Cellular Lipid Binding Proteins

Front Matter....Pages i-1
Cellular lipid binding proteins as facilitators and regulators of lipid metabolism....Pages 3-7
Critical steps in cellular fatty acid uptake and utilization....Pages 9-15
Mechanism of cellular uptake of long-chain fatty acids: Do we need cellular proteins?....Pages 17-23
Similar mechanisms of fatty acid transfer from human anal rodent fatty acid-binding proteins to membranes: Liver, intestine, heart muscle, and adipose tissue FABPs....Pages 25-33
Cytosolic fatty acid binding proteins catalyze two distinct steps in intracellular transport of their ligands....Pages 35-43
Insights into binding of fatty acids by fatty acid binding proteins....Pages 45-54
The effect of charge reversal mutations in the α-helical region of liver fatty acid binding protein on the binding of fatty-acyl CoAs, lysophospholipids and bile acids....Pages 55-60
Solution structure of fatty acid-binding protein from human brain....Pages 61-68
Evolution of the family of intracellular lipid binding proteins in vertebrates....Pages 69-77
Intracellular lipid binding proteins of the small intestine....Pages 79-82
Analysis on the phenotype of E-FABP-gene knockout mice....Pages 83-86
Sterol carrier protein-2: Not just for cholesterol any more....Pages 87-93
Fatty acid binding protein expression in different human adipose tissue depots in relation to rates of lipolysis and insulin concentration in obese individuals....Pages 95-100
Protein acylation in the cardiac muscle like cell line, H9c2....Pages 101-112
Alternative lipid mobilization: The insect shuttle system....Pages 113-119
Giant membrane vesicles as a model to study cellular substrate uptake dissected from metabolism....Pages 121-130
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors: Lipid binding proteins controling gene expression....Pages 131-138
New insights into the fatty acid-binding protein (FABP) family in the small intestine....Pages 139-147
Regulation of the ileal bile acid-binding protein gene: An approach to determine its physiological function(s)....Pages 149-155
Role of adipocyte lipid-binding protein (ALBP) and acyl-CoA binding protein (ACBP) in PPAR-mediated transactivation....Pages 157-164
Analysis of tissue-specific and PPARα-dependent induction of FABP gene expression in the mouse liver by an in vivo DNA electroporation method....Pages 165-172
Characterization of a new fatty acid response element that controls the expression of the locust muscle FABP gene....Pages 173-180
Regulation of fatty acid transport and membrane transporters in health and disease....Pages 181-192
The impact of overexpression and deficiency of fatty acid translocase (FAT)/CD36....Pages 193-197
Intestinal lipid absorption is not affected in CD36 deficient mice....Pages 199-202
Surface expression of fatty acid translocase (FAT/ CD36) on platelets in myeloproliferative disorders and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: Effect on arachidonic acid uptake....Pages 203-211
Sulfo- N -succinimidyl esters of long chain fatty acids specifically inhibit fatty acid translocase (FAT/CD36)-mediated cellular fatty acid uptake....Pages 213-219
Ex-FABP, extracellular fatty acid binding protein, is a stress lipocalin expressed during chicken embryo development....Pages 221-225
Plasma concentration of intestinal- and liver-FABP in neonates suffering from necrotizing enterocolitis and in healthy preterm neonates....Pages 227-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-240