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The aim of our study was to define the mechanism by which cholesterol uptake is inhibited by lecithin but not by lysolecithin. The work compared the cholesterol uptake by everted rat jejunal sacs from bile salt-lecithin-cholesterol or bile salt-lysolecithin-cholesterol micelles. The micellar size and the cholesterol saturation were measured.
The size or molecular weight increases when the lecithin concentration rises, and the cholesterol uptake decreases and leads to zero when the micelles contain more than 30% lecithin. The size of bile salt-lysolecithin-cholesterol micelles is smaller than that of lecithin micelles in comparable molar ratios. Consistent with this result is the fact that, for a given phospholipid concentration, cholesterol uptake is greater in the presence of lysolecithin than in the presence of lecithin. The diffusion rate of the micelles through the unstirred water, layer decreases when micellar size increases. However, the comparison of uptakes from lecithin or lysolecithin micelles similar in size and in cholesterol saturation showed that the cholesterol uptake is still lower for lecithin micelles. This shows that with larger micelles some factor other than micellar size and cholesterol content of the micelles is important. We observe that lysolecithin absorption is 15-fold greater, than lecithin absorption. We suggest that lysolecithin absorption results in a rapid supersaturation with cholesterol leading to cholesterol absorption.
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Reynier, M.O., Lafont, H., Crotte, C. et al. Intestinal cholesterol uptake: Comparison between mixed micelles containing lecithin or lysolecithin. Lipids 20, 145–150 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02534246
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