Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Changes in the properties of cytosolic acetyl-CoA carboxylase studied in cold-clamped liver samples from fed, starved and starved-refed rats.


ABSTRACT: We have used the cold-clamping technique to study the changes in acetyl-CoA carboxylase activity that occur in the cytosolic and mitochondrial fractions of the liver of fed, starved and starved-refed rats. No evidence was found for a role of the mitochondrial enzyme as a pool from which cytosolic carboxylase could be replenished upon refeeding of starved rats. Starvation for 24 h or 48 h induced changes in the expressed (assayed at 20 mM-citrate), total (citrate- and phosphatase-treated) and citrate-independent activities of cytosolic carboxylase, as well as in its Ka for citrate. The expressed/total activity ratio was low even in the fed state and was depressed further by starvation. The effects of refeeding occurred in two phases: an acute phase (approx. 1 h) in which the starvation-induced changes in Ka and expressed/total activity ratio were rapidly reversed, and a prolonged slow phase in which the two parameters attained values that were lower and higher, respectively, than those in the normal fed state. Refeeding also resulted in a gradual increase in citrate-independent activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase. An additional marked increase in this activity occurred only in 48 h-starved-refed rats between 24 h and 48 h of refeeding. These findings are discussed in terms of the observed time courses of changes in lipogenic rates that occur in vivo in starved-refed rats and of the possible molecular mechanisms involved.

SUBMITTER: Moir AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1149730 | biostudies-other | 1990 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC1138765 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC5811211 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3689991 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3688620 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3431002 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC39874 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC4833862 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC1144197 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC2677216 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3264756 | biostudies-literature