Activation of rat heart phosphofructokinase‐2 by insulin in vivo

Abstract
Fifteen minutes after the intravenous injection of overnight starved, anaesthetized rats with insulin, the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate was increased more than 2-fold in the hearts of these animals. Insulin injection also caused a 2–3-fold increase in the V maxof phosphofructokinase-2 with no detectable change in K m values. The effect persisted after precipitation of the enzyme with polyethylene glycol or after gel filtration through Sephadex G-25.