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Query: EC:6.4.1.2 (
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
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32P-labeled
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
was isolated from 32P-labeled rat epididymal fat pads by avidin-Sepharose affinity chromatography after exposure to epinephrine and
insulin
. Epinephrine led to an inactivation of the isolated enzyme by a reduction of Vmax, while the
insulin
stimulation observed in crude extracts did not survive enzyme purification. Both
insulin
and epinephrine caused only small increases in total 32P content of the enzyme. However, mapping of tryptic 32P-phosphopeptides by high performance liquid chromatography revealed that epinephrine and
insulin
stimulated the phosphorylation of 32P-peptides specific for each hormone. The major 32P-peptide phosphorylated by epinephrine co-migrated with the major 32P-peptide phosphorylated in vitro by the cAMP-dependent protein kinase, while the 32P-peptide phosphorylated in response to
insulin
co-migrated with that phosphorylated by casein kinase-I and casein kinase-II. The effects of epinephrine on carboxylase activity and phosphorylation can thus be accounted for by the expected epinephrine-induced activation of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase. While the increase in site-specific phosphorylation caused by
insulin
cannot be directly linked to
insulin
-induced activation in crude extracts, these data suggest that casein kinase-I and/or casein kinase-II may mediate the
insulin
-stimulated phosphorylation of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
.
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PMID:Stimulation of site-specific phosphorylation of acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase by insulin and epinephrine. 613 73
1. The effects of intragastric glucose feeding and L-tri-iodothyronine (T3) administration on rates of hepatic and brown-fat lipogenesis in vivo were examined in fed and 48 h-starved rats. 2. T3 treatment increased hepatic lipogenesis in the fed but not the starved animals. Brown-fat lipogenesis was unaffected or slightly decreased by T3 treatment of fed or starved rats. 3. Intragastric glucose feeding increased hepatic lipogenesis in control or T3-treated fed rats, but did not increase hepatic lipogenesis in starved control rats. Glucose feeding increased hepatic lipogenesis if the starved rats were treated with T3. Glucose feeding increased rates of brown-fat lipogenesis in all experimental groups. The effects of glucose feeding on liver and brown-fat lipogenesis were mimicked by
insulin
injection. 4. The increase in hepatic lipogenesis in T3-treated 48 h-starved rats after intragastric glucose feeding was prevented by short-term
insulin
deficiency, but not by (-)-hydroxycitrate, an inhibitor of ATP citrate lyase. The increase in lipogenesis in brown adipose tissue in response to glucose feeding was inhibited by both short-term
insulin
deficiency and (-)-hydroxycitrate. 5. The results tend to preclude pyruvate kinase and
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
as the sites of interaction of
insulin
and T3 in the regulation of hepatic lipogenesis in 48 h-starved rats. Other potential sites of interaction are discussed.
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PMID:Interactions between insulin and thyroid hormone in the control of lipogenesis. 613 16
Insulin
stimulates fatty acid synthesis in white and brown fat cells as well as in liver and mammary tissue. Hormones that increase cellular cyclic AMP concentrations inhibit fatty acid synthesis, at least in white adipose tissue and liver. These changes in fatty acid synthesis occur within minutes. In white fat cells, they are brought about not only by changes in glucose transport but also changes in the activities of pyruvate kinase, pyruvate dehydrogenase and
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
. The basis of the alterations in pyruvate kinase activity in fat cells is not understood. Unlike the liver isoenzyme, the isoenzyme present in fat cells does not appear to be phosphorylated either in the absence or presence of hormones. The changes in pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in fat cells are undoubtedly due to changes in phosphorylation of the alpha subunits.
Insulin
appears to act by causing the parallel dephosphorylation of all three sites. The persistence of the effect of
insulin
during the preparation and subsequent incubation of mitochondria has allowed the demonstration that
insulin
acts mainly by stimulating pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase rather than inhibiting the kinase.
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase
within fat cells is phosphorylated on a number of different sites. The exposure of cells to
insulin
leads to activation of the enzyme and this is associated with increased phosphorylation of a specific site on the enzyme. Exposure to adrenalin, which results in a marked diminution in activity, also causes a small increase in the overall level of phosphorylation, but this increase is due to an enhanced phosphorylation of different sites; probably those phosphorylated by cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase.
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase
is one of a number of proteins in fat cells that exhibit increased phosphorylation with
insulin
. Others include ATP-citrate lyase, the ribosomal protein S6, the beta subunit of the insulin receptor and a heat and acid stable protein of Mr 22000. Changes in phosphorylation of ATP-citrate lyase do not appear to result in any appreciable changes in catalytic activity. A central aspect of
insulin
action may be the activation and perhaps release of a membrane-associated protein kinase. Plasma membranes from fat cells have been shown to contain a cyclic-nucleotide-independent kinase able to phosphorylate and activate
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
. Furthermore, high-speed supernatant fractions from cells previously exposed to
insulin
contain elevated levels of the same or similar kinase activity capable of phosphorylating both ATP-citrate lyase and
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
.
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PMID:The role of phosphorylation in the regulation of fatty acid synthesis by insulin and other hormones. 613 7
Despite the hyperphagia, the food intake of the lactating rat showed marked diurnal changes which paralleled those of virgin rats. The major difference was that lactating rats consumed a higher proportion (35%) of their diet during the light period than did virgin rats (14%). The peak rate of lipogenesis in the lactating mammary gland occurred around midnight, and this decreased by 67% to reach a nadir around mid-afternoon; this corresponded with the period of lowest food intake. The diurnal variations in hepatic lipogenesis in lactating rats were much less marked. The changes in hepatic glycogen over 24 h suggest that it acts to supply carbon for lipogenesis during the period of decreased food intake. The activation state of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
in mammary gland altered during 24 h, but the changes did not always correlate with alterations in the rate of lipogenesis. The changes in plasma
insulin
concentration tended to parallel the food intake in the lactating rats, but they did not appear to be sufficient to explain the large alterations in lipogenic rate in the mammary gland.
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PMID:Diurnal variations in food intake and in lipogenesis in mammary gland and liver of lactating rats. 613 13
Current studies on the synthesis of long-chain fatty acids by isolated rat liver cells are largely concerned with the regulation of the activity of previously existing
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
and fatty acid synthetase, and with the regulation of the quantity of these enzymes. These studies have required the development of methods for obtaining high yields of viable hepatocytes that respond to hormonal treatment. Such methods have been developed over the past 10-15 years through the efforts of several laboratories. These studies have also required the development of a method to determine whether a change in the activity of an enzyme is due to a modification of preexisting enzyme or to a change in quantity of that enzyme. The most satisfactory method to use for such studies is immunotitration of enzyme activity. In recent years studies on the regulation of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
have largely centered upon the effect of phosphorylation-dephosphorylation on the activity of this enzyme and whether glucagon inhibits the activity of this enzyme through this process. Much data from a number of laboratories have suggested that glucagon regulates the activity of this enzyme through phosphorylation-dephosphorylation. However, several of these studies involved the use of crude systems in which competing enzymes and substrates that can significantly interfere with
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
activity measurements were still present. Hence, a confirmation of these studies needs to be carried out under conditions in which the effects of competing enzymes and substrates are eliminated. Studies on changes in quantity of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
and fatty acid synthetase have shown that these enzymes are induced by the fasting and refeeding of animals. They have also shown that
insulin
stimulates (10- to 30-fold) the induction of these enzymes. This induction appears to be due to a change in the quantity of translatable mRNA which may, in turn, be due to a change in the rate of transcription of the genes coding for these enzymes.
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PMID:Induction of fatty acid synthetase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase by isolated rat liver cells. 613 62
One-half of the palmitate utilized by the lung for production of the surfactant phospholipid, dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine, originates from de novo palmitate synthesis in the lung. In this report the lung was examined for the influence of dietary fat on the lung de novo fatty acid synthesis pathway. Lung lipogenesis was reduced by fasting and accelerated by carbohydrate refeeding or
insulin
injection. However, in general lung fatty acid synthesis was unaffected by dietary fat. Supplementing one meal (high glucose diet) with as much as 36% additional fat kilocalories did not suppress lung fatty acid synthesis. An inhibition of fatty acid synthesis resulted from a fat supplement of +60 and +120% of meal kilocalories, but this inhibition was likely due to an attenuated rate of glucose absorption. Ingestion of a high carbohydrate diet supplemented with 10, 17, or 30% added kilocalories as safflower oil or palmitate had no effect on lipogenesis after 10 days. On the other hand, liver fatty acid synthesis and
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
were selectively suppressed by safflower oil, whereas dietary palmitate was ineffective as an inhibitor of lipogenesis. These data clearly demonstrate that the well-characterized preferential suppression of liver lipogenesis by dietary polyunsaturated fats does not extend to lung tissue, and, more importantly, the inhibition of liver lipogenesis is not secondary to an essential fatty acid deficiency. The marked resistance of lung fatty acid synthesis to inhibition by dietary fat might be a biological protective mechanism to ensure adequate palmitate for dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine synthesis.
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PMID:Resistance of lung fatty acid synthesis to inhibition by dietary fat in the meal-fed rat. 614
Elevated serum lipids are associated with infections of laboratory rodents with plerocercoids of Spirometra mansonoides. The effect of infection with these larval tapeworms on triglyceride degradation and hepatic de novo fatty acid synthesis was investigated in Syrian hamsters. Serum lipoprotein electrophoresis revealed a consistent elevation in very low density lipoproteins in the infected animals. Lipoprotein lipase activity was enhanced in the infected animals. After seven days of plerocercoid infection the activity of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
(E.C. 6.4.1.2) was significantly elevated after 6, 12 and 18 hours of fasting. Fatty acid synthetase was significantly increased after 0, 6, 12, 18 and 24 hours of fasting. Therefore, a chronic
insulin
-like activity on lipid metabolism of hamsters is associated with plerocercoid infection.
...
PMID:Insulin-like effects of fatty acid synthesis in liver of hamsters infected with plerocercoids of the tapeworm, Spirometra mansonoides. 614 78
Protein kinase activity in high-speed supernatant fractions prepared from rat epididymal adipose tissue previously incubated in the absence or presence of
insulin
was investigated by following the incorporation of 32P from [gamma-32P]ATP into phosphoproteins separated by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electro-phoresis. Incorporation of 32P into several endogenous proteins in the supernatant fractions from
insulin
-treated tissue was significantly increased. These included
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
and ATP citrate lyase (which exhibit increased phosphorylation within fat-cells exposed to
insulin
), together with two unknown proteins of subunit Mr 78000 and 43000. The protein kinase activity increased by
insulin
was distinct from cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, was not dependent on Ca2+ and was not appreciably affected by dialysis or gel filtration. The rate of phosphorylation of added purified fat-cell
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
and ATP citrate lyase was also increased by 60-90% in high-speed-supernatant fractions prepared from
insulin
-treated tissue. No evidence for any persistent changes in phosphoprotein phosphatase activity was found. It is concluded that
insulin
action on
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
, ATP citrate lyase and other intracellular proteins exhibiting increased phosphorylation involves an increase in cyclic AMP-independent protein kinase activity in the cytoplasm. The possibility that the increase reflects translocation from the plasma membrane, perhaps after phosphorylation by the protein tyrosine kinase associated with
insulin
receptors, is discussed.
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PMID:Studies on insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase, ATP citrate lyase and other proteins in rat epididymal adipose tissue. Evidence for activation of a cyclic AMP-independent protein kinase. 614 4
The carbohydrate-dependent long-term regulation of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
was studied in primary hepatocyte cultures from adult rats. (1) The enzyme activity was increased 2-fold either by elevation of the glucose concentration to 20mM or by enhancement of the
insulin
concentration to 0.1 microM. Simultaneous increases in glucose and
insulin
resulted in a 5-fold increase in the enzyme activity. (2) As shown by immunochemical titration, the enhancement of the enzyme activity was due to an increase in the enzyme protein. (3) Incorporation of [35S]methionine and immunoprecipitation of the enzyme revealed that the increase in enzyme protein was due to an increased rate of enzyme synthesis. The rate of enzyme degradation remained essentially unchanged. (4) The glucose- and
insulin
-dependent induction of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
was prevented by the addition of alpha-amanitin (10 microM) or cordycepin (10 microM), indicating a transcriptional regulation of the enzyme level. (5) The parallel induction of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
and of ATP citrate lyase indicates a co-ordinate long-term regulation of lipogenic enzymes.
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PMID:Glucose-dependent induction of acetyl-CoA carboxylase in rat hepatocyte cultures. 614 72
The activity of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
, measured in various ways, was studied in 15000g extracts of rat liver hepatocytes and compared with the rate of fatty acid synthesis in intact hepatocytes incubated with
insulin
or glucagon. Hepatocyte extracts were prepared by disruption of cells with a Dounce homogenizer or by solubilization with 1.5% (v/v) Triton X-100. Sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation demonstrated that the sedimentation coefficient of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
from cell extracts was 30-35S, regardless of the conditions of incubation or disruption of hepatocytes. Solubilization of cells with 1.5% Triton X-100 yielded twice as much enzyme activity (measured by [14C]bicarbonate fixation) in the sucrose-gradient fractions as did cell disruption by the Dounce homogenizer. Analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
reaction mixtures showed that [14C]malonyl-CoA accounted for 10-60% of the total acid-stable radioactivity, depending on the method for disrupting hepatocytes and on the preincubation of the 15000g extract, with or without citrate, before assay. Under conditions in which incubation of cells with
insulin
or glucagon caused an activation or inhibition, respectively, of
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
, only 25% of the acid-stable radioactivity was [14C]malonyl-CoA and enzyme activity was only 13% (control), 16% (
insulin
), and 57% (glucagon) of the rate of fatty acid synthesis. Under conditions when up to 60% of the acid-stable radioactivity was [14C]malonyl-CoA and
acetyl-CoA carboxylase
activity was comparable with the rate of fatty acid synthesis, there was no effect of
insulin
or glucagon on enzyme activity.
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PMID:Studies on the assay, activity and sedimentation behaviour of acetyl-CoA carboxylase from isolated hepatocytes incubated with insulin or glucagon. 614 77
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