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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 265, Issue 17, 9606-9609, Jun, 1990

Evidence for substrate channeling in the early steps of cholesterogenesis

HM Miziorko, FE Laib and CE Behnke
Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226.

We have directly tested the ability of acetoacetate, upon activation to the CoA thioester, to channel into the cholesterogenic pathway prior to scrambling of its carbon skeleton with the acetate pool. The approach relies upon trapping [3-13C]acetoacetate-derived hydroxymethylglutaryl- CoA, hydrolyzing this metabolite, and esterifying the resulting hydroxymethylglutaric acid to allow gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis of the dimethyl esters for the 13C enrichment and labeling pattern. 99% enriched [3-13C] and [1,3,5- 13C]hydroxymethylglutaric acid samples were synthesized, providing standards against which physiological samples could be compared. Cytosolic extracts from brain and liver of cholestyramine-fed rats were incubated with [3-13C]acetoacetate (2 mM) or with [1-13C]acetate (5 mM). In contrast to [13C]acetate-derived hydroxymethylglutarate, which shows the expected triple labeling pattern, [13C]acetoacetate-derived hydroxymethylglutarate from both liver and brain extracts is predominantly monolabeled. These data suggest that, after acetoacetate is activated to the CoA thioester, cytosolic hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA synthase effectively commits much of this acetoacetyl-CoA to cholesterogenesis before thiolase can scramble the carbon skeleton of the acetoacetyl moiety into the acetate pool. This chemical approach represents an alternative method for testing the channeling of metabolites through sequential steps in a metabolic pathway. Such a method may be useful when physical or kinetic techniques prove to be unsuitable.
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