1. It is demonstrated that polyvinyl alcohol (I%), lauryl polyvinyl alcohol (2%) and sodium carboxy methyl cellulose (4%) are effective in emulsifying the natural fat about in the same degree as gelatin, and the polyvinyl alcohol is used as the most convenient dispersing agent in the experiments.
2. Dicarboxylic amino acids and diamino acids including ornithine have a notable stimulating effect (about 50%) on the pancreas lipase for the triacetin and olive oil hydrolysis, with the exception of arginine for the triacetin hydrolysis. An accelerating effect of histidine on the lipase for the olive oil hydrolysis is more than 100%.
3. Among several organic acids, succinic and citric acids are also effective (50%) on the lipase action. While fumaric acid remains almost without influence, maleic acid exhibits a notable stimulating effect on the lipase, as succinic acid. This fact suggests a certain significance of
cis-form of these compounds.
4. With regard to the significance of the free amino group and the carboxyl of the amino acids, benzoyl-L-aspartic acid, benzoyl-L-glutamic acid and L-asparagine show almost similarly an accelerating influence (50%) as free aspartic, glutamic or succinic acids. Therefore, the free amino groups of these two amino dicarboxylic acids as well as one carboxyl of aspartic acid seem to have little influence onthe lipase.
Effect of lysine appears, on the contrary, to have its relation to both the free amino groups of the acid.
5. The pancreaslipase solution incubated with alkali at pH 9.2 and at 37° for 24 hours, loses 50% of its activity, which is not completely, but to about 85 % protected from alkali inactivation in the presence of aspartic acid. When the acid is afterwards added to the alkali treated enzyme, it is also able to reactivate the loss of lipase activity to about 85%, as asparagine and succinic acid.
The author has been much indebted to Prof. Dr. Senji Utzino for his hearty guidance and helpful suggestions. These investigations owe much to the Ministry of Education for its grants for the Scientific Researches, for which the author wishes here to express his deep appreciation.
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