The influence of ammonium and calcium lons on gluconeogenesis in isolated rat hepatocytes and their response to glucagon and epinephrine |
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Authors: | R N Zahlten N M Kneer F W Stratman H A Lardy |
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Institution: | Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA |
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Abstract: | The use of n-butylmalonate as an inhibitor of malate transport from mitochondria and of aminooxyacetate as an inhibitor of glutamate-aspartate transaminase indicated that rat liver hepatocytes employ the aspartate shuttle for gluconeogenesis from lactate which supplies reducing equivalents to the cytosolic NAD system. In contrast, malate is transported from mitochondria to cytosol for gluconeogenesis from pyruvate. This conclusion is corroborated by the finding that the addition of ammonium ions enhances gluconeogenesis from lactate but inhibits glucose formation from pyruvate. In hepatocytes, glucagon and epinephrine have relatively little effect on glucose synthesis from lactate. Ammonium ions permit both of these hormones to exert their usual stimulation of gluconeogenesis from lactate.Calcium ions (1.3 mm) enhance gluconeogenesis from lactate and from lactatepyruvate mixtures (10:1). The stimulatory effects of Ca2+ and NH4+ are additive and, when lactate is the substrate, the rates of gluconeogenesis achieved are so high as to preclude further stimulation by glucagon. |
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