Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22073799
Keywords
metabolic flexibility; mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism; inherited metabolic disorders; mtFAS; VLCADD
Funding
- DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [TU492/3-1]
- Fritz-Thyssen Foundation [Az.10.15.2.039MN]
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This work summarizes recent findings on metabolic flexibility and its implications in diseases such as VLCADD and ACSF3 deficiency, discussing the role of mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism in maintaining energy homeostasis.
In general, metabolic flexibility refers to an organism's capacity to adapt to metabolic changes due to differing energy demands. The aim of this work is to summarize and discuss recent findings regarding variables that modulate energy regulation in two different pathways of mitochondrial fatty metabolism: beta-oxidation and fatty acid biosynthesis. We focus specifically on two diseases: very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (VLCADD) and malonyl-CoA synthetase deficiency (acyl-CoA synthetase family member 3 (ACSF3)) deficiency, which are both characterized by alterations in metabolic flexibility. On the one hand, in a mouse model of VLCAD-deficient (VLCAD(-/-)) mice, the white skeletal muscle undergoes metabolic and morphologic transdifferentiation towards glycolytic muscle fiber types via the up-regulation of mitochondrial fatty acid biosynthesis (mtFAS). On the other hand, in ACSF3-deficient patients, fibroblasts show impaired mitochondrial respiration, reduced lipoylation, and reduced glycolytic flux, which are compensated for by an increased beta-oxidation rate and the use of anaplerotic amino acids to address the energy needs. Here, we discuss a possible co-regulation by mtFAS and beta-oxidation in the maintenance of energy homeostasis.
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