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Query: EC:4.1.1.32 (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase)
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Glucokinase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase are key enzymes of glucose metabolism in the rat liver. The former is considered to be instrumental in regulating glucose hepatic release/uptake according to the glycaemia level, and cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is a major flux-generating enzyme for gluconeogenesis. The level of expression of both enzymes and the regulation of their mRNAs in the human liver cell were investigated. Surgical biopsies of liver from patients undergoing partial hepatectomies and parenchymal hepatocytes derived from the biopsies were used to assay glucokinase, hexokinase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activities. Hepatocytes were placed in culture and the actions of insulin, glucagon and cAMP on glucokinase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase mRNAs were studied. The main results are: (a) glucokinase accounts for 95% of the glucose phosphorylation activity of human hepatocytes, although this fact is masked in assays of total liver tissue; (b) glucokinase activity is set at a lower level in human hepatocytes than in rat hepatocytes, and vice-versa for the gluconeogenic enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase; and (c) as previously shown in rat liver, glucokinase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase mRNAs are regulated in a reciprocal fashion in human hepatocytes, insulin inducing the first enzyme and repressing the latter, whereas glucagon has opposite effects. These data have interesting implications with respect to metabolic regulation and intracellular hormone signaling in the human liver.
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PMID:Glucokinase and cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) in the human liver. Regulation of gene expression in cultured hepatocytes. 773 62

This study aimed to demonstrate directly that the thiazolidinedione pioglitazone acts as an insulin sensitizer. We tested the hypothesis that pioglitazone treatment of diabetic rats alters liver function such that responsiveness of selected genes to subsequent insulin regulation is enhanced. Although flux through gluconeogenic/glycolytic pathways involves regulation of many enzymes, we presently report the effects of insulin on expression of two key enzymes in these metabolic pathways, ie, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) and glucokinase (GK). Rats were either studied as nondiabetic controls or injected with streptozotocin as a model for insulin-deficient diabetes. Diabetic animals were treated without or with pioglitazone and subsequently examined for acute responses to insulin. Pioglitazone treatment of diabetic animals significantly enhanced the effects of insulin to reverse elevated blood glucose. Although the mean level of liver mRNA transcripts encoding PEPCK was increased to nearly 300% in diabetic animals as compared with nondiabetic controls (100%), it was significantly lower in pioglitazone-treated diabetic rats (119% of control) than in diabetic rats without pioglitazone (223% of control) after insulin treatment. By contrast, mRNA transcripts encoding GK were not detectable in diabetic animals, but were increased markedly by insulin treatment in all animal groups. Insulin-enhanced expression of GK was significantly greater in liver from animals that were treated earlier with pioglitazone (291% of control) than in liver from those that were untreated (214% of control). An amplified acute response of liver to insulin thus established pioglitazone as an insulin sensitizer. Our findings further showed that such sensitization can be developed even in the insulin-deficient state.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Insulin sensitization in diabetic rat liver by an antihyperglycemic agent. 788 86

The conversion of glucose to glycogen by direct and indirect pathways was determined from the incorporation of [6-3H,U-14C]glucose into glycogen in hepatocyte cultures isolated from fed, fasted or fasted-refed rats. Mercaptopicolinate, an inhibitor of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) was used to determine the extent by which 6-tritium is lost by mechanisms not involving flux through PEPCK. Glucose conversion to glycogen was lower in hepatocytes from fasted and higher in hepatocytes from fasted-refed rats than in hepatocytes from rats fed ad libitum. Insulin increased glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes from all nutritional states, and it decreased the 3H/14C ratio incorporated into glycogen. This increased loss of 6-tritium was only in part mercaptopicolinate-sensitive. Lactate and pyruvate (2 mM + 0.2 mM) increased glycogen deposition, largely by stimulation of glucose conversion to glycogen by the direct pathway. Insulin-induced glucokinase mRNA expression was higher in hepatocytes from fed than from fasted or refed rats whereas PEPCK mRNA expression was lowest in hepatocytes from fasted-refed rats. Hepatocyte cultures derived from different nutritional states express differences in glycogen synthesis from glucose by direct and indirect pathways as well as differences in the extent by which pyruvate cycling accounts for loss of 6-tritium.
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PMID:Glycogen synthesis from glucose by direct and indirect pathways in hepatocyte cultures from different nutritional states. 798 Dec 34

In contrast to hepatocytes, hepatoma cells lack glucokinase activity and show increased aerobic glycolysis. FTO-2B and H4IIE rat hepatoma cell lines were obtained in which the rat glucokinase gene was expressed (FTOGK and H4GK). These lines were generated by infection of the hepatoma cells with a retroviral vector carrying the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK)-glucokinase chimeric gene. Both the FTOGK and H4GK cells expressed the chimeric gene in a regulated manner, like the endogenous PEPCK gene. Glucokinase activity was detected in both FTOGK and H4GK. These cells lines showed a marked increase in glucose uptake with 18.5 mM glucose in the incubation medium. FTOGK and H4GK showed an increase in the content of glucose 6-phosphate, and were able to accumulate high levels of glycogen, in contrast to FTO-2B cells, which were unable to store the polysaccharide. In addition, cells expressing glucokinase showed high concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and substantial lactate production, which was related to the glucose concentration in the medium and the time of incubation. These results suggest that glucose phosphorylation is rate limiting for glucose uptake and utilization in FTO-2B and H4IIE cells.
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PMID:Glucokinase expression in rat hepatoma cells induces glucose uptake and is rate limiting in glucose utilization. 802 Apr 91

Oral administration of tungstate for 15 days normalized glycemia in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Simultaneously, the alterations in hepatic glucose metabolism due to diabetes were almost completely counteracted by this treatment. Thus, 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase, L-pyruvate kinase, and glycogen phosphorylase alpha activities reached levels similar to those observed in healthy animals. Hepatic levels of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and glycogen also recovered. However, the recovery of glucokinase activity and hepatic levels of glucose 6-phosphate was only partial. The total activity of glycogen synthase increased, although the activation state was not recovered. Moreover, mRNA levels of hepatic glucokinase, glycogen phosphorylase, and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase were also normalized. Tungstate administration in healthy animals also affected all these parameters, although to a much lesser extent. All these effects were similar to those previously reported for vanadate, suggesting a common mechanism of action in vivo.
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PMID:Insulin-like actions of tungstate in diabetic rats. Normalization of hepatic glucose metabolism. 805 Oct 90

The initial accumulation of glucokinase mRNA in response to insulin in cultured hepatocytes from 10-day-old suckling rats was characterized by a delay of 18-24 h with a maximal level reached after 48 h. This delay is not observed in cultured adult rat hepatocytes. When hepatocytes from 10-day-old suckling rats were cultured for 48 h in the presence of insulin (to obtain a maximal accumulation of glucokinase mRNA) and then deprived of insulin for 18 h, glucokinase mRNA returned to very low levels. Reexposure of these cultured hepatocytes to insulin allowed a rapid accumulation of glucokinase mRNA, with a maximal level reached after 8 h, as in adult rat hepatocytes. The aim of the present study was to investigate the factors responsible for the delay in insulin action during first exposure to insulin. The difference in the kinetics of glucokinase mRNA accumulation after the first and secondary exposure to insulin was due to differences in the rate of transcriptional activity of the glucokinase gene, as shown by a run-on assay on isolated nuclei. The half-life of glucokinase mRNA was similar after the first and second exposure to insulin. The delay in the initial accumulation of glucokinase mRNA in response to the first exposure to insulin was not due to elevated levels of cAMP (a potent inhibitor of glucokinase gene expression) or to a defect in insulin signalling (insulin inhibited without delay phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene expression). In contrast, it was markedly dependent upon whether glucokinase has been already expressed in vivo. Hepatocytes from rats that had already expressed glucokinase in vivo (suckling rats force-fed with glucose or rats weaned to a high-carbohydrate diet) showed no delay in their response to insulin in culture, whereas hepatocytes from rats that have never expressed glucokinase in vivo (suckling rats or rats weaned to a high-fat diet) showed a delay of 24 h. Two different inhibitors of protein synthesis (cycloheximide and puromycin) prevented the initial accumulation of glucokinase mRNA in response to the first exposure to insulin but not to the secondary accumulation of glucokinase mRNA in response to reexposure to insulin. This suggests that the synthesis of one or several insulin-dependent proteins is necessary for the first activation of glucokinase gene transcription in response to the first exposure to insulin.
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PMID:Initial expression of glucokinase gene in cultured hepatocytes from suckling rats is linked to the synthesis of an insulin-dependent protein. 805 5

We investigated whether the multiple pathophysiological signals generated in a peritonitis septic model alter the mRNA levels of glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes, and whether these alterations are associated with glucose dyshomeostasis. Rats were sham-operated in the control group, and peritonitis sepsis was produced by a 1 cm cecal incision in the septic group. At 2, 4, and 6 hr post-surgery, total cellular RNAs were isolated from livers, and Northern blots performed to measure mRNA levels of aldolase B (ADL), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), pyruvate kinase (PK), phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), and glucokinase (GK). Hepatic PEPCK enzymatic activity was measured by condensing 14CO2 with phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to form malate. Serum glucose concentrations were also measured. We found the following: At 2 hr of peritonitis sepsis, serum glucose concentrations, mRNA levels of all enzymes, and PEPCK enzymatic activity increased over control levels. At 4 hr of peritonitis sepsis, serum glucose concentrations and mRNA levels of GK and PK continued to increase; mRNA levels of all other enzymes, as well as PEPCK enzymatic activity decreased to or below control levels. At 6 hr of peritonitis sepsis, serum glucose concentrations, mRNA levels of all enzymes, and PEPCK enzymatic activity decreased to or below control levels. We concluded that sepsis affects mRNA levels of glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes at the transcriptional level, and that these alterations are associated with glucose dyshomeostasis.
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PMID:Altered levels of mRNA encoding enzymes of hepatic glucose metabolism in septic rats. 840 44

The beta cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans respond to changes in glucose concentration by varying the rate of insulin synthesis and secretion. Beta cells sense glucose concentration by the levels of the products of glucose catabolism. Distinctive beta-cell proteins glucose transporter 2 and glucokinase catalyze the first two steps in beta-cell glucose catabolism. To test whether either protein controls the sensitivity of the beta cell to glucose by controlling the rate of glucose catabolism, we used gene-transfer techniques to express the isoenzymes glucose transporter 1 and hexokinase I in beta cells and measured the response to glucose of the insulin gene promoter. Cells expressing glucose transporter 1 do not differ significantly from control cells, but in cells expressing hexokinase I, insulin promoter activity increases, reaches a maximum by 1 mM glucose, and does not respond to changes in glucose concentration within the physiologic range. We conclude that glucokinase catalyzes the rate-limiting step of glucose catabolism in beta cells and, therefore, acts as the glucose sensor. Pyruvate, the end product of anaerobic glycolysis, is readily oxidized by mitochondria in normal beta cells but cannot substitute for glucose as a stimulator of insulin synthesis and secretion. We found that pyruvate can stimulate the insulin promoter in cells expressing the bacterial gluconeogenic enzyme phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, which allows the conversion of pyruvate to phosphoenolpyruvate and the earlier intermediates of glycolysis. We conclude that the intermediates of anaerobic glycolysis between fructose 1,6-diphosphate and phosphoenolpyruvate are essential for beta-cell glucose sensing.
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PMID:Glucose sensing in pancreatic islet beta cells: the key role of glucokinase and the glycolytic intermediates. 844 91

Liver insulin resistance and glucagon-stimulated hepatic glucose production are characteristics of the diabetic state. To determine the potential role of glucose toxicity in these abnormalities, we examined whether phlorizin treatment of streptozotocin-diabetic rats resulted in altered expression of genes involved in key steps of hepatic glucose metabolism. By inhibiting renal tubular glucose reabsorption, phlorizin infusion to diabetic rats induced normoglycaemia, did not significantly alter low circulating insulinaemia, but caused a marked decrease in hyperglucagonaemia. Glucokinase and L-type pyruvate kinase mRNA levels were reduced respectively by 90% and 70% in fed diabetic rats, in close correlation with changes in enzyme activities. Eighteen days of phlorizin infusion partially restored glucokinase mRNA and activity (40% of control levels), but had no effect on L-type pyruvate kinase mRNA and activity. In contrast to the glycolytic enzymes, mRNA and activity of the gluconeogenic enzyme, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase were increased (10- and 2.2-fold, respectively) in fed diabetic rats. Phlorizin administration decreased phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase mRNA to values not different from those in control rats, while phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity remained 50% higher than that in control rats. The 50% rise in liver glucose transporter (GLUT 2) mRNA and protein, produced by diabetes, was also corrected by phlorizin treatment. In conclusion, we propose that phlorizin treatment of diabetic rats may induce a partial shift of the predominating gluconeogenesis, associated with hepatic glucose overproduction, into glycolysis, by correction of impaired pre-translational regulatory mechanisms. This could be essentially mediated through improved pancreatic alpha-cell function and subsequent lowering of hyperglucagonaemia. These observations suggest that glucagon-stimulated hepatic glucose production may result, in part, from glucose toxicity.
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PMID:Phlorizin treatment of diabetic rats partially reverses the abnormal expression of genes involved in hepatic glucose metabolism. 847 72

The Wistar fatty rat is a model of obese non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Males, but not females, develop hyperglycemia, glucouria and polyuria within 8 weeks of age. The regulation of gene expression by insulin has been shown to be differentially impaired in the liver of the fatty rats. The genes resistant to insulin include glucokinase gene and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene. In contrast, L-type pyruvate kinase gene responds to insulin normally, raising the possibility that the signaling pathway from the insulin receptor to the insulin-resistant genes, but not to the insulin-sensitive genes, is defective at a point beyond the receptor kinase in the fatty rats. On the other hand, female fatty rats develop hyperglycemia only when they are given sucrose for several weeks. This treatment causes a decrease in gucokinase while enzymes involved in gluconeogenesis are increased. Chronic feeding of sucrose also leads to hypertriglycemia and visceral fat accumulation, which is more frequently associated with abnormalities in glucose and lipid metabolisms. Fructose is believed to be the responsible component of sucrose for these effects. Hypertriglyceridemic effect of fructose is mainly due to an increase in hepatic production of VLDL. Most enzymes related to lipogenesis in the liver are induced by dietary fructose even in diabetes. L-type pyruvate kinase is one of such enzymes. Cis-acting element named PKL-III in the 5'-flanking region of this gene is shown to be responsive to dietary fructose as well as to dietary glucose. Thus, identification and characterization of a protein bound to this element could help in the further understanding of the molecular mechanism of the fructose actions.
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PMID:Insulin resistance in obesity and its molecular control. 858 76


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