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Inhibitors of Lipase Activities in Soybean and Other Oil Seeds ¹

Biology Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208

In the cotyledon extracts of seedlings of many oil seeds, including soybean, sunflower, cucumber, and peanut, the in vitro lipase activity was too low to account for the observed in vivo lipolysis. The low in vitro lipase activity was due to the presence of lipase inhibitors in the extracts. The inhibitors from soybean were characterized based on their effects on the hydrolysis of trilinolein by corn, pancreatic, and Rhizopus lipases. The inhibitors were not dialyzable and unaltered by RNase and -galactosidase treatment. However, they were sensitive to heating and protease digestion. The inhibitory effect of the inhibitors was expressed irrespective of the sequence of the addition of lipase, substrate, and inhibitors to the assay medium. The inhibitory effect was equally expressed when the inhibitors were added either before or after the lipase reaction had been in progress. The inhibitory effect of the inhibitors was independent of the amount of lipase present in the assay, but was dependent on the amount of substrate added. High substrate concentration eliminated totally the inhibitory effect of the inhibitors. Most of the inhibitors were recovered in the soluble fraction in subcellular fractionation. They were present in the 2-4S and not in the 7S, and 11S (storage proteins) protein fraction. There was a gradual decrease of the inhibitors in the cotyledons in the postgerminative growth. We suggest that the inhibitors are proteins which bind to the surface of the substrate micelles. The binding prevents the normal functioning of lipase which acts on the interfacial area between the aqueous medium and the micelle surface.

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