[Lipoproteins as a specific circulatory transport system]. 1998

V N Titov

In accordance with the systemic approach, each circulatory transport system is highly specific and transports an elementary substance from cell to cell in the hydrated medium. In the author's opinion, the lipoprotein system has also a functional specificity and carries the elementary substance fatty acid in the blood stream. A great variety of fatty acids, the individuality of their physicochemical properties, great stereochemic differences of saturated and polyenic fatty acids make their transport virtually impossible. The steric individuality of fatty acids can be reduced if the acids are covalently bonded by a matrix as complex lipids. For formation of complex lipids, nature prefers esterification of fatty acids with alcohols which have a varying hydrophoby, such as glycerol, sphingosine, cholesterol, cetyl alcohol. The steric differences of saturated and polyenic fatty acids form a basis for their being structurized in different lipids. Triacyl glycerides are a transport form of saturated, monounsaturated fatty acids and their transforms and give rise to a crystalline phase. Phospholipids and cholesterol esters are a transport form of mainly polyunsaturated fatty acids in the polar phase in the former case and in the crystalline phase in the latter one. The individual apolipoproteins structure complex lipids into individual lipoprotein particles and transport them in the hydrated medium of blood flow. Saturated fatty acids chiefly transport lipoprotein particles formed by apoB-48- and apoB-100-isoproteins. Polyenic acids transport mainly high-density apoA-1-lipoprotein particles, which makes up a main physiological function of the latter. Cholesterol is nothing more than a matrix; it reesterifies polyenic fatty acids from the polar transport form of phospholipids into the unpolar transport form of cholesterol esters. Cholesterol esterification of polyenic fatty acids may structure complex lipid in the unpolar phase and transport it to the cells via apoB-100-ligand-receptor interaction, which is considered to be a key stage in the multistage process of active transport to the cells of polyenic fatty acids. However, the significant differences of active and inactive transport of polyenic fatty acids in the blood stream await a separate consideration.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008074 Lipoproteins Lipid-protein complexes involved in the transportation and metabolism of lipids in the body. They are spherical particles consisting of a hydrophobic core of TRIGLYCERIDES and CHOLESTEROL ESTERS surrounded by a layer of hydrophilic free CHOLESTEROL; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; and APOLIPOPROTEINS. Lipoproteins are classified by their varying buoyant density and sizes. Circulating Lipoproteins,Lipoprotein,Lipoproteins, Circulating
D005227 Fatty Acids Organic, monobasic acids derived from hydrocarbons by the equivalent of oxidation of a methyl group to an alcohol, aldehyde, and then acid. Fatty acids are saturated and unsaturated (FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED). (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed) Aliphatic Acid,Esterified Fatty Acid,Fatty Acid,Fatty Acids, Esterified,Fatty Acids, Saturated,Saturated Fatty Acid,Aliphatic Acids,Acid, Aliphatic,Acid, Esterified Fatty,Acid, Saturated Fatty,Esterified Fatty Acids,Fatty Acid, Esterified,Fatty Acid, Saturated,Saturated Fatty Acids
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001693 Biological Transport, Active The movement of materials across cell membranes and epithelial layers against an electrochemical gradient, requiring the expenditure of metabolic energy. Active Transport,Uphill Transport,Active Biological Transport,Biologic Transport, Active,Transport, Active Biological,Active Biologic Transport,Transport, Active,Transport, Active Biologic,Transport, Uphill

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