Pyruvate carboxylation as an anaplerotic mechanism in the isolated perfused rat heart
- 15 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 202 (1), 67-76
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj2020067
Abstract
1. The role of pyruvate carboxylation in the net synthesis of tricarboxylic acid-cycle intermediates during acetate metabolism was studied in isolated rat hearts perfused with [1-14C]pyruvate. 2. The incorporation of the 14C label from [1-14C]pyruvate into the tricarboxylic acid-cycle intermediates points to a carbon input from pyruvate via enzymes in addition to pyruvate dehydrogenase and citrate synthase. 3. On addition of acetate, the specific radioactivity of citrate showed an initial maximum at 2 min, with a subsequent decline in labelling. The C-6 of citrate (which is removed in the isocitrate dehydrogenase reaction) and the remainder of the molecule showed differential labelling kinetics, the specific radioactivity of C-6 declining more rapidly. Since this carbon is lost in the isocitrate dehydrogenase reaction, the results are consistent with a rapid inactivation of pyruvate dehydrogenase after the addition of acetate, which was confirmed by measuring the 14CO2 production from [1-14C]pyruvate. 4. The results can be interpreted to show that carboxylation of pyruvate to the C4 compounds of the tricarboxylic acid cycle occurs under conditions necessitating anaplerosis in rat myocardium, although the results do not identify the enzyme involved. 5. The specific radioactivity of tissue lactate was too low to allow it to be used as an indicator of the specific radioactivity of the intracellular pyruvate pool. The specific radioactivity of alanine was three times that of lactate. When the hearts were perfused with [1-14C]lactate, the specific radioactivity of alanine was 70% of that of pyruvate. The results suggest that a subcompartmentation of lactate and pyruvate occurs in the cytosol.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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