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-Carotene 15,15'-Dioxygenase Activity and Cellular Retinol-Binding Protein Type II Level Are Enhanced by Dietary Unsaturated Triacylglycerols in Rat Intestines
Manuscript received 2 December 1997. Initial reviews completed 29 January 1998. Revision accepted 8 June 1998.
National Food Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8642, Japan
The purpose of this study was to examine effects of dietary triacylglycerols on 
-carotene 15,15'-dioxygenase (EC 1.13.11.21) activity and cellular retinol-binding protein [CRBP (II)] in rats. Six groups of eight rats (7-wk old) were fed one of the following diets: standard (STD; 2.5% soybean oil), saturated (SFA; 15% hydrogenated soybean oil), monounsaturated (MUFA; 15% olive oil), polyunsaturated (PUFA; 15% soybean oil) or clofibrate (CLF; 2.5% soybean oil + 0.2% clofibrate) for 3 wk. The dioxygenase specific activities of the intestinal homogenates in the MUFA and PUFA groups fed the high fat diets were 2.4 times that of the STD group fed a low fat diet (P < 0.01), whereas the activities of the SFA and CLF groups were not significantly different from that of the STD group. The level of CRBP (II) in the intestine of the PUFA group was 1.3-fold that of the STD group (P < 0.05), whereas there were no significant differences among the other groups. In a second experiment, the dioxygenase activity of rat intestine was followed over 3 wk of feeding the STD and PUFA diets. After the PUFA diet was consumed for 1 d, the activity was enhanced to 2.7 times the baseline level and remained thereafter at that high level, whereas the activity of the STD group remained at the low baseline level. Thus, dietary polyunsaturated triacylglycerols enhanced both -carotene 15,15'-dioxygenase activity and CRBP (II) level in rat intestine. These results suggest that the dioxygenase and CRBP (II) are regulated by the same mechanism involving long-chain fatty acids and their metabolites.
-carotene 15,15'-dioxygenase,
cellular retinol-binding protein II,
fatty acids,
intestine,
rats.
The Journal of Nutrition Vol. 128 No. 10 October 1998,
pp. 1614-1619
Copyright ©1998 by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences
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