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JBC, Vol. 254, Issue 22, 11511-11520, Nov, 1979

Effects of branched chain alpha-ketoacids on the metabolism of isolated rat liver cells. I. Regulation of branched chain alpha-ketoacid metabolism

J. R. Williamson, E. Walajtys-Rode and K. E. Coll

alpha-Ketoisocaproate (ketoleucine) is shown to be metabolized to ketone bodies rapidly by isolated rat liver cells. Acetoacetate is the major end product and maximum rates were observed with 2 mM substrate. Studies with 2-tetradecylglycidic acid (an inhibitor of long chain fatty acid oxidation) showed that ketogenesis from alpha-ketoisocaproate and from endogenous fatty acids were additive. With alpha-ketoisocaproate present as soole substrate at 2 mM, leucine production was less than 10% of alpha-ketoisocaproate uptake and only 30% of the acetyl coenzyme A generated was oxidized in the citric acid cycle. Metabolism of alpha-ketoisocaproate was inhibited by fatty acids, alpha-ketoisovalerate, alpha-keto-beta-methylvalerate, and pyruvate. Oxidation of acetyl-CoA generated from alpha-ketoisocaproate was suppressed by oleate and by pyruvate, but was enhanced by lactate. Metabolism between the different branched chain alpha-ketoacids was mutually competitive. When alpha-ketoisocaproate (2 mM) was added in the presence of high pyruvate concentrations (4.4 mM), flux through pyruvate dehydrogenase was decreased, and the proportion of total pyruvate dehydrogenase in the active form (PDHa) also fell. With lactate as substrate, PDHa was only 25% of total activity and was little affected by addition of alpha-ketoisocaproate. These data suggest that enhanced oxidation of acetyl-CoA from alpha-ketoisocaproate by lactate addition is caused by a low activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase combined with increased flux through the citric acid cycle in response to the energy requirements for gluconeogenesis. However, acetyl-CoA generation from pyruvate is apparently insufficiently inhibited by alpha-ketoisocaproate to cause a diversion of acetyl-CoA formed during alpha-ketoisocaproate metabolism from ketone body formation to oxidation in the citric acid cycle. Measurements of the cell contents of CoASH, acetyl-CoA, acid-soluble acyl-CoA, and acid-insoluble fatty acyl-CoA indicated that when the branched chain alpha-ketoacids were added as sole substrate, their oxidation was limited at a step distal to the branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase. Acid-soluble acyl-CoA derivatives were depleted after oleate addition in the presence of alpha-ketoisocaproate, suggesting an inhibition of the branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase by the elevation of the mitochondrial NADH/NAD+ ratio observed during fatty acid oxidation. This effect was not observed in the presence of oleate and 2-tetradecylglycidic acid.
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