipulations on the quantity of plasma membrane per adipocyte were investigated. A method for estimating the quantity of plasma membrane was developed based on the specific labeling of adipocyte plasma membrane protein with the nonpermeable labeling agent 125I-labeled diazotized diiodosulfanilic acid. By studying rats (ranging in age from 50 to 125 days) fed a standard laboratory chow or a low fat diet or a high fat diet, a wide range of mean fat cell sizes was obtained. It was found that as the volume of the fat cell increased, the amount of plasma membrane increased in a linear fashion and that this linear relationship had the same slope whether the size of the adipocyte increased slowly with age or rapidly in response to a high fat diet. In contrast, fasting for up to 3 days caused a marked decrease in the mean volume of the adipocytes, but either no change or much less change in the amount of plasma membrane per cell than would have been predicted from the linear relationship between adipocytes, but either no change or much less change in the amount of plasma membrane per cell than would have been predicted form the linear relationship between adipocyte volume and amount of plasma membrane per cell obtained with fed rats, i.e., adipocytes from fasted rats contain more plasma membrane per cell than do fat cells of the same size from fed rats. Neither feeding a high fat diet nor fasting caused detectable changes in the protein and lipid composition of the adipocyte plasma membrane.

• Research Organization: Department of Physiology, the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
• OSTI ID: 5394093
• Journal Information: J. Lipid Res.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Lipid Res.; (United States) Vol. 22:7; ISSN JLPRA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
AMINES
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CELL CONSTITUENTS
CELL MEMBRANES
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ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC SULFUR COMPOUNDS
RADIOISOTOPES
SOMATIC CELLS
SULFANILIC ACID
SULFONIC ACIDS
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