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1. The acyl-CoA synthetase activity in brown adipose tissue of cold-exposed guinea pig has been studied by measuring the rate of palmitoylcarnitine formation in the presence of excess carnitine palmitoyltransferase. 2. The rate of palmitoylcarnitine formation in the mitochondria was found to be 161 plus or minus 64 nmol.mg-minus-1. min-minus-1 (n=9). 3. In the absence of added palmitate and bovine serum albumin a total of 35 plus or minus 1 nmol endogenous fatty acids.mg-minus-1 were activated with three different mitochondrial preparations. 4. Three different experimental approaches have been used to study the subcellular localization of the enzyme: (a) conventional differential centrifugation (De Duve, C., Pressman, B.C., Gianetto, R., Wattiaux, R. and Appelmans, F. (1955) Biochem. J. 60, 604-617) (B) the determination of the sediterm of different marker enzymes (Slinde, E. and Flatmark. T. (1973) Anal. Biochem. 56, 324-340) and (c) the determination of the stoichiometry between the activities of these enzymes sedimented at higher centrifugal effects. 5. Throughout all fractionation procedures, the long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase follows strictly the amine oxidase generally considered to be exclusively located on the mitochondrial outer membrane.
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PMID:The intracellular localization of long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase in brown adipose tissue. 16 54

1. The activities of long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase (acid: CoA ligase (AMP-forming), EC 6.2.1.3) and the "outer" carnitine long-chain acyltransferase (palmitoyl-CoA: L-carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase, EC 2.3.1.21) have been estimated in intact brown adipose tissue mitochondria. The assay of both enzymes is based on a coupled reaction in which the intramitochondrial (matrix) CoASH is the final acyl acceptor and the oxidation-reduction state of the flavoproteins in the acyl-CoA dehydrogens pathway is used to determine the intramitochondrial level of acyl-CoA. 2. Using endogenous fatty acids as the substrate, the progress curve of acyl-CoA synthetase activity was in most mitochondrial preparations linear within the first 30 s. When initial rates were measured, the Km value for CoASH (2.4 micron) was lower than previously determined for the acyl-CoA synthetase in brown adipose tissue mitochondria as well as in mitochondria of other tissues. The pH activity curve indicates that the unprotonated form of the fatty acids represents the substrate of acyl-CoA synthetase, i.e. similar to the effect of pH on the binding of fatty acids to bovine serum albumin. 3. Experimental evidence is presented that at temperatures higher than the transition temperature of the acyl-CoA synthetase (i.e. Tt = 19 degrees C), this enzymic reaction is rate-limiting in the sequence of coupled reactions leading to beta-oxidation in the mitochondrial matrix. 4. The initial rate of the long-chain acyl-COA synthetase reaction was estimated to v = 119 +/- 16 nmol . min-1 . mg-1 protein (mean +/- S.D., n = 5) at an optimal concentration of palmitate which exceeds that of rat heart mitochondria by a factor of 10.
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PMID:Long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase and "outer" carnitine long-chain acyltransferase activities of intact brown adipose tissue mitochondria. 69 44

In this work we have investigated the transfer of radioactive palmitic acid between membrane phospholipids and acyl-L-carnitines in intact human erythrocytes. During the incubation period of labeled erythrocyte in non-defatted bovine serum albumin, radioactivity in phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine increased. On the contrary, a decrease of radioactivity in erythrocyte palmitoyl-L-carnitine was observed. 2-Tetradecylglycidic acid, an irreversible erythrocyte carnitine palmitoyltransferase inhibitor, abolished any radioactivity changes in both phospholipids and palmitoyl-L-carnitine. Similar findings were obtained by using erythrocytes labeled with radioactive oleic acid. Our data suggest that in human erythrocytes a carnitine palmitoyltransferase-catalyzed acyl transfer from acyl-L-carnitine to phospholipids, rather than a previously described fatty acid transfer from phosphatidylcholine to phosphatidylethanolamine, is operative.
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PMID:Acyl-trafficking in membrane phospholipid fatty acid turnover: the transfer of fatty acid from the acyl-L-carnitine pool to membrane phospholipids in intact human erythrocytes. 152 Mar 20

The activity of the overt form of rat liver mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase or CPT0 (EC 2.3.1.21) towards different fatty acid substrates was studied. The following non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) and their CoA esters in the presence of 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) were tested: 16:0, 18:0, 18:1, 18:2, 18:3 omega 3, 20:4, 20:5 omega 3 and 22:6 omega 3. The data fit a square hyperbolic model for enzyme catalysis (p less than 0.001, non-linear regression). Asymptotic Vmax and K0.5, substrate concentration at one-half Vmax, were calculated using total concentrations of acyl-CoA, or unbound concentrations of NEFA. BSA was found to act as a true substrate reservoir for NEFA in that the dissociation of the NEFA-BSA complex was 10-330 times faster than the CPT0 reaction. Regardless of form (NEFA or CoA ester), 18:3 omega 3 gave the highest, while 22:6 omega 3 and 18:0 gave the lowest rates of acylcarnitine synthesis. Except for 18:3 omega 3 and 18:2, Vmax for NEFA was generally lower than for acyl-CoA, with the greatest differences observed for 20:4, 20:5 omega 3 and 22:6 omega 3, suggesting that acyl-CoA synthesis may also be important in the control of the entry of these fatty acids into the mitochondria. The data provide an enzymatic rationale for the relatively low content of 18:3 omega 3 in esterified lipid.
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PMID:Rat liver outer mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity towards long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and their CoA esters. 186 62

Substrate saturation plots of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I activity from isolated rat liver mitochondria vs. palmitoyl-CoA concentration in the presence of bovine serum albumin have been reported to yield sigmoidal kinetics. Under identical assay conditions we have confirmed these observations as reflected by nonlinear Lineweaver-Burke plots (1/vi vs. 1/[S]) an average Hill coefficient of napp. = 1.98 +/- 0.09 (Mean +/- S.E. from four separate experiments). For these determinations the enzyme activity was plotted against the total [palmitoyl-CoA] in the presence of 0.13% bovine serum albumin. Utilizing the total [palmitoyl-CoA] to determine the kinetic properties of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I would be valid only if the relationship between total and free [palmitoyl-CoA] was linear, which is not the case as we have previously shown. When carnitine palmitoyltransferase I substrate saturation kinetics were reanalyzed using the previously determined free [palmitoyl-CoA]'s, the plots revealed a shift to standard hyperbolic kinetics. This observation was confirmed by an average Hill coefficient of napp. = 1.04 +/- 0.10 (Mean +/- S.E.) and linear Lineweaver-Burke plots. The double-reciprocal plots from these analyses yielded an average S0.5 of 2.55 +/- 0.82 microM (Mean +/- S.E.) palmitoyl-CoA and Vmax of 19.69 +/- 5.48 nmol/min per mg protein. These studies clearly demonstrate the importance of defining the free [palmitoyl-CoA] when analyzing the kinetics of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I in the presence of bovine serum albumin.
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PMID:The effect of palmitoyl-CoA binding to albumin on the apparent kinetic behavior of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I. 198 92

Human carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) deficiency results in 2 clinical forms: a more common "muscular form" with myoglobinuria with or without delayed or impaired ketogenesis and a rare "hepatic form" with hypoketotic hypoglycemia, encephalopathy and seizures without muscular manifestations. We present 2 patients, a male (patient 1) and a female (patient 2) with infantile "hepatic" CPT deficiency and previously documented CPT1 deficiency in fibroblasts. In patient 2, a deficiency of "total" CPT activity in liver had also been previously documented. We set up an isotope exchange assay system that effectively differentiated CPT1 and CPT2 activities in muscle. We found normal CPT1 and CPT2 activities in our patients under near saturating substrate conditions. The CPT1 and CPT2 activities were suppressed to a strikingly similar degree under different kinetic conditions as compared to control muscle and were found to have similar Km values for carnitine and PCoA. With Km concentrations of carnitine, the mean residual activities of CPT1 for patients 1 and 2 were 49 and 44%, respectively (control range 40-53%); the mean residual activities of CPT2 were 60 and 46%, respectively (control range 49-59%). With Km concentrations of PCoA, the mean residual activities of CPT1 for patients 1 and 2 were 52 and 58%, respectively (control range of 52-59%); mean residual activities of CPT2 were 54% and 56%, respectively (control range of 51-68%). When the Vmax concentration of PCoA was doubled and bovine serum albumin reduced to 0.1%, the mean residual activities of CPT1 for patients 1 and 2 were 69 and 63%, respectively (control range 60-80%). In "muscular" patients, a marked absolute deficiency of CPT2 activity (less than 12% residual) was found with an apparent increased sensitivity to suppression of enzymatic activity when the Km concentration of carnitine was used. We suggest that CPT1 and CPT2 may be separate proteins. Furthermore, CPT1 itself may exist as tissue-specific isoforms being the same protein in liver and fibroblasts and a different protein in muscle. Either could be encoded for by the same or closely related genes.
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PMID:Normal muscle CPT1 and CPT2 activities in hepatic presentation patients with CPT1 deficiency in fibroblasts. Tissue specific isoforms of CPT1? 280 20

Bovine serum albumin is generally employed as a substrate depot for the delivery of acyl units to lipid metabolizing enzymes in vitro. Here we test the possibility that albumin alters the availability of substrate to mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase I and thereby alters its apparent kinetics. Binding competition with palmitoyl-CoA indicates that albumin has 5-6 high affinity sites which avidly bind the substrate, while isolated mitochondria compete favorably for substrate only as the albumin sites become saturated. In contrast to albumin, artificial phospholipid vesicles bind palmitoyl-CoA uniformly. Palmitoyl-CoA distribution between vesicles and mitochondrial membranes appears simply to be a function of the relative size of the two lipid compartments. Both albumin and artificial vesicles reduce the effective concentration of substrate available to the enzyme and in this way reduce apparent affinity. Direct measurement of mitochondrially bound substrate removes this effect and brings the results into agreement with an affinity constant of 6-7 nmol/mg. Changes in gross mitochondrial structure, as indicated by decreased optical density and increased nonpelleting protein, do not begin occurring until levels of mitochondrially bound palmitoyl-CoA are 15 times greater than this. The highly sigmoidal activity profile of carnitine palmitoyltransferase with respect to palmitoyl-CoA (apparent Hill coefficient = 3.0 +/- 0.3) is lost when vesicles are substituted for albumin, suggesting that albumin binding sites contribute to the sigmoidal kinetics in the range of palmitoyl-CoA studied.
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PMID:Importance of acyl-CoA availability in interpretation of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I kinetics. 319 30

The effect of malonyl-CoA on the kinetic parameters of carnitine palmitoyltransferase (outer) the outer form of carnitine palmitoyltransferase (palmitoyl-CoA: L-carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase, EC 2.3.1.21) from rat heart mitochondria was investigated using a kinetic analyzer in the absence of bovine serum albumin with non-swelling conditions and decanoyl-CoA as the cosubstrate. The K0.5 for decanoyl-CoA is 3 microM for heart mitochondria from both fed and fasted rats. Membrane-bound carnitine palmitoyltransferase (outer) shows substrate cooperativity for both carnitine and acyl-CoA, similar to that exhibited by the enzyme purified from bovine heart mitochondria. The Hill coefficient for decanoyl-CoA varied from 1.5 to 2.0, depending on the method of assay and the preparation of mitochondria. Malonyl-CoA increased the K0.5 for decanoyl-CoA with no apparent increase in sigmoidicity or Vmax. With 20 microM malonyl-CoA and a Hill coefficient of n = 2.1, the K0.5 for decanoyl-CoA increased to 185 microM. Carnitine palmitoyltransferase (outer) from fed rats had an apparent Ki for malonyl-CoA of 0.3 microM, while that from 48-h-fasted rats was 2.5 microM. The kinetics with L-carnitine were variable: for different preparations of mitochondria, the K0.5 ranged from 0.2 to 0.7 mM and the Hill coefficient varied from 1.2 to 1.8. When an isotope forward assay was used to determine the effect of malonyl-CoA on carnitine palmitoyltransferase (outer) activity of heart mitochondria from fed and fasted animals, the difference was much less than that obtained using a continuous rate assay. Carnitine palmitoyltransferase (outer) was less sensitive to malonyl-CoA at low compared to high carnitine concentrations, particularly with mitochondria from fasted animals. The data show that carnitine palmitoyltransferase (outer) exhibits substrate cooperativity for both acyl-CoA and L-carnitine in its native state. The data show that membrane-bound carnitine palmitoyltransferase (outer) like carnitine palmitoyltransferase purified from heart mitochondria exhibits substrate cooperativity indicative of allosteric enzymes and indicate that malonyl-CoA acts like a negative allosteric modifier by shifting the acyl-CoA saturation to the right. A slow form of membrane-bound carnitine palmitoyltransferase (outer) was not detected, and thus, like purified carnitine palmitoyltransferase, substrate-induced hysteretic behavior is not the cause of the positive substrate cooperativity.
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PMID:Effect of malonyl-CoA on the kinetics and substrate cooperativity of membrane-bound carnitine palmitoyltransferase of rat heart mitochondria. 368 5

The carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity of various subcellular preparations measured with octanoyl-CoA as substrate was markedly increased by bovine serum albumin at low microM concentrations of octanoyl-CoA. However, even a large excess (500 microM) of this acyl-CoA did not inhibit the activity of the mitochondrial outer carnitine palmitoyltransferase, a carnitine palmitoyltransferase isoform that is particularly sensitive to inhibition by low microM concentrations of palmitoyl-CoA. This bovine serum albumin stimulation was independent of the salt activation of the carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity. The effects of acyl-CoA binding protein (ACBP) and the fatty acid binding protein were also examined with palmitoyl-CoA as substrate. The results were in line with the findings of stronger binding of acyl-CoA to ACBP but showed that fatty acid binding protein also binds acyl-CoA esters. Although the effects of these proteins on the outer mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase activity and its malonyl-CoA inhibition varied with the experimental conditions, they showed that the various carnitine palmitoyltransferase preparations are effectively able to use palmitoyl-CoA bound to ACBP in a near physiological molar ratio of 1:1 as well as that bound to the fatty acid binding protein. It is suggested that the three proteins mentioned above affect the carnitine palmitoyltransferase activities not only by binding of acyl-CoAs, preventing acyl-CoA inhibition, but also by facilitating the removal of the acylcarnitine product from carnitine palmitoyltransferase. These results support the possibility that the acyl-CoA binding ability of acyl-CoA binding protein and of fatty acid binding protein have a role in acyl-CoA metabolism in vivo.
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PMID:Carnitine palmitoyltransferase activities: effects of serum albumin, acyl-CoA binding protein and fatty acid binding protein. 786 1

The effect of thermal acclimation on the activity of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT I), the rate-limiting enzyme for beta-oxidation of long-chain fatty acids, was determined in oxidative red muscle of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) acclimated at 5 or 25 degrees C. As observed in mammalian tissues, malonyl-CoA potently inhibited CPT I activity of mitochondria. Inhibition by malonyl-CoA required inclusions of both bovine serum albumin (BSA) and palmitoyl-CoA in the reaction media. Because BSA binds long-chain fatty acyl-CoAs, this observation suggests that free fatty acyl-CoAs may disrupt mitochondrial membranes and affect the CPT I protein. Cold acclimation increased citrate synthase activity 1.6-fold and total CPT activity 2-fold in homogenates of red muscle; free carnitine increased 62%, and specific activity of CPT I in mitochondria increased 2-fold. No differences were observed between cold- and warm-acclimated fish in substrate-binding properties of CPT I at an assay temperature of 15 degrees C, as judged by the Michaelis constant (Km) for carnitine (0.11 +/- 0.02 vs. 0.13 +/- 0.02 mM) or inhibition of CPT I, as determined by the half-maximal inhibition concentration (IC50) for malonyl-CoA (0.14 +/- 0.05 vs. 0.09 +/- 0.03 microM). Thermal sensitivity of CPT I (Q10 = 2.91 +/- 0.12 vs. 3.02 +/- 0.20) and preference of CPT I for different long-chain fatty acyl-CoA substrates (16:1-CoA = 16:0-CoA > 18:1-CoA) were not altered by thermal acclimation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Cold acclimation increases carnitine palmitoyltransferase I activity in oxidative muscle of striped bass. 814 97


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