LIPIDS 2. Where are they found in the cell? · LIPIDS hydrophobic or amphipathic small molecules 1....

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CE TAG LIPIDS hydrophobic or amphipathic small molecules 1. What are the main classes of lipids? 2. Where are they found in the cell? 3. Where did they come from? Lipids Classes Fatty acids Free (toxic unless esterified) Esterifed in glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, glycerol lipids and sterol lipids monolayer PL, C lipid droplet mitochondrion cytoplasm cytosol ribosome Rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) cell membrane peroxisome Golgi complex free ribosome smooth endoplasmic reticulum lysosome nucleus

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LIPIDS hydrophobic or amphipathic small molecules

peroxisome

Lipids Classes

Fatty acids • Free (toxic unless esterified) • Esterifed in glycerophospholipids,

sphingolipids, glycerol lipids and sterol lipids

peroxisome

mitochondrion

cytoplasm cytosol

ribosome Rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER)

cell membrane

peroxisome

Golgi complex free ribosome

smooth endoplasmic

reticulum

lysosome

nucleus

1. What are the main classes of lipids? 2. Where are they found in the cell? 3. Where did they come from?

lipid droplet

In membranes

In cell membrane and lipid droplets

In lipid droplets

LIPIDS

peroxisome

CE GL

import Circulating Lipoprotein

• LDL from liver • Chylomicrons

from intestines

not to scale

Circulating FA (grey spacefill) imported from adipoctyes bound to protein: serum albumin; FA to mitochondria for oxidation/ATP prod.

not to scale

FA

IMPORT/EXPORT

C, GP

peroxisome

mitochondrion

cytoplasm cytosol

ribosome Rough endo. reticulum

cell membrane

peroxisome

Golgi complex free ribosome

smooth endoplasmic

reticulum

lysosome nucleus

1. What are the main classes of lipids ? 2. Where are they found in the cell? 3. Where did they come from? Import /Export and Synthesis/Trafficking

lipoprotein

FA Exported FA from fat cells (adipocyte)

bind to serum albumin for transport to tissue

CE GL

lipoprotein

Circulating Lipoprotein • VLDL exported from liver

(synthesized) lipids • Chylomicrons exported from

intestines (ingested lipids)

not to scale

lipoprotein

FA

lipid droplet

mitochondrion

cytoplasm cytosol

ribosome Rough endo.

reticulum

cell membrane

peroxisome

Golgi complex

smooth endoplasmic

reticulum

lysosome

lipid droplet

LIPIDS

1. What are the main classes of lipids? 2. Where are they found in the cell? 3. Where did they come from? Import and Synthesis/Trafficking

GP

GL

ST C

FA

PM

GP PM SP2

SP

GP1

GP1 Cardiolipin and phosphatidyl glycerol (2 lipids also found in bacteria, are made in the mitochondrion

ER (smooth) main site of lipid synthesis

SP2 Ceramide, a precursor of SP, is made in mitochondria.

C Golgi: sorts lipids

synthesized in cytoplasm Mostly in liver, mammary tissue

FA

elongation

elongation, desaturation

FA

FA

elongation

CE

ST

GP

PM

GL

C