scholarly journals Effect of the fatty acid oxidation inhibitor 2-tetradecylglycidic acid on pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity in starved and alloxan-diabetic rats

1982 ◽  
Vol 208 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian D. Caterson ◽  
Stephen J. Fuller ◽  
Philip J. Randle

Intravenous administration of the fatty acid oxidation inhibitor 2-tetradecylglycidic acid had no effect on the proportion of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex in the active form in heart, diaphragm or gastrocnemius muscles or in liver, kidney or adipose tissue of fed normal rats. The compound reversed the effect of 48h starvation (which decreased the proportion of active complex) in heart muscle, partially reversed the effect of starvation in kidney, but had no effect in the other tissues listed. The compound failed to reverse the effect of alloxan-diabetes (which decreased the proportion of active complex) in any of these tissues. In perfused hearts of fed normal rats, 2-tetradecylglycidate reversed effects of palmitate (which decreased the proportion of active complex), but it had no effect in the absence of palmitate. In perfused hearts of 48h-starved rats the compound increased the proportion of active complex to that found in fed normal rats in the presence or absence of insulin. In perfused hearts of diabetic rats the compound normalized the proportion of active complex in the presence of insulin, but not in its absence. Palmitate reversed the effects of 2-tetradecylglycidate in perfused hearts of starved or diabetic rats. Evidence is given that 2-tetradecylglycidate only reverses effects of starvation and alloxan-diabetes on the proportion of active complex in heart muscle under conditions in which it inhibits fatty acid oxidation. It is concluded that effects of starvation and alloxan-diabetes on the proportion of active complex in heart muscle are dependent on fatty acid oxidation. Insulin had no effect on the proportion of active complex in hearts or diaphragms of fed or starved rats in vitro. In perfused hearts of alloxan-diabetic rats, insulin induced a modest increase in the proportion of active complex in the presence of albumin, but not in its absence.

1984 ◽  
Vol 224 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
I D Caterson ◽  
P F Williams ◽  
A L Kerbey ◽  
L D Astbury ◽  
W E Plehwe ◽  
...  

The proportion of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex in the active, dephosphorylated form was decreased (compared with lean controls) in heart muscle in gold thioglucose-treated obese hyperinsulinaemic mice, and the extent of enzyme inactivation was significantly linearly correlated with both body weight and body fat content. A single oral dose (25 mg/kg body wt.) of the beta-oxidation inhibitor 2-tetradecylglycidic acid to obese animals restored pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity to that of lean controls. It is suggested that increased fatty acid oxidation may be a major factor in mediating the phosphorylation and inactivation of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex in mouse heart muscle in obesity, and this may represent an important mechanism in the development and/or expression of insulin resistance in respect of abnormalities of cellular glucose homoeostasis in these animals.


2007 ◽  
Vol 283 (3) ◽  
pp. 1670-1678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn C. Burgess ◽  
Katsumi Iizuka ◽  
Nam Ho Jeoung ◽  
Robert A. Harris ◽  
Yoshihiro Kashiwaya ◽  
...  

Livers from mice lacking the carbohydrate-responsive element-binding protein (ChREBP) were compared with wild type (WT) mice to determine the effect of this transcription factor on hepatic energy metabolism. The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex was considerably more active in ChREBP-/- mice because of diminished pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase activity. Greater pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity caused a stimulation of lactate and pyruvate oxidation, and it significantly impaired fatty acid oxidation in perfused livers from ChREBP-/- mice. This shift in mitochondrial substrate utilization led to a 3-fold reduction of the free cytosolic [NAD+]/[NADH] ratio, a 1.7-fold increase in the free mitochondrial [NAD+]/[NADH] ratio, and a 2-fold decrease in the free cytosolic [ATP]/[ADP][Pi] ratio in the ChREBP-/- liver compared with control. Hepatic pyruvate carboxylase flux was impaired with ChREBP deletion secondary to decreased fatty acid oxidation, increased pyruvate oxidation, and limited pyruvate availability because of reduced activity of liver pyruvate kinase and malic enzyme, which replenish pyruvate via glycolysis and pyruvate cycling. Overall, the shift from fat utilization to pyruvate and lactate utilization resulted in a decrease in the energy of ATP hydrolysis and a hypo-energetic state in the livers of ChREBP-/- mice.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samar HK Tareen ◽  
Martina Kutmon ◽  
Ilja CW Arts ◽  
Theo M de Kok ◽  
Chris T Evelo ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Metabolic flexibility is the ability of an organism to switch between substrates for energy metabolism, in response to the changing nutritional state and needs of the organism. On the cellular level, metabolic flexibility revolves around the tricarboxylic acid cycle by switching acetyl coenzyme A production from glucose to fatty acids and vice versa. In this study, we modelled cellular metabolic flexibility by constructing a logical model connecting glycolysis, fatty acid oxidation, fatty acid synthesis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and then using network analysis to study the behaviours of the model. Results We observed that the substrate switching usually occurs through the inhibition of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) by pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases (PDK), which moves the metabolism from glycolysis to fatty acid oxidation. Furthermore, we were able to verify four different regulatory models of PDK to contain known biological observations, leading to the biological plausibility of all four models across different cells and conditions. Conclusion These results suggest that the cellular metabolic flexibility depends upon the PDC-PDK regulatory interaction as a key regulatory switch for changing metabolic substrates.


1978 ◽  
Vol 173 (2) ◽  
pp. 669-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
N J Hutson ◽  
A L Kerbey ◽  
P J Randle ◽  
P H Sugden

1. The conversion of inactive (phosphorylated) pyruvate dehydrogenase complex into active (dephosphorylated) complex by pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate phosphatase is inhibited in heart mitochondria prepared from alloxan-diabetic or 48h-starved rats, in mitochondria prepared from acetate-perfused rat hearts and in mitochondria prepared from normal rat hearts incubated with respiratory substrates for 6 min (as compared with 1 min). 2. This conclusion is based on experiments with isolated intact mitochondria in which the pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase reaction was inhibited by pyruvate or ATP depletion (by using oligomycin and carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone), and in experiments in which the rate of conversion of inactive complex into active complex by the phosphatase was measured in extracts of mitochondria. The inhibition of the phosphatase reaction was seen with constant concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+ (activators of the phosphatase). The phosphatase reaction in these mitochondrial extracts was not inhibited when an excess of exogenous pig heart pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate was used as substrate. It is concluded that this inhibition is due to some factor(s) associated with the substrate (pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate complex) and not to inhibition of the phosphatase as such. 3. This conclusion was verified by isolating pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate complex, free of phosphatase, from hearts of control and diabetic rats an from heart mitochondria incubed for 1min (control) or 6min with respiratory substrates. The rates of re-activation of the inactive complexes were then measured with preparations of ox heart or rat heart phosphatase. The rates were lower (relative to controls) with inactive complex from hearts of diabetic rats or from heart mitochondria incubated for 6min with respiratory substrates. 4. The incorporation of 32Pi into inactive complex took 6min to complete in rat heart mitocondria. The extent of incorporation was consistent with three or four sites of phosphorylation in rat heart pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. 5. It is suggested that phosphorylation of sites additional to an inactivating site may inhibit the conversion of inactive complex into active complex by the phosphatase in heart mitochondria from alloxan-diabetic or 48h-starved rats or in mitochondria incubated for 6min with respiratory substrates.


1999 ◽  
Vol 277 (2) ◽  
pp. E342-E351 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Chatham ◽  
Zhi-Ping Gao ◽  
John R. Forder

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of increasing exogenous palmitate concentration on carbohydrate and palmitate oxidation in hearts from control and 1-wk diabetic rats. Hearts were perfused with glucose, [3-13C]lactate, and [U-13C]palmitate. Substrate oxidation rates were determined by combining13C-NMR glutamate isotopomer analysis of tissue extracts with measurements of oxygen consumption. Carbohydrate oxidation was markedly depressed after diabetes in the presence of low (0.1 mM) but not high (1.0 mM) palmitate concentration. Increasing exogenous palmitate concentration 10-fold resulted in a 7-fold increase in the contribution of palmitate to energy production in controls but only a 30% increase in the diabetic group. Consequently, at 0.1 mM palmitate, the rate of fatty acid oxidation was higher in the diabetic group than in controls; however, at 1.0 mM fatty acid oxidation, it was significantly depressed. Therefore, after 1 wk of diabetes, the major differences in carbohydrate and fatty acid metabolism occur primarily at low rather than high exogenous palmitate concentration.


1993 ◽  
Vol 265 (4) ◽  
pp. E592-E600 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Jenkins ◽  
L. H. Storlien ◽  
G. J. Cooney ◽  
G. S. Denyer ◽  
I. D. Caterson ◽  
...  

We examined the effect of the long-chain fatty acid oxidation blocker methyl palmoxirate (methyl 2-tetradecyloxiranecarboxylate, McN-3716) on glucose metabolism in conscious rats. Fasted animals [5 h with or without hyperinsulinemia (100 mU/l) and 24 h] received methyl palmoxirate (30 or 100 mg/kg body wt po) or vehicle 30 min before a euglycemic glucose clamp. Whole body and tissue-specific glucose metabolism were calculated from 2-deoxy-[3H]-glucose kinetics and accumulation. Oxidative metabolism was assessed by respiratory gas exchange in 24-h fasted animals. Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activation was determined in selected tissues. Methyl palmoxirate suppressed whole body lipid oxidation by 40-50% in 24-h fasted animals, whereas carbohydrate oxidation was stimulated 8- to 10-fold. Whole body glucose utilization was not significantly affected by methyl palmoxirate under any conditions; hepatic glucose output was suppressed only in the predominantly gluconeogenic 24-h fasted animals. Methyl palmoxirate stimulated glucose uptake in heart in 24-h fasted animals [15 +/- 5 vs. 220 +/- 28 (SE) mumol x 100 g-1 x min-1], with smaller effects in 5-h fasted animals with or without hyperinsulinemia. Methyl palmoxirate induced significant activation of pyruvate dehydrogenase in heart in the basal state, but not during hyperinsulinemia. In skeletal muscles, methyl palmoxirate suppressed glucose utilization in the basal state but had no effect during hyperinsulinemia; pyruvate dehydrogenase activation in skeletal muscle was not affected by methyl palmoxirate under any conditions. The responses in skeletal muscle are consistent with the operation of a mechanism similar to the Pasteur effect.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1994 ◽  
Vol 267 (5) ◽  
pp. H1862-H1871 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Collins-Nakai ◽  
D. Noseworthy ◽  
G. D. Lopaschuk

Although epinephrine is widely used clinically, its effect on myocardial energy substrate preference in the intact heart has yet to be clearly defined. We determined the effects of epinephrine on glucose and fatty acid metabolism in isolated working rat hearts perfused with 11 mM glucose, 0.4 mM palmitate, and 100 muU/ml insulin at an 11.5-mmHg left atrial preload and a 60-mmHg aortic afterload. Glycolysis and glucose oxidation were measured in hearts perfused with [5–3H]glucose and [U-14C]glucose, whereas fatty acid oxidation was measured in hearts perfused with [1–14C]palmitate. Addition of 1 microM epinephrine resulted in a 53% increase in the heart rate-developed pressure product. Glycolysis increased dramatically following addition of epinephrine (a 272% increase), as did glucose oxidation (a 410% increase). In contrast, fatty acid oxidation increased by only 10%. Epinephrine treatment did not increase the amount of oxygen required to produce an equivalent amount of ATP; however, epinephrine did increase the uncoupling between glycolysis and glucose oxidation in these fatty acid-perfused hearts, resulting in a significant increase in H+ production from glucose metabolism. Overall ATP production in epinephrine-treated hearts increased 59%. The contribution of glucose (glycolysis and glucose oxidation) to ATP production increased from 13 to 36%, which was accompanied by a reciprocal decrease in the contribution of fatty acid oxidation to ATP production from 83 to 63%. The increase in glucose oxidation was accompanied by a significant increase in pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity in the active form. We conclude that the increase in ATP required for contractile function following epinephrine treatment occurs through a preferential increase in glucose use.


2007 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 527-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arzu Onay-Besikci ◽  
Sahika Guner ◽  
Ebru Arioglu ◽  
Isil Ozakca ◽  
A. Tanju Ozcelikay ◽  
...  

Clinical and experimental evidence suggest that increased rates of fatty acid oxidation in the myocardium result in impaired contractile function in both normal and diabetic hearts. Glucose utilization is decreased in type 1 diabetes, and fatty acid oxidation dominates for energy production at the expense of an increase in oxygen requirement. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of chronic treatment with trimetazidine (TMZ) on cardiac mechanical function and fatty acid oxidation in streptozocin (STZ)-diabetic rats. Spontaneously beating hearts from male Sprague–Dawley rats were subjected to a 60-minute aerobic perfusion period with a recirculating Krebs–Henseleit solution containing 11 mmol/L glucose, 100 μU/mL insulin, and 0.8 mmol/L palmitate prebound to 3% bovine serum albumin (BSA). Mechanical function of the hearts, as cardiac output × heart rate (in (mL/min)·(beats/min)·10–2), was deteriorated in diabetic (73 ± 4) and TMZ-treated diabetic (61 ± 7) groups compared with control (119 ± 3) and TMZ-treated controls (131 ± 6). TMZ treatment increased coronary flow in TMZ-treated control (23 ± 1 mL/min) hearts compared with untreated controls (18 ± 1 mL/min). The mRNA expression of 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase (3-KAT) was increased in diabetic hearts. The inhibitory effect of TMZ on fatty acid oxidation was not detected at 0.8 mmol/L palmitate in the perfusate. Addition of 1 μmol/L TMZ 30 min into the perfusion did not affect fatty acid oxidation rates, cardiac work, or coronary flow. Our results suggest that higher expression of 3-KAT in diabetic rats might require increased concentrations of TMZ for the inhibitory effect on fatty acid oxidation. A detailed kinetic analysis of 3-KAT using different concentrations of fatty acid will determine the fatty acid inhibitory concentration of TMZ in diabetic state where plasma fatty acid levels are increased.


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