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PLOS ONE
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024084
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- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR)
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There is growing evidence that mitochondrial dysfunction, and more specifically fatty acid beta-oxidationimpairment, is involved in the pathophysiology of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The goal of the present study was to achieve more understanding on the modification/s of carnitinepalmitoyltransferase-I (CPT-I), the rate-limiting enzyme of the mitochondrial fatty acid beta-oxidation, duringsteatohepatitis. A high fat/methionine-choline deficient (MCD) diet, administered for 4 weeks, was used to induce NASH in rats. We demonstrated that CPT-lactivitydecreased, to the same extent, both in isolated liver mitochondria and in digitonin-permeabilized hepatocytes from MCD-diet fed rats. At the same time, the rate of total fatty acid oxidation to CO2 and ketone bodies, measured in isolated hepatocytes, was significantly lowered in treated animalswhen compared to controls. Finally, an increase in CPT-I mRNA abundance and protein content, together with a high level of CPT-I protein oxidation was observed in treated rats. A posttranslational modification of rat CPT-I during steatohepatitishas been here discussed.
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