J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 14, 7827-7831, May, 1990

Transfer of fluorescent fatty acids from liver and heart fatty acid- binding proteins to model membranes

J Storch and NM Bass
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

Fatty acid binding proteins (FABP) are a family of 14-15 kDa proteins found in high abundance in many mammalian cell types. The physiological functions of the FABP remain unknown. It is also not known whether each FABP has a unique function, or whether all FABP function in a similar manner in their respective tissues. In this report the rate of transfer of anthroyloxy-labeled free fatty acid (ffa) from FABP to phospholipid bilayers is monitored using a fluorescence resonance energy transfer assay. A comparison is made between heart muscle FABP and liver FABP, and the results show that the rate of ffa transfer from the heart protein is an order of magnitude greater than the rate of transfer from the liver protein. Ffa transfer rates from both liver and heart FABP are independent of acceptor concentration and composition, suggesting that, at least in the case of model membrane acceptor vesicles, the mechanism of transfer is via aqueous diffusion rather than via collision of FABP with membranes. Since the rate of ffa transfer is likely to be important to cellular ffa traffic, these studies suggest that heart FABP may function differently within the myocyte than does liver FABP within the hepatocyte.
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