Some properties of the fatty alcohol oxidation system and reconstitution of microsomal oxidation activity in intestinal mucosa
- 3 October 1986
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism
- Vol. 878 (3), 412-418
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-2760(86)90250-x
Abstract
This paper describes the metabolism of fatty alcohols by microsomal and cytosolic fractions from intestinal mucosa. Microsomes of rabbit intestinal mucosa had a high activity of [1-14C]dodecanol oxidation as did those of liver. The intestinal cytosolic fraction also exhibited oxidation activity to a lesser extent than the microsomes did. The reaction product was determined as lauric acid using thin-layer chroma tography. Laurylaldehyde was detected as another product, when semicarbazide was added to the incubation system. Cyclodextrins exhibited a stimulation effect similarly to bovine serum albumin on the microsomal activity. We have compared the stimulatory effects of dimethyl-β-cyclodextrin, β-cyclodextrin, γ-cyclodextrin and α-cyclodextrin, which decrease in that order. Effects of NAD+ and dodecanol concentrations, pH and pyrazole on microsomal activity were compared with those on cytosolic activity. Dodecanol oxidation activity was solubilized and reconstituted with a fatty alcohol dehydrogenase and a fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase separated from the intestinal microsomes. These findings indicate that both the dehydrogenases participate in microsomal oxidation of fatty alcohols to fatty acids with fatty aldehydes as intermediates in the reaction.Keywords
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