Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 2 404-409, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Regulation of lipoprotein lipase in muscle and adipose tissue during exercise

M. J. Ladu, H. Kapsas and W. K. Palmer
Exercise Research Division, College of Kinesiology, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680.

Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is regulated in a tissue-specific manner; exercise increases LPL activity in muscle at the same time it is reduced in adipose tissue. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between LPL activity and LPL mRNA in muscle and adipose tissue in rats exposed to one bout of exercise. Immediately after a 2-h swim, LPL activity [pmol free fatty acids (FFA).min-1.mg tissue-1] in the exercised animals was reduced 43% in adipose tissue (110 +/- 26 to 63 +/- 17) and increased almost twofold in the soleus muscle (203 +/- 26 to 383 +/- 59) compared with sedentary control animals. At the same time, LPL mRNA was reduced 42% in adipose tissue and increased 50 and 100% in the red vastus and white vastus muscles, respectively. Twenty-four hours after the swim, LPL activity had returned to control levels in adipose tissue and the soleus muscle. At hour 24 of recovery, LPL mRNA was still reduced 23% in the adipose tissue of exercised animals but was not significantly different between exercised and control animals in any of the muscle tissues analyzed. Changes in total RNA concentration could not account for the changes in relative LPL mRNA expression. The relationship between LPL enzyme activity and LPL mRNA in muscle and adipose tissue was +0.86 and +0.93 at 0 and 24 h postexercise, respectively. Thus the tissue-specific changes in enzyme activity induced by exercise could be mediated, in part, through pretranslational control.

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