scholarly journals Glucagon Activates the AMP‐Activated Protein Kinase/Acetyl‐CoA Carboxylase Pathway in Adipocytes

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I‐Chen Peng ◽  
Zhen Chen ◽  
Pang‐Hung Hsu ◽  
Mei‐I Su ◽  
Ming‐Daw Tsai ◽  
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2005 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 1221-1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Rubink ◽  
W. W. Winder

AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) has previously been demonstrated to phosphorylate and inactivate skeletal muscle acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC), the enzyme responsible for synthesis of malonyl-CoA, an inhibitor of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 and fatty acid oxidation. Contraction-induced activation of AMPK with subsequent phosphorylation/inactivation of ACC has been postulated to be responsible in part for the increase in fatty acid oxidation that occurs in muscle during exercise. These studies were designed to answer the question: Does phosphorylation of ACC by AMPK make palmitoyl-CoA a more effective inhibitor of ACC? Purified rat muscle ACC was subjected to phosphorylation by AMPK. Activity was determined on nonphosphorylated and phosphorylated ACC preparations at acetyl-CoA concentrations ranging from 2 to 500 μM and at palmitoyl-CoA concentrations ranging from 0 to 100 μM. Phosphorylation resulted in a significant decline in the substrate saturation curve at all palmitoyl-CoA concentrations. The inhibitor constant for palmitoyl-CoA inhibition of ACC was reduced from 1.7 ± 0.25 to 0.85 ± 0.13 μM as a consequence of phosphorylation. At 0.5 mM citrate, ACC activity was reduced to 13% of control values in response to the combination of phosphorylation and 10 μM palmitoyl-CoA. Skeletal muscle ACC is more potently inhibited by palmitoyl-CoA after having been phosphorylated by AMPK. This may contribute to low-muscle malonyl-CoA values and increasing fatty acid oxidation rates during long-term exercise when plasma fatty acid concentrations are elevated.


2003 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1523-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Christopher ◽  
Zhi-Ping Chen ◽  
Christian Rantzau ◽  
Bruce E. Kemp ◽  
Frank P. Alford

The effect of diabetes and exercise on skeletal muscle (SkM) AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)α1 and -α2 activities and site-specific phosphorylation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase was examined in the same six dogs before alloxan (35 mg/kg)-induced diabetes (C) and after 4-5 wk of suboptimally controlled hyperglycemic and hypoinsulinemic diabetes (DHG) in the presence and absence of 300-min phlorizin (50 μg·kg-1·min-1)-induced “normoglycemia” (DNG). In each study, the dog underwent a 150-min [3-3H]glucose infusion period, followed by a 30-min treadmill exercise test (60-70% maximal oxygen capacity) to measure the rate of glucose disposal into peripheral tissues (Rdtissue). SkM biopsies were taken from the thigh (vastus lateralis) before and immediately after exercise. In the C and DHG states, the rise in plasma free fatty acids (FFA) with exercise (∼40%) was similar. In the DNG group, preexercise FFA were significantly higher, but the absolute rise in FFA with exercise was similar. However, the exercise-induced increment in Rdtissue was significantly blunted (by ∼40-50%) in the DNG group compared with the other states. In SkM, preexercise AMPKα1 and -α2 activities were significantly elevated (by ∼60-125%) in both diabetic states, but unlike the C group these activities did not rise further with exercise. Additionally, preexercise acetyl-CoA carboxylase phosphorylation in both diabetic states was elevated by ∼70-80%, but the increases with exercise were similar to the C group. Preexercise AMPKα1 and -α2 activities were negatively correlated with Rdtissue during exercise for the combined groups (both P < 0.02). In conclusion, the elevated preexercise SkM AMPKα1 and -α2 activities contribute to the ongoing basal supply of glucose and fatty acid metabolism in suboptimally controlled hypoinsulinemic diabetic dogs; but whether they also play a permissive role in the metabolic stress response to exercise remains uncertain.


2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1059-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Munday

Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) plays a critical role in the regulation of fatty acid metabolism and its two isoforms, ACCα and ACCβ, appear to have distinct functions in the control of fatty acid synthesis and fatty acid oxidation, respectively. They are regulated by similar short-term mechanisms of allosteric activation by citrate, and reversible phosphorylation and inactivation, and there is clearly interaction between these mechanisms. AMP-activated protein kinase is the important physiological ACC kinase for both isoforms and yet there is a potential physiological role for cAMP-dependent protein kinase in the hormonally mediated inactivation of ACCα, and phosphorylation of ACCβ in its unique N-terminus.


1997 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Winder ◽  
H. A. Wilson ◽  
D. G. Hardie ◽  
B. B. Rasmussen ◽  
C. A. Hutber ◽  
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Winder, W. W., H. A. Wilson, D. G. Hardie, B. B. Rasmussen, C. A. Hutber, G. B. Call, R. D. Clayton, L. M. Conley, S. Yoon, and B. Zhou. Phosphorylation of rat muscle acetyl-CoA carboxylase by AMP-activated protein kinase and protein kinase A. J. Appl. Physiol. 82(1): 219–225, 1997—This study was designed to compare functional effects of phosphorylation of muscle acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) by adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and by AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). Muscle ACC (272 kDa) was phosphorylated and then subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by autoradiography. Functional effects of phosphorylation were determined by measuring ACC activity at different concentrations of each of the substrates and of citrate, an activator of the enzyme. The maximal velocity ( V max) and the Michaelis constants ( K m) for ATP, acetyl-CoA, and bicarbonate were unaffected by phosphorylation by PKA. Phosphorylation by AMPK increased the K m for ATP and acetyl-CoA. Sequential phosphorylation by PKA and AMPK, first without label and second with label, appeared to reduce the extent of label incorporation, regardless of the order. The activation constant ( K a) for citrate activation was increased to the same extent by AMPK phosphorylation, regardless of previous or subsequent phosphorylation by PKA. Thus muscle ACC can be phosphorylated by PKA but with no apparent functional effects on the enzyme. AMPK appears to be the more important regulator of muscle ACC.


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