scholarly journals The Relationship between the Rates of Conversion of Palmitate into Citrate or Acetoacetate and the Acetyl-Coenzyme A Content of Rat-Liver Mitochondria

1965 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 38C-40C ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Shepher ◽  
D. W. Yates ◽  
P. B. Garland
1965 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
PB Garland ◽  
D Shepherd ◽  
DW Yates

1. Fluorimetric assays are described for CoASH, acetyl-CoA and long-chain fatty acyl-CoA, and are sensitive to at least 50mumumoles of each. 2. Application of these assays to rat-liver mitochondria oxidizing palmitate in the absence and presence of carnitine indicated two pools of intramitochondrial CoA. One pool could be acylated by palmitate and ATP, and the other pool acylated by palmitate with ATP and carnitine, or by palmitoylcarnitine alone. 3. The intramitochondrial content of acetyl-CoA is increased by the oxidation of palmitate both in the absence and presence of l-malate. 4. The conversion of palmitoyl-CoA into acetyl-CoA by beta-oxidation takes place without detectable accumulation of acyl-CoA intermediates.


1979 ◽  
Vol 177 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus-P. Grigat ◽  
Klaus Koppe ◽  
Claus-D. Seufert ◽  
Hans-D Söling

Whole liver and isolated liver mitochondria are able to release free acetate, especially under conditions of increased fatty acid oxidation. In the present paper it is shown that rat liver contains acetyl-CoA deacylase (EC 3.1.2.1) activity (0.72μmol/min per g wet wt. of liver at 30°C and 0.5mm-acetyl-CoA). At 0.5mm-acetyl-CoA 73% of total enzyme activity was found in the mitochondria, 8% in the lysosomal fraction and 19% in the postmicrosomal supernatant. Mitochondrial subfractionation shows that mitochondrial acetyl-CoA deacylase activity is restricted to the matrix space. Mitochondrial acetyl-CoA deacylase showed almost no activity with either butyryl- or hexanoyl-CoA. Acetyl-CoA hydrolase activity from purified rat liver lysosomes exhibited a very low affinity for acetyl-CoA (apparent Km>15mm compared with an apparent Km value of 0.5mm for the mitochondrial enzyme) and reacted at about the same rate with acetyl-, n-butyryl- and hexanoyl-CoA. We could not confirm the findings of Costa & Snoswell [(1975) Biochem. J.152, 167–172] according to which mitochondrial acetyl-CoA deacylase was considered to be an artifact resulting from the combined actions of acetyl-CoA–l-carnitine acetyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.7) and acetylcarnitine hydrolase. The results are in line with the concept that free acetate released by the liver under physiological conditions stems from the intramitochondrial deacylation of acetyl-CoA.


1967 ◽  
Vol 242 (9) ◽  
pp. 2111-2115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauro Galzigna ◽  
Carlo R. Rossi ◽  
Lodovico Sartorelli ◽  
David M. Gibson

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