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Insulin regulates enzyme activity, malonyl-CoA sensitivity and mRNA abundance of hepatic carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I.

Abstract
The regulation of hepatic mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I (CPT-I) was studied in rats during starvation and insulin-dependent diabetes and in rat H4IIE cells. The Vmax. for CPT-I in hepatic mitochondrial outer membranes isolated from starved and diabetic rats increased 2- and 3-fold respectively over fed control values with no change in Km values for substrates. Regulation of malonyl-CoA sensitivity of CPT-I in isolated mitochondrial outer membranes was indicated by an 8-fold increase in Ki during starvation and by a 50-fold increase in Ki in the diabetic state. Peroxisomal and microsomal CPT also had decreased sensitivity to inhibition by malonyl-CoA during starvation. CPT-I mRNA abundance was 7.5 times greater in livers of 48-h-starved rats and 14.6 times greater in livers of insulin-dependent diabetic rats compared with livers of fed rats. In H4IIE cells, insulin increased CPT-I sensitivity to inhibition by malonyl-CoA in 4 h, and sensitivity continued to increase up to 24 h after insulin addition. CPT-I mRNA levels in H4IIE cells were decreased by insulin after 4 h and continued to decrease so that at 24 h there was a 10-fold difference. The half-life of CPT-I mRNA was 4 h in the presence of actinomycin D or with actinomycin D plus insulin. These results suggest that insulin regulates CPT-I by inhibiting transcription of the CPT-I gene.
AuthorsE A Park, R L Mynatt, G A Cook, K Kashfi
JournalThe Biochemical journal (Biochem J) Vol. 310 ( Pt 3) Pg. 853-8 (Sep 15 1995) ISSN: 0264-6021 [Print] England
PMID7575418 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Hypoglycemic Agents
  • Insulin
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Dactinomycin
  • Malonyl Coenzyme A
  • Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase
Topics
  • Animals
  • Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase (biosynthesis, metabolism)
  • Cell Line
  • Dactinomycin (pharmacology)
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental (enzymology)
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 (enzymology)
  • Enzyme Inhibitors (pharmacology)
  • Hypoglycemic Agents (pharmacology)
  • Insulin (pharmacology)
  • Intracellular Membranes (enzymology)
  • Male
  • Malonyl Coenzyme A (pharmacology)
  • Mitochondria, Liver (enzymology)
  • RNA, Messenger (metabolism)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Starvation (enzymology)

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