Diet fat influences liver plasma-membrane lipid composition and glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity

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Rats were fed diets that differed in fatty acid composition or in the proportion of energy derived from fat to determine if alteration of dietary fat intake influences the structural lipid composition of liver plasma membrane and the expression of an associated hormone-receptor-mediated function. Weanling rats were fed 9% (wt/wt) or 20% (wt/wt) low-erucic acid rapeseed oil or 9% (wt/wt) soybean oil for 24 days. Plasma membranes were isolated and the effect of diet fat on the fatty acid composition of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinositol and sphingomyelin was determined. Diet fat significantly altered total saturated and (.omega.-9) and (.omega.-6)-unsaturated fatty acid composition in addition to the (.omega.-6)- to (.omega.-3)-unsaturated fatty acid ratio in these polar lipids. Feeding the high-fat diet increased the (.omega.-6)- to (.omega.-3)-unsaturated fatty acid ratio and the (.omega.-9)-unsaturated fatty acid content in all lipids except sphingomyelin. Assay of glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity at both high and low glucagon concentrations indicated that high-fat intake also decreased cAMP formation. In a 2nd experiment the fat intake was held constant (40% of energy) and oleic acid was substituted for linoleic acid by blending high- and low-linolenic acid-type safflower oils. This experiment established that a dose-response relationship exists between dietary intake of fatty acid and the fatty acid composition of plasma-membrane phospholipids. Specific diet-induced transitions in membrane phospholipid fatty acid composition were paralleled by changes in glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity. Transitions in dietary fat intake can alter a hormone-receptor-mediated enzyme function in vivo by changing the surrounding lipid environment.

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