scholarly journals Fatty acid synthesis in the perfused liver of adrenalectomized rats

1976 ◽  
Vol 156 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
C J Kirk ◽  
T R Verrinder ◽  
D A Hems

1. Fatty acid synthesis, measured in the perfused liver of fed adrenalectomized rats with 3H2O and 14C-labelled precursors, was less than in control sham-operated rats. 2. This defect was more extensive for synthesis of fatty acids incorporated into triacylglycerols than into phospholipids. 3. There was impairment in desaturation and export of newly synthesized fatty acid. 4. Fatty acid synthesis and desaturation were restored to normal rates 5h after treatment with cortisol in vivo. 5. Fatty acid synthesis was seasonally variable, being highest in the winter; the impairment after adrenalectomy was observed in all seasons. 6. In perfusions with oleate (0.7 mM), no further impairment in fatty acid synthesis was discerned in livers from adrenalectomized rats, in which the rate resembled that in control livers. 7. No defect in the incorporation of oleate into glycerides was discerned in livers from adrenalectomized rats. 8. Cortisol exerted no stimulatory effect on fatty acid synthesis when added to perfusion media. 9. The impairment in hepatic lipogenesis, demonstrable after adrenalectomy, shows that adrenal glucocorticoids promote hepatic capacity for fatty acid synthesis de novo, at least in intact non-diabetic rats. It is suggested that this effect is mediated by insulin, perhaps through direct action on the liver.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Ning ◽  
Xin Guo ◽  
Xiaolong Liu ◽  
Chang Lu ◽  
Aman Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Elevated de novo lipogenesis (DNL) is considered to be a crucial factor in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development. However, the molecular mechanism for its occurrence in HCC is still unclear. Herein, we identified ubiquitin-specific protease 22 (USP22) as a key regulator for de novo fatty acid synthesis, which directly interacts with, deubiquitinates and stabilizes PPARγ through K48-linked deubiquitination, and in turn, this stabilization increases ACC and ACLY transcription. In addition, we found that USP22 promoted the de novo synthesis of fatty acid labeling from glucose tracers. USP22-dysregulated de novo fatty acid synthesis contributes to HCC progression, but USP22 was functionality suppressed by inhibiting the expression of PPARγ, ACLY, or ACC in in vitro cell proliferation and in vivo tumorigenesis experiments. In HCC, USP22 expression positively correlates with PPARγ expression, and simultaneously, high expression of USP22 and PPARγ or USP22, ACC and ACLY is associated with a poor prognosis. Taken together, we identified a previously undescribed USP22-regulated lipogenesis molecular mechanism that involves the PPARγ-ACLY/ACC axis in HCC tumorigenesis and provide a rationale for therapeutic targeting of lipogenesis via USP22 inhibition.


1991 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel A. Asante ◽  
William G. Hill ◽  
Grahame Bulfield

SummaryThe flux through the de novo fatty acid synthesis pathway was estimated in lines of mice which differed substantially in fat content following 26 generations of selection at 10 weeks of age. Previous estimates of lipogenic enzyme activities had indicated an increase in the capacity for lipogenesis in the Fat compared to the Lean line. Therefore the in vivo flux in lipogenesis was measured in both liver and gonadal fat pad (GFP) tissues of males at 5 and 10 weeks of age, using the rat of incorporation of 3H from 3H2O and 14C from acetate and citra te into total lipids. AT both ages and in both tissues the Fat line had a higher flux, about 20% increase in the liver and up to three-fold increase (range 1·2- to 3·4-fold) in the GFP. We conclude that direct selection for fatness in mice has resulted in metabolic changes in the ratio of de novo fatty acid synthesis, and that the changes are largely detectable before 10 weeks, the age of selection.


1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelagh Wilson

BRL 26830 is a thermogenic β-adrenoceptor agonist which stimulates lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation in vivo. It also stimulates insulin secretion, and hence promotes glucose utilisation in vivo. The effect of this agent on white and brown adipose tissue of the rat was investigated. BRL 26830 increased the rate of fatty acid synthesis in vivo in white adipose tissue by 135% but reduced the rate of fatty acid synthesis in vivo in brown adipose tissue by 78%. The increase was abolished in white adipose tissue of streptozotocin-diabetic rats, indicating that the effect involved a rise in circulating insulin levels. The reduction in fatty acid synthesis in brown adipose tissues was associated with a reduction in the activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase in the tissue consistent with a direct β-adrenoceptor-mediated effect. BRL 26830 also increased the proportion of pyruvate dehydrogenase in its active form in vivo in brown adipose tissue and this increase was abolished in streptozotocin-diabetic rats. These findings illustrate different sensitivities of white and brown adipose tissues to combined β-adrenergic and insulin stimulation.


1973 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 639-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Guynn ◽  
Dulce Veloso ◽  
Raymond L. Harris ◽  
J. W. Randolph Lawson ◽  
Richard L. Veech

1. The effect of ethanol on liver fatty acid synthesis was studied in vivo in 24h-starved and ‘meal-fed’ rats (i.e. fed for 3h per day and not ad libitum). 2. In the fed animal3H2O was incorporated into fat at a rate of 0.46μmol of C2 units/min per g wet wt. of liver. Administration of either ethanol (3.2g/kg) or equicaloric amounts of glucose had no effect on the rate of3H2O incorporation into lipid. 3. In the 24h-starved animal, administration of the same dose of ethanol produced an increase in the rate of3H2O incorporation from 0.06 to 0.12μmol of C2 units/min per g fresh wt. after 3h whereas [malonyl-CoA] increased from 0.006 to 0.009μmol/g. Glucose given in amounts equicaloric to ethanol was significantly more lipogenic, increasing both the3H2O incorporation from 0.06 to 0.20μmol of C2 units/min per g and the malonyl-CoA content from 0.006 to 0.013 μmol/g wet wt. at 3h. 4. The decrease in the redox state of free cytoplasm NAD or NADP couples or the changes in content of citrate, glucose 6-phosphate and pyruvate of liver after ethanol administration had no measurable effect on the rate of fatty acid synthesis in vivo. 5. Under the conditions of the experiments there was no significant difference, among any of the groups, in the activity of liver fatty acid synthetase measured in vitro. A double-reciprocal plot of the rate of3H2O incorporation and the total tissue malonyl-CoA concentrations showed a striking relationship. It has been concluded that the rate of fatty acid synthesis in vivo is determined principally by the Vmax. of fatty acid synthetase and the concentration of free malonyl-CoA. 6. It has also been concluded that under the conditions of the present study, the synthesis of fatty acids de novo is unlikely to be an important factor in the increased liver lipid content associated with ethanol administration.


1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER J. KIRK ◽  
TERENCE R. VERRINDER ◽  
DOUGLAS A. HEMS

1974 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Michael W. Salmon ◽  
Neil L. Bowen ◽  
Douglas A. Hems

1. Fatty acid synthesis de novo was measured in the perfused liver of fed mice. 2. The total rate, measured by the incorporation into fatty acid of3H from3H2O (1–7μmol of fatty acid/h per g of fresh liver), resembled the rate found in the liver of intact mice. 3. Perfusions with l-[U-14C]lactic acid and [U-14C]glucose showed that circulating glucose at concentrations less than about 17mm was not a major carbon source for newly synthesized fatty acid, whereas lactate (10mm) markedly stimulated fatty acid synthesis, and contributed extensive carbon to lipogenesis. 4. The identification of 50% of the carbon converted into newly synthesized fatty acid lends further credibility to the use of3H2O to measure hepatic fatty acid synthesis. 5. The total rate of fatty acid synthesis, and the contribution of glucose carbon to lipogenesis, were directly proportional to the initial hepatic glycogen concentration. 6. The proportion of total newly synthesized lipid that was released into the perfusion medium was 12–16%. 7. The major products of lipogenesis were saturated fatty acids in triglyceride and phospholipid. 8. The rate of cholesterol synthesis, also measured with3H2O, expressed as acetyl residues consumed, was about one-fourth of the basal rate of fatty acid synthesis. 9. These results are discussed in terms of the carbon sources of hepatic newly synthesized fatty acids, and the effect of glucose, glycogen and lactate in stimulating lipogenesis, independently of their role as precursors.


2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 494-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreza Lúcia Menezes ◽  
Mayara Peron Pereira ◽  
Samyra Lopes Buzelle ◽  
Maísa Pavani dos Santos ◽  
Suélem Aparecida de França ◽  
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