scholarly journals The short-term regulation of hepatic acetyl-CoA carboxylase during starvation and re-feeding in the rat

1991 ◽  
Vol 280 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
M R Munday ◽  
M R Milic ◽  
S Takhar ◽  
M J Holness ◽  
M C Sugden

Rapid inhibition of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) activity in rat liver in response to 6 h starvation and rapid re-activation in response to 2-6 h of re-feeding chow were shown to be due to changes in the expressed activity of existing enzyme. Decreases and increases in ACC concentration occurred at later stages of the transitions, i.e. 6-48 h starvation and 8-24 h re-feeding respectively. The decrease in expressed activity of ACC was due primarily to changes in its phosphorylation state, demonstrated by a significantly decreased Vmax. and significantly increased Ka for citrate of enzyme purified by avidin-Sepharose chromatography from 6 h- or 48 h-starved rats. These effects were totally reversed within 2-4 h of chow re-feeding. Changes in the activity of purified ACC closely correlated with reciprocal changes in the activity of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMP-PK) over the fed to starved to re-fed transition. Increases in the activity ratio of cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase in response to starvation lagged behind the increase in AMP-PK and the decrease in ACC activity. Changes in AMP-PK and ACC activities of rat liver closely correlated with changes in plasma insulin concentration in response to time courses of starvation and re-feeding.

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1059-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Munday

Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) plays a critical role in the regulation of fatty acid metabolism and its two isoforms, ACCα and ACCβ, appear to have distinct functions in the control of fatty acid synthesis and fatty acid oxidation, respectively. They are regulated by similar short-term mechanisms of allosteric activation by citrate, and reversible phosphorylation and inactivation, and there is clearly interaction between these mechanisms. AMP-activated protein kinase is the important physiological ACC kinase for both isoforms and yet there is a potential physiological role for cAMP-dependent protein kinase in the hormonally mediated inactivation of ACCα, and phosphorylation of ACCβ in its unique N-terminus.


1999 ◽  
Vol 341 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne N. BOONE ◽  
Brian RODRIGUES ◽  
Roger W. BROWNSEY

Two major forms of mammalian acetyl-CoA carboxylase (EC 6.4.1.2), ACC-α and ACC-β, have been described and the sequences of the isoforms deduced. ACC-β is the predominant isoform expressed in heart and skeletal muscles, in which a major role of malonyl-CoA is probably to regulate fatty acid β-oxidation. The regulatory properties of ACC-β are incompletely defined but it is known that some cellular stresses lead to inhibition in parallel with the activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMP-PK). Here we examine the phosphorylation state of ACC-β within intact rat cardiac ventricular myocytes. Treatment of myocytes with the β-adrenergic agonist isoprenaline (isoproterenol) led to increased ACC-β phosphorylation that was maximal within 2 min and with 50 nM agonist. Effects of isoprenaline were revealed by the incorporation of 32P into ACC in cells incubated with [32P]Pi and also by a marked decrease (approx. 80%) in subsequent phosphorylation in vitro with cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA). Analysis of tryptic phosphopeptides revealed that ACC-β was phosphorylated at multiple sites by incubationin vitro with PKA or AMP-PK. Treatment of myocytes with isoprenaline affected all the major phosphorylation sites of ACC-β that were recognized in vitro by purified PKA, so that subsequent phosphorylation in vitro was greatly diminished after cell stimulation. β-Adrenergic stimulation led to decreases in cellular malonyl-CoA concentrations but no changes in kinetic properties of ACC were detected after cell homogenization and partial purification of proteins. The results suggest that: (1) ACC-β is rapidly phosphorylated at multiple sites within intact cardiac ventricular myocytes after β-adrenergic stimulation, (2) ACC-β is phosphorylated in vitro by PKA and AMP-PK at multiple sites, including at least one site accessible to each kinase, as well as kinase-selective sites, and (3) PKA is a physiologically significant ACC-β kinase.


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