scholarly journals Evidence that rat liver pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase activator protein is a pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase

1991 ◽  
Vol 275 (3) ◽  
pp. 775-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
S C Mistry ◽  
D A Priestman ◽  
A L Kerbey ◽  
P J Randle

It is shown here that rat liver pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) kinase activator protein (KAP) catalyses ATP-dependent inactivation and [32P]phosphorylation of pig heart PDHE1 and of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) PDH complex devoid of PDH kinase activity, that fluorosulphonylbenzoyladenosine inactivates rat liver KAP and the intrinsic PDH kinase of rat liver PDH complex, and that KAP, like PDH kinase, is inactivated by thiol-reactive reagents. It is concluded that KAP is a free PDH kinase.

1986 ◽  
Vol 239 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
G S Denyer ◽  
A L Kerbey ◽  
P J Randle

Starvation of rats for 48 h increased the activity of PDH (pyruvate dehydrogenase) kinase 2.2-fold in extracts of liver mitochondria, 2.9-fold in PDH complex partially purified therefrom by fractional precipitation, and 5-fold in PDH complex partially purified by gel filtration on Sephacryl S-300. A protein fraction was separated from PDH complex in extracts of rat liver mitochondria by gel filtration or fractional precipitation, which increased the activity of PDH kinase in rat liver and pig heart PDH complexes. The activity of this protein fraction was increased approx. 2.5-fold by 48 h starvation of rats. With highly purified pig heart PDH complex it was shown that the protein fraction increased the Vmax. of the PDH kinase reaction 35-fold (fraction from fed rats) or 82-fold (fraction from starved rats); starvation had no effect on the concentration of protein fraction required to give 0.5 Vmax. Evidence is given that the increase in PDH kinase activity effected in extracts of liver mitochondria by starvation is due to increased activity of kinase activator protein, which is tightly bound by rat liver PDH complex and not removed by a single gel filtration. With pig heart PDH complex, increased PDH kinase activity was retained after gel filtration of an admixture with kinase activator protein from starved rats, but was restored to the control value by a second gel filtration; the alterations in PDH kinase activity were associated with obvious changes in protein bands in SDS gels.


1991 ◽  
Vol 260 (5) ◽  
pp. E669-E674 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. Vary

The effect of sterile inflammation and sepsis on the proportion of active pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDH) in mitochondria isolated from skeletal muscle has been investigated. The proportion of active PDH in mitochondria isolated from septic animals was significantly reduced compared with control under all incubation conditions examined, even in the presence of inhibitors of the PDH kinase. There was no significant difference between control and sterile inflammation in any of the incubations examined. The rate constant for ATP-dependent inactivation of the PDH complex in mitochondrial extracts from control animals was -0.42 min-1 (r = 0.993; P less than 0.001) and was not altered in mitochondrial extracts from sterile inflammatory animals (-0.43 min-1; r = 0.999; P less than 0.001). However, rate constants for inactivation in septic animals was significantly increased over twofold to -1.08 min-1 (r = 0.987; P less than 0.001) (P less than 0.001 vs. control or sterile inflammation). In the presence of inhibitors of the PDH kinase reaction (2.5 mM pyruvate or 1 mM dichloroacetate), inactivation of PDH after addition of ATP was significantly greater in mitochondrial extracts from septic than either control or sterile inflammatory animals. These results suggest that sepsis, but not sterile inflammation, induces a stable factor in skeletal muscle mitochondria that increased PDH kinase activity.


1994 ◽  
Vol 300 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
D A Priestman ◽  
S C Mistry ◽  
A Halsall ◽  
P J Randle

Antibodies were raised in rabbits to free rat liver pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) kinase alpha-chain and shown to react with PDH kinase alpha-chain in rat heart and liver PDH complexes, in purified pig heart PDH complex and in bovine kidney dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase-protein X-PDH kinase subcomplex. E.l.i.s.a for PDHE1 (pyruvate dehydrogenase) and PDH kinase have been developed and applied to assays of these proteins in extracts of rat liver and rat heart mitochondria; the measured immunoreactivities for PDHE1 (heart > liver) and for PDH kinase alpha-chain (liver > heart) paralleled known differences in PDH complex and PDH kinase activities respectively. The results of e.l.i.s.a of PDH kinase alpha-chain in extracts of rat liver mitochondria showed that the effects of starvation to increase PDH kinase activity in vivo, and the effects of dibutyryl cyclic AMP or palmitate to increase PDH kinase activity in hepatocytes cultured in vitro, are due largely (> 90%) to an increase in the specific activity of PDH kinase. The effect, in cultured hepatocytes, of dibutyryl cyclic AMP to increase PDH kinase activity was blocked by cycloheximide; the effect of palmitate was blocked by an inhibitor of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (Etomoxir), but not by cycloheximide.


1989 ◽  
Vol 257 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
D R Marchington ◽  
A L Kerbey ◽  
M G Giardina ◽  
A E Jones ◽  
P J Randle

The activities of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) kinase and of PDH kinase activator protein (KAP) were increased 2-2.4-fold during 25 h of culture of hepatocytes from fed rats with glucagon plus n-octanoate. PDH kinase activity in hepatocytes from starved rats (initially 2.2 x fed control) fell during 25 h of culture in medium 199 (to 1.5 x fed control), but was maintained by glucagon plus octanoate. Dibutyryl or 8-bromo cyclic AMP increased PDH kinase activity 2-2.2-fold in hepatocytes from fed rats, but phenylephrine and isoproterenol (isoprenaline) were without effect. Insulin blocked the action of glucagon to increase PDH kinase activity and decreased the effect of octanoate and octanoate plus glucagon. It is suggested that the effects of starvation to increase activities of PDH kinase and of KAP in liver are mediated by alterations in circulating concentrations of glucagon, fatty acids and insulin and in hepatic cyclic AMP.


1985 ◽  
Vol 231 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
A L Kerbey ◽  
P J Randle

The pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1) and acetyltransferase (E2) components of pig heart and ox kidney pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex were separated and purified. The E1 component was phosphorylated (alpha-chain) and inactivated by MgATP. Phosphorylation was mainly confined to site 1. Addition of E2 accelerated phosphorylation of all three sites in E1 alpha and inactivation of E1. On the basis of histone H1 phosphorylation, E2 is presumed to contain PDH kinase, which was removed (greater than 98%) by treatment with p-hydroxymercuriphenylsulphonate. Stimulation of ATP-dependent inactivation of E1 by E2 was independent of histone H1 kinase activity of E2. The effect of E2 is attributed to conformational change(s) induced in E1 and/or E1-associated PDH kinase. PDH kinase activity associated with E1 could not be separated from it be gel filtration or DEAE-cellulose chromatography. Subunits of PDH kinase were not detected on sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide gels of E1 or E2, presumably because of low concentration. The activity of pig heart PDH complex was increased by E2, but not by E1, indicating that E2 is rate-limiting in the holocomplex reaction. ATP-dependent inactivation of PDH complex was accelerated by E1 or by phosphorylated E1 plus associated PDH kinase, but not by E2 plus presumed PDH kinase. It is suggested that a substantial proportion of PDH kinase may accompany E1 when PDH complex is dissociated into its component enzymes. The possibility that E1 may possess intrinsic PDH kinase activity is considered unlikely, but may not have been fully excluded.


1991 ◽  
Vol 275 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
B S Jones ◽  
S J Yeaman

The kinase-activator protein (KAP) of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) has been purified approx. 2250-fold from high-speed supernatants of mitochondrial extracts from the liver of 48 h-starved rats. Purified KAP demonstrates kinase activity towards both the E1 component of PDC and towards a synthetic peptide corresponding to the major phosphorylation site on E1. Furthermore, the activities of KAP and PDC kinase co-fractionate through several stages of purification and have the same apparent mass. We conclude that KAP is not a distinct protein, but is kinase which has dissociated from the complex.


1987 ◽  
Vol 246 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
D R Marchington ◽  
A L Kerbey ◽  
A E Jones ◽  
P J Randle

In tissue culture of hepatocytes, insulin (0.1-1 munits/ml for 4 h) reversed completely the effects of starvation of rats to decrease the activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex and to increase the activities of PDH kinase and PDH kinase activator protein. It had no effect in hepatocytes from fed rats. Significant effects of insulin were detected with 0.01 munit/ml after 4 h, and in 1-2 h with 1 munit/ml.


1996 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Sugden ◽  
Lee G.D. Fryer ◽  
David A. Priestman ◽  
Karen A. Orfali ◽  
Mark J. Holness

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