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Cultured mouse (J774.1) macrophages accumulated triacylglycerol, but no cholesteryl ester or cholesterol, when incubated in albumin-poor medium with serum-activated lipid particles containing 84 mol% trioleoylglycerol and 9 mol% cholesteryl oleate. Accumulation of triacylglycerol by cells was associated with hydrolysis of particulate triacylglycerol to fatty acid and glycerol. Both acyl and glyceryl moieties of particulate triacylglycerol were recovered in cellular triacylglycerol with a molar ratio of 3.6. The cells also accumulated fatty acid and monoacylglycerol. Whether acylglycerol was taken up as a single molecular species, such as monoacylglycerol, or as several species can not be determined by the present findings. Macrophages incubated with lipid particles for 24 h had many lipid particles attached to cell surfaces and numerous intracellular lipid droplets. The surface film of attached particles was continuous with the outer leaflet of plasma membrane of the cells. Particles partially depleted of core triacylglycerol and collapsed surface films were found attached to surfaces of macrophages. There was no morphological evidence that lipid particles were taken up intact by cells, through endocytosis or phagocytosis. Macrophages incubated with lipid particles also contained intracellular lamellar structures. They varied in size and shape, and were located in the periphery of cells, sometimes near lipid droplets and endoplasmic reticulum. Only 3% of the lamellar structures were associated with lysosomes, indicating they probably were not of lysosomal origin. Lipid particles attached to cells decreased in size and number, and lamellar structures developed at the surface of particles, or replaced the particles, when glutaraldehyde-fixed specimens were incubated at 25° C, demonstrating lipolytic activity at the surface of macrophages. Our findings suggest that particulate triacylglycerol was hydrolyzed by lipoprotein lipase at the surface of macrophages, and that fatty acid and monoacylglycerol formed by lipolysis were transported directly into the cells to be reesterified. When lipolytic products were taken up faster than they could be utilized, they accumulated as lamellar structures in the cells.
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- α MEM:
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Eagle's alpha modification of minimum essential medium
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Blanchette-Mackie, E.J., Briggs, T., Chernick, S.S. et al. Lipolysis of serum-activated triacylglycerol at the surface of J774.1 macrophages. Cell Tissue Res. 244, 95–105 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00218386
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