scholarly journals Study of some factors controlling fatty acid oxidation in liver mitochondria of obese Zucker rats

1986 ◽  
Vol 239 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Clouet ◽  
C Henninger ◽  
J Bézard
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase ◽  
Urate Oxidase ◽  
Zucker Rats ◽  
Acid Oxidation ◽  
Obese Rats ◽  
Obese Zucker Rats ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase I

Livers of genetically obese Zucker rats showed, compared with lean controls, hypertrophy and enrichment in triacylglycerols, indicating that fatty acid metabolism was directed towards lipogenesis and esterification rather than towards fatty acid oxidation. Mitochondrial activities of cytochrome c oxidase and monoamine oxidase were significantly lower when expressed per g wet wt. of liver, whereas peroxisomal activities of urate oxidase and palmitoyl-CoA-dependent NAD+ reduction were unchanged. Liver mitochondria were able to oxidize oleic acid at the same rate in both obese and lean rats. For reactions occurring inside the mitochondria, e.g. octanoate oxidation and palmitoyl-CoA dehydrogenase, no difference was found between both phenotypes. Total carnitine palmitoyl-, octanoyl- and acetyl-transferase activities were slightly higher in mitochondria from obese rats, whereas the carnitine content of both liver tissue and mitochondria was significantly lower in obese rats compared with their lean littermates. The carnitine palmitoyltransferase I activity was slightly higher in liver mitochondria from obese rats, but this enzyme was more sensitive to malonyl-CoA inhibition in obese than in lean rats. The above results strongly suggest that the impaired fatty acid oxidation observed in the whole liver of obese rats is due to the diminished transport of fatty acids across the mitochondrial inner membrane via the carnitine palmitoyltransferase I. This effect could be reinforced by the decreased mitochondrial content per g wet wt. of liver. The depressed fatty acid oxidation may explain in part the lipid infiltration of liver observed in obese Zucker rats.

Effects of fenofibrate treatment on fatty acid oxidation in liver mitochondria of obese zucker rats

1987 ◽  
Vol 36 (19) ◽  
pp. 3231-3236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Henninger ◽  
Pierre Clouet ◽  
Hung Cao Danh ◽  
Marc Pascal ◽  
Jean Bezard
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Zucker Rats ◽  
Acid Oxidation ◽  
Fenofibrate Treatment ◽  
Obese Zucker Rats

An explanation for decreased ketogenesis in the liver of the obese Zucker rat

1989 ◽  
Vol 257 (4) ◽  
pp. R822-R828 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Azain ◽  
J. A. Ontko
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Intact Cell ◽  
Zucker Rats ◽  
Acid Oxidation ◽  
Palmitate Oxidation ◽  
Malonyl Coa ◽  
Obese Zucker Rats ◽  
Rat Livers

These studies were undertaken to further characterize and explain the differences in hepatic fatty acid metabolism between lean and obese Zucker rats. It was shown that the rate of palmitate or octanoate oxidation and the inhibition of palmitate oxidation by malonyl CoA in mitochondria isolated from lean and obese Zucker rats were similar. Cytochrome oxidase activity was similar in lean and obese rat livers. It was found that the addition of cytosol from the obese rat liver inhibited palmitate oxidation by 20-30% in mitochondria isolated from lean or obese rat livers and thus reproduced the conditions observed in the intact cell. Increased concentrations of metabolites such as malonyl CoA and glycerophosphate in the liver of the obese rat are likely contributors to this inhibitory effect. These results are extrapolated to the intact cell and suggest that decreased hepatic fatty acid oxidation in the obese rat can be accounted for by cytosolic influences on the mitochondria. The decreased rate of fatty acid oxidation observed in the intact hepatocyte or perfused liver cannot be explained by a defect in the capacity of mitochondria to oxidize substrate or by a decrease in mitochondrial number in the obese rat liver.

scholarly journals Effect of starvation and diabetes on the sensitivity of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I to inhibition by 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate

1987 ◽  
Vol 243 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
T W Stephens ◽  
R A Harris
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Isolated Hepatocytes ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Acid Oxidation ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase I

The sensitivity of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I to inhibition by 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate was decreased markedly in liver mitochondria isolated from either 48 h-starved or streptozotocin-diabetic rats. These treatments of the rat also decreased the sensitivity of fatty acid oxidation by isolated hepatocytes to inhibition by this compound. Furthermore, incubation of hepatocytes prepared from fed rats with N6O2′-dibutyryl cyclic AMP also decreased the sensitivity, whereas incubation of hepatocytes prepared from starved rats with lactate plus pyruvate had the opposite effect on 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate inhibition of fatty acid oxidation. The sensitivity of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I of mitochondria to 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate increased in a time-dependent manner, as previously reported for malonyl-CoA. Likewise, oleoyl-CoA activated carnitine palmitoyltransferase I in a time-dependent manner and prevented the sensitization by 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate. Increased exogenous carnitine caused a moderate increase in fatty acid oxidation by hepatocytes under some conditions and a decreased 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate inhibition of fatty acid oxidation at low oleate concentration, without decreasing the difference in 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate inhibition between fed- and starved-rat hepatocytes. Time-dependent changes in the conformation of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I or the membrane environment may be involved in differences among nutritional states in 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate-sensitivity of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I.

scholarly journals Effect of pH on malonyl-CoA inhibition of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I

1983 ◽  
Vol 212 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
T W Stephens ◽  
G A Cook ◽  
R A Harris
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Intracellular Ph ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase ◽  
Acid Oxidation ◽  
Effect Of Ph ◽  
Malonyl Coa ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase I ◽  
Ph Dependent ◽  
Hepatic Fatty Acid Oxidation

Malonyl-CoA inhibition of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I was found to be very pH-dependent. Malonyl-CoA concentrations causing 50% inhibition (I50) at pH 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5 and 8.0 were 0.04, 1, 9, 40 and 200 microM respectively. It is suggested that a lowering of intracellular pH, such as might occur in ketoacidosis, may attenuate hepatic fatty acid oxidation by increasing malonyl-CoA sensitivity of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I.

scholarly journals Two mechanisms produce tissue-specific inhibition of fatty acid oxidation by oxfenicine

1985 ◽  
Vol 227 (2) ◽  
pp. 651-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
T W Stephens ◽  
A J Higgins ◽  
G A Cook ◽  
R A Harris
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase ◽  
Partial Purification ◽  
Acid Oxidation ◽  
Branched Chain Amino Acid ◽  
Malonyl Coa ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase I ◽  
Branched Chain

Oxfenicine [S-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)glycine] is transaminated in heart and liver to 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate, an inhibitor of fatty acid oxidation shown in this study to act at the level of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (EC 2.3.1.21). Oxfenicine was an effective inhibitor of fatty acid oxidation in heart, but not in liver. Tissue specificity of oxfenicine inhibition of fatty acid oxidation was due to greater oxfenicine transaminase activity in heart and to greater sensitivity of heart carnitine palmitoyltransferase I to inhibition by 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate [I50 (concentration giving 50% inhibition) of 11 and 510 microM for the enzymes of heart and liver mitochondria, respectively]. Branched-chain-amino-acid aminotransferase (isoenzyme I, EC 2.6.1.42) was responsible for the transamination of oxfenicine in heart. A positive correlation was found between the capacity of various tissues to transaminate oxfenicine and the known content of branched-chain-amino-acid aminotransferase in these tissues. Out of three observed liver oxfenicine aminotransferase activities, one may correspond to asparagine aminotransferase, but the major activity could not be identified by partial purification and characterization. As reported previously for malonyl-CoA inhibition of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I, 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate inhibition of this enzyme was found to be very pH-dependent. In striking contrast with the kinetics of malonyl-CoA inhibition, 4-hydroxyphenylglyoxylate inhibition was not affected by oleoyl-CoA concentration, but was partially reversed by increasing carnitine concentrations.

In obese rat muscle transport of palmitate is increased and is channeled to triacylglycerol storage despite an increase in mitochondrial palmitate oxidation

2009 ◽  
Vol 296 (4) ◽  
pp. E738-E747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham P. Holloway ◽  
Carley R. Benton ◽  
Kerry L. Mullen ◽  
Yuko Yoshida ◽  
Laelie A. Snook ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Zucker Rats ◽  
Acid Oxidation ◽  
Fatty Acid Transport ◽  
Acid Transport ◽  
Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Palmitate Oxidation ◽  
Mitochondrial Fatty Acid ◽  
Obese Zucker Rats

Intramuscular triacylglycerol (IMTG) accumulation in obesity has been attributed to increased fatty acid transport and/or to alterations in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation. Alternatively, an imbalance in these two processes may channel fatty acids into storage. Therefore, in red and white muscles of lean and obese Zucker rats, we examined whether the increase in IMTG accumulation was attributable to an increased rate of fatty acid transport rather than alterations in subsarcolemmal (SS) or intermyofibrillar (IMF) mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation. In obese animals selected parameters were upregulated, including palmitate transport (red: +100%; white: +51%), plasmalemmal FAT/CD36 (red: +116%; white: +115%; not plasmalemmal FABPpm, FATP1, or FATP4), IMTG concentrations (red: ∼2-fold; white: ∼4-fold), and mitochondrial content (red +30%). Selected mitochondrial parameters were also greater in obese animals, namely, palmitate oxidation (SS red: +91%; SS white: +26%; not IMF mitochondria), FAT/CD36 (SS: +65%; IMF: +65%), citrate synthase (SS: +19%), and β-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase activities (SS: +20%); carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I activity did not differ. A comparison of lean and obese rat muscles revealed that the rate of change in IMTG concentration was eightfold greater than that of fatty acid oxidation (SS mitochondria), when both parameters were expressed relative to fatty transport. Thus fatty acid transport, esterification, and oxidation (SS mitochondria) are upregulated in muscles of obese Zucker rats, with these effects being most pronounced in red muscle. The additional fatty acid taken up is channeled primarily to esterification, suggesting that upregulation in fatty acid transport as opposed to altered fatty acid oxidation is the major determinant of intramuscular lipid accumulation.

scholarly journals Some aspects of fatty acid oxidation in isolated fat-cell mitochondria from rat

1975 ◽  
Vol 152 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
R D Harper ◽  
E D Saggerson
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Oxidation ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase ◽  
Acid Oxidation ◽  
Fat Cells ◽  
Fat Cell ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Activity ◽  
Rate Limit ◽  
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase 1

Mitochondrial were prepared from fat-cells isolated from rat epididymal adipose tissues of fed and 48 h-starved rats to study some aspects of fatty acid oxidation in this tissue. The data were compared with values obtained in parallel experiments with liver mitochondria that were prepared and incubated under identical conditions. 2. In the presence of malonate, fluorocitrate and arsenite, malate, but not pyruvate-bicarbonate, facilitated palmitoyl-group oxidation in both types of mitochondria. In the presence of malate, fat-cell mitochondria exhibited slightly higher rates of palmitoylcarnitine oxidation than liver. Rates of octanoylcarnitine oxidation were similar in liver and fat-cell mitochondria. Uncoupling stimulated acylcarnitine oxidation in liver, but not in fat-cell mitochondria. Oxidation of palmitoyl- and octanoyl-carnitine was partially additive in fat-cell but not in liver mitochondria. Starvation for 48 h significantly decreased both palmitoylcarnitine oxidation and latent carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity in fat-cell mitochondria. Starvation increased latent carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity in liver mitochondria but did not alter palmitoylcarnitine oxidation. These results suggested that palmitoylcarnitine oxidation in fat-cell but not in liver mitochondria may be limited by carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2 activity. 3. Fat-cell mitochondria also differed from liver mitochondria in exhibiting considerably lower rates of carnitine-dependent oxidation of palmitoyl-CoA or palmitate, suggesting that carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 activity may severely rate-limit palmitoyl-CoA oxidation in adipose tissue.

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