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Query: EC:2.3.1.21 (CPT)
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Rat hepatic mitochondrial function, including oxidative phosphorylation, fatty acid oxidative capacity, kinetic parameters of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT I), and sensitivity of CPT I to malonyl-CoA inhibition were studied in vitro in isolated mitochondria following Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The hepatic mitochondrial CPT I in LPS-treated rats showed a lower apparent maximum velocity (Vmax) for palmitoyl-CoA and Ki for malonyl-CoA without changes in apparent Km for palmitoyl-CoA. The rate of oxygen consumption or end-product formation of palmitoyl-L-carnitine and octanoate was not altered, but the rate of CPT I-dependent palmitoyl-CoA (plus L-carnitine) oxidation was reduced by LPS, when acetyl-CoA produced via beta-oxidation was directed toward citrate. When acetyl-CoA was directed to acetoacetate, the oxygen consumption rates of palmitoyl-L-carnitine and palmitoyl-CoA (plus L-carnitine) were decreased by LPS, although mitochondrial 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase activity was not altered. These results indicate that hepatic mitochondria isolated from LPS-treated rats show lower ketogenic and long-chain acyl-CoA oxidative capacity than those of fasted controls, and inhibition of ketogenesis is elicited at a site distal to CPT I in addition to reduction in CPT I activity.
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PMID:Altered hepatic mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation and ketogenesis in endotoxic rats. 222 Oct 51

In this paper we report that palmitoyl-L-carnitine can be a metabolic intermediate of the fatty acid incorporation pathway into erythrocyte membrane phosphatidylcholine, and phosphatidylethanolamine. Phospholipid acylation was evaluated by measuring the incorporation of radioactive [1-14C]-palmitoyl-L-carnitine in membrane erythrocyte ghost phospholipids in the presence or absence of CoA. CoA highly stimulated the incorporation of [1-14C]-palmitic acid into both the phospholipids examined, although the incorporation was also evident in the absence of added CoA. Incorporation of [1-14C]-palmitic acid into phosphatidylcholine was greater than into phosphatidylethanolamine. 2-Bromo-palmitoyl-CoA, an irreversible inhibitor of the erythrocyte carnitine palmitoyltransferase, inhibited the acylation process.
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PMID:Palmitoyl-L-carnitine, a metabolic intermediate of the fatty acid incorporation pathway in erythrocyte membrane phospholipids. 225 17

Long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) are oxidized by muscle mitochondria after transport in the cytosol by fatty-acid-binding protein(s) and their activation by a thiokinase. Carnitine, two forms of carnitine palmitoyltransferase(s) and carnitine acylcarnitine translocase are involved in LCFA gating. A primary genetic carnitine deficiency occurs in children with dilated cardiomyopathy, hypoglycaemia and low carnitine content in plasma, liver and muscle, owing to a defect in a common high-affinity transport system. This high-affinity transport in muscle differs from a low-affinity transport that has modifications during muscle maturation. The genetic enzyme defects of beta-oxidation (long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, medium- and short-chain acyl-CoA-dehydrogenase) present with Reye-like attacks that may lead to non-ketotic hypoglycaemia, coma and sudden infant death syndrome. There is elevated urinary excretion of dicarboxylic acids, acylcarnitines and acylglycines. Secondary carnitine deficiency may occur. ETF and ETF dehydrogenase deficiencies may present in a neonatal form with congenital anomalies, or in a later-onset form with ethylmalonic adipic aciduria. A still-unidentified defect leads to LCFA accumulation in fibroblasts, bone marrow, liver and muscle cells in a multisystem triglyceride disorder.
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PMID:Defects of fatty-acid oxidation in muscle. 226 28

In vivo administration of nicardipine, a known calcium antagonist, suppressed the clofibrate-evoked induction of activities of peroxisomal enzymes, such as catalase, the peroxisomal fatty acyl-CoA oxidizing system, carnitine acetyltransferase and mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase in rat liver. On a time-course study, the suppression of induction in the activities of the peroxisomal fatty acyl-CoA oxidizing system and carnitine acetyltransferase was found at 5 days after the treatment, whereas the induction by clofibrate was already observed at 1 day after the treatment, suggesting that in the process of peroxisome induction by clofibrate there might be two steps, i.e., a triggering step and an enhancing step, and nicardipine might act as suppressor for the later step. The precursor-incorporation studies with [3H]leucine showed that the rate of the synthesis of the peroxisomal bifunctional enzyme was increased by 4.2-fold after clofibrate-treatment, whereas nicardipine suppressed this enhancement to only 2.2-fold of the control. The rate of degradation of this enzyme was not affected by any treatment. These results show that nicardipine affects the regulation mechanism of the biosynthesis of this enzyme. Nicardipine showed hardly any suppressive-effect on the hepatic peroxisomal enzyme induction observed in high-fat diet fed rat. Furthermore, the suppression of clofibrate-evoked induction of peroxisomal enzymes was observed also in mice. These interesting findings suggest that there is a difference in the mechanism of peroxisome proliferation and/or the induction of peroxisomal enzymes between clofibrate and physiological conditions, such as high-fat diet feeding. The suppression of drug-induced peroxisome proliferation by calcium antagonists may help in dissecting the causal relationship between the multiple effects mediated by peroxisomal proliferators.
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PMID:Characteristics of the suppressive effect of nicardipine on peroxisome induction in rat liver. 229 37

Bis(carboxymethylthio)-1.10 decane (BCMTD), a thiodicarboxylic acid, was shown to be a hypolipidemic peroxisome-proliferating drug as it: (a) decreased the total serum triacylglycerols and cholesterol; (b) induced hepatomegaly; (c) increased the peroxisomal beta-oxidation and catalase activity and the activities of the multiorganelle localized enzymes: palmitoyl-CoA synthetase, palmitoyl-CoA hydrolase, glycerophosphate acyltransferase; (d) decreased the carnitine palmitoyltransferase and urate oxidase activities; and (e) induced the bifunctional eonyl-CoA hydratase in peroxisomes. The present study has confirmed the effect of tiadenol administration on the activities of key enzymes involved in hepatic fatty acid metabolism in male rats. However, the hepatic pleiotropic response was more marked with the dicarboxylic acid than with its alcohol. In a separate dose-response study BCMTD was found to be a more potent inducer of peroxisomal beta-oxidation compared to tiadenol. BCMTD can be activated in vitro to its coenzyme A thioester by a dicarboxyl-CoA synthetase. In control and BCMTD-treated animals, the synthetase activity was found in all cellular fractions except the cytosolic. Whether the acyl-CoA thioesters of peroxisome-proliferating drugs may be mediators of peroxisomal proliferation should be considered.
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PMID:The hypolipidemic peroxisome-proliferating drug, bis(carboxymethylthio)-1.10 decane, a dicarboxylic metabolite of tiadenol, is activated to an acylcoenzyme A thioester. 230 62

The activities of carnitine palmitoyltransferases (CPTs) of mitochondrial outer and inner membranes and of peroxisomes have been studied with carnitine analogues, namely DL-thiolcarnitine, DL-sulphocarnitine and L-aminocarnitine, using palmitoyl-CoA or octanoyl-CoA as co-substrate. With sulphocarnitine, both of the mitochondrial CPTs and the malonyl-CoA-sensitive CPT of peroxisomes showed appreciable activity with palmitoyl-CoA, but relatively lower activity when octanoyl-CoA was the co-substrate. The soluble CPT of peroxisomes did not show any activity with sulphocarnitine in the presence of either acyl-CoA. With thiolcarnitine, all of the CPTs showed more activity with palmitoyl-CoA than with octanoyl-CoA. None of the CPTs showed any activity with aminocarnitine and palmitoyl-CoA, but when the acyl donor was octanoyl-CoA, both of the malonyl-CoA-sensitive CPT enzymes showed considerable activity, unlike the malonyl-CoA-insensitive CPT isoenzymes. Aminocarnitine inhibited palmitoylcarnitine formation by both of the mitochondrial CPTs and by the CPT of gradient-purified peroxisomes, but the purified peroxisomal soluble CPT was not inhibited. These results show that the interaction of CPT enzymes with carnitine analogues, as substrates or inhibitors, is influenced by the chain length of the acyl-CoA substrate, and that the use of the appropriate carnitine analogue and acyl-CoA is likely to be useful for the discrimination of the various CPT activities in CPT deficiency disorders.
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PMID:Acyl-CoA chain length affects the specificity of various carnitine palmitoyltransferases with respect to carnitine analogues. Possible application in the discrimination of different carnitine palmitoyltransferase activities. 232 85

1. The interaction of malonyl-CoA with the outer carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) system of rat liver mitochondria was re-evaluated by using preparations of highly purified outer membranes, in the light of observations that other subcellular structures that normally contaminate crude mitochondrial preparations also contain malonyl-CoA-sensitive CPT activity. 2. In outer-membrane preparations, which were purified about 200-fold with respect to the inner-membrane-matrix fraction, malonyl-CoA binding was largely accounted for by a single high-affinity component (KD = 0.03 microM), in contrast with the dual site (low- and high-affinity) previously found with intact mitochondria. 3. There was no evidence that the decreased sensitivity of CPT to malonyl-CoA inhibition observed in outer membranes obtained from 48 h-starved rats (compared with those from fed animals) was due to a decreased ratio of malonyl-CoA binding to CPT catalytic moieties. Thus CPT specific activity and maximal high-affinity [14C]malonyl-CoA binding (expressed per mg of protein) were increased 2.2- and 2.0-fold respectively in outer membranes from 48 h-starved rats. 4. Palmitoyl-CoA at a concentration that was saturating for CPT activity (5 microM) decreased the affinity of malonyl-CoA binding by an order of magnitude, but did not alter the maximal binding of [14C]malonyl-CoA. 5. Preincubation of membranes with either tetradecylglycidyl-CoA or 2-bromopalmitoyl-CoA plus carnitine resulted in marked (greater than 80%) inhibition of high-affinity binding, concurrently with greater than 95% inhibition of CPT activity. These treatments also unmasked an effect of subsequent treatment with palmitoyl-CoA to increase low-affinity [14C]malonyl-CoA binding. 6. These data are discussed in relation to the possible mechanism of interaction between the malonyl-CoA-binding site and the active site of the enzyme.
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PMID:Re-evaluation of the interaction of malonyl-CoA with the rat liver mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase system by using purified outer membranes. 232 91

The goal of this study was to establish conditions for solubilization and characterization of CPTo, the malonyl-CoA sensitive form of mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase. CPTo of heart mitochondria is soluble in 1% octyl glucoside with retention of malonyl-CoA sensitivity. The degree of malonyl-CoA sensitivity is dependent on both the concentration of octyl glucoside and the presence of salt (KCl). In mannitol-sucrose, 0.5-1% octyl glucoside solubilizes CPTo without loss of malonyl-CoA sensitivity; however, either increasing the detergent concentration or addition of KCl promotes loss of malonyl-CoA sensitivity. The immunoglobulin fraction from immune serum obtained from rabbits immunized with the malonyl-CoA-insensitive form of CPT (CPTi) purified from beef heart mitochondria was used for preparation of an affinity column. The antibody column retained both malonyl-CoA-sensitive and -insensitive CPT activity without apparent selectivity. In addition to CPT, several other major protein bands were detected when the antibody column eluates were subjected to SDS-PAGE; however, native gel electrophoresis gives a large, high molecular weight, diffuse band. After elution of the antibody-CPT column with salt, a 68,000-Da protein is retained by the column. The retained protein contains the CPT activity, but it is not inhibited by malonyl-CoA. Thus, salt elution separates catalysis from inhibition. When the salt eluate is subjected to affinity chromatography using agarose-CoA, two protein peaks are obtained; both bind malonyl-CoA. One of the two fractions contains beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, beta-ketothiolase, and crotonase activity. These data show that octyl glucoside solubilized CPTo and CPTi are associated with a complex that contains beta-oxidation enzymes.
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PMID:Isolation of a malonyl-CoA-sensitive CPT/beta-oxidation enzyme complex from heart mitochondria. 235 May 40

The data presented herein show that both rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum contain a medium-chain/long-chain carnitine acyltransferase, designated as COT, that is strongly inhibited by malonyl-CoA. The average percentage inhibition by 17 microM malonyl-CoA for 25 preparations is 87.4 +/- 11.7, with nine preparations showing 100% inhibition; the concentrations of decanoyl-CoA and L-carnitine were 17 microM and 1.7 mM, respectively. The concentration of malonyl-CoA required for 50% inhibition is 5.3 microM. The microsomal medium-chain/long-chain carnitine acyltransferase is also strongly inhibited by etomoxiryl-CoA, with 0.6 microM etomoxiryl-CoA producing 50% inhibition. Although palmitoyl-CoA is a substrate at low concentrations, the enzyme is strongly inhibited by high concentrations of palmitoyl-CoA; 50% inhibition is produced by 11 microM palmitoyl-CoA. The microsomal medium-chain/long-chain carnitine acyltransferase is stable to freezing at -70 degrees C, but it is labile in Triton X-100 and octylglucoside. The inhibition by palmitoyl-CoA and the approximate 200-fold higher I50 for etomoxiryl-CoA clearly distinguish this enzyme from the outer form of mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase. The microsomal medium-chain/long-chain carnitine acyltransferase is not inhibited by antibody prepared against mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase, and it is only slightly inhibited by antibody prepared against peroxisomal carnitine octanoyltransferase. When purified peroxisomal enzyme is mixed with equal amounts of microsomal activity and the mixture is incubated with the antibody prepared against the peroxisomal enzyme, the amount of carnitine octanoyltransferase precipitated is equal to all of the peroxisomal carnitine octanoyltransferase plus a small amount of the microsomal activity. This demonstrates that the microsomal enzyme is antigenically different than either of the other liver carnitine acyltransferases that show medium-chain/long-chain transferase activity. These results indicate that medium-chain and long-chain acyl-CoA conversion to acylcarnitines by microsomes in the cytosolic compartment is also modulated by malonyl-CoA.
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PMID:The medium-chain carnitine acyltransferase activity associated with rat liver microsomes is malonyl-CoA sensitive. 235 18

By using octyl glucoside in the presence of glycerol, it is possible to obtain a solubilized malonyl-CoA-sensitive carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPTo) from the outer membranes of rat liver mitochondria. H.p.l.c. on hydroxyapatite column has now allowed a clear separation of the CPTo from the malonyl-CoA-insensitive CPT activity of the inner membranes (CPTi). The separated CPTo activity showed inhibition by low micromolar concentrations of malonyl-CoA, 2-tetradecylglycidyl-CoA and etomoxir-CoA. On solubilization and fractionation, the CPTo rapidly lost activity, unlike the relatively stable CPTi activity. Reconstitution into asolectin liposomes enhanced the activity and the malonyl-CoA-sensitivity of the CPTo fractions, whereas it had no such effect on the activity or malonyl-CoA insensitivity of the CPTi fractions. A polyclonal antibody raised against the malonyl-CoA-insensitive enzyme, purified from the inner membranes, precipitated the CPTi activity, but showed no reactivity with the CPTo fractions. In Western blots, the above antibody did not react with any polypeptide of the CPTo fractions. Incubation of the outer-membrane preparations with [3H]etomoxir, in the presence of ATP and CoA, led to labelling of a 90 kDa polypeptide that in the above hydroxyapatite chromatography was eluted in the same region as the CPTo. No such polypeptide labelling was seen in the CPTi fractions. With heart and skeletal-muscle mitochondria, the correspondingly labelled polypeptide was of about 86 kDa. These results show that the CPTo and CPTi are distinct proteins, that a subunit of 90 kDa for liver and 86 kDa for muscle constitutes a component of their respective CPTo systems, and that the 66 kDa subunit of the CPTi does not constitute a part of the CPTo system.
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PMID:Characterization of a solubilized malonyl-CoA-sensitive carnitine palmitoyltransferase from the mitochondrial outer membrane as a protein distinct from the malonyl-CoA-insensitive carnitine palmitoyltransferase of the inner membrane. 236 98


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