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Carnitine acyltransferase activities in rat liver and heart measured with palmitoyl-CoA and octanoyl-CoA. Latency, effects of K+, bivalent metal ions and malonyl-CoA.


ABSTRACT: 1. Liver carnitine acyltransferase activities with palmitoyl-CoA and octanoyl-CoA as substrates and heart carnitine palmitoyltransferase were measured as overt activities in whole mitochondria or in mitochondria disrupted by sonication or detergent treatment. All measurements were made in sucrose/KCl-based media of 300 mosmol/litre. 2. In liver mitochondria, acyltransferase measured with octanoyl-CoA, like carnitine palmitoyltransferase, was found to have latent and overt activities. 3. Liver acyltransferase activities measured with octanoyl-CoA and palmitoyl-CoA differed in their response to changes in [K+], Triton X-100 treatment and, in particular, in their response to Mg2+. Mg2+ stimulated activity with octanoyl-CoA, but inhibited carnitine palmitoyltransferase. 4. The effects of K+ and Mg2+ on liver overt carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity were abolished by Triton X-100 treatment. 5. Heart overt carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity differed from the corresponding activity in liver in that it was more sensitive to changes in [K+] and was stimulated by Mg2+. Heart had less latent carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity than did liver. 6. Overt carnitine palmitoyltransferase in heart mitochondria was extremely sensitive to inhibition by malonyl-CoA. Triton X-100 abolished the effect of low concentrations of malonyl-CoA on this activity. 7. The inhibitory effect of malonyl-CoA on heart carnitine palmitoyltransferase could be overcome by increasing the concentration of palmitoyl-CoA.

SUBMITTER: Saggerson ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1158124 | biostudies-other | 1982 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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