Study of amino acid formation during palmitate oxidation in rat brain mitochondria |
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Authors: | Nariko Kawamura |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 21205 Baltimore, Maryland;(2) The Kennedy Institute, 707 North Broadway, 21205 Baltimore, Maryland |
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Abstract: | The interrelation of palmitate oxidation with amino acid formation in rat brain mitochondria has been investigated in purified mitochondria of nonsynaptic origin by measuring the formation of aspartate, -ketoglutarate, and glutamate during palmitate oxidation, and also by assaying14C-products of 1-14C]palmitate oxidation. Oxidation of palmitate (or 1-14C]palmitate) resulted in the formation of aspartate (or14C-aspartate), and the oxidation was inhibited by aminooxyacetate (an inhibitor of transaminase), Palmitate oxidation also resulted in -ketoglutarate formation, which was sensitive to the effect of aminooxyacetate. Addition of NH4Cl was found to increase14C-products and formation of -ketoglutarate, whereas glutamate formation was not increased unless the rate of palmitate oxidation was reduced by 50% by aminooxyacetate or -ketoglutarate was added exogenously. Exogenous -ketoglutarate was found to decrease14C-products, but not aspartate formation. These results indicated that palmitate oxidation was closely related to aspartate formation via aspartate aminotransferase. During palmitate oxidation without aminooxyacetate or added -ketoglutarate, however, -ketoglutarate was not available for glutamate formation via glutamate dehydrogenase. We discuss the possibility that this was because (a) oxidative decarboxylation of -ketoglutarate to form succinyl-CoA was favored over glutamate formation for the competition for -ketoglutarate in the same pool, and (b) the pool of -ketoglutarate produced in the aspartate aminotransferase reaction did not serve as substrate for glutamate formation. |
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Keywords: | Brain mitochondria palmitate oxidation aspartate glutamate -ketoglutarate" target="_blank">gif" alt="agr" align="BASELINE" BORDER="0">-ketoglutarate |
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