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FEBS JOURNAL
Volume 273, Issue 3, Pages 568-576Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.05090.x
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adipocytes; glucose oxidation; mitochondria; prohibitin; pyruvate carboxylase
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Prohibitin (PHB-1) is a highly conserved protein involved in mitochondrial biogenesis and function. It is secreted in lipid droplets from adipocytes and is present in the circulation. In adipose tissue it functions as a membrane receptor and can target binding partners to the mitochondria. Here we report that PHB-1 has a hitherto undescribed role as an inhibitor of pyruvate carboxylase (PC). As a consequence, it can modulate insulin-stimulated glucose and fatty acid oxidation. It had no effect on insulin-stimulated 2-deoxglucose uptake by isolated adipocytes but inhibited insulin - stimulated oxidation of [C-14]glucose with a half-maximal concentration of approximate to 4 nm. It also inhibited oleic acid oxidation in glucose-depleted adipocytes via depletion of oxaloacetate. In vitro experiments using broken-cell assays confirmed that PHB-1 inhibited PC. MALDI-TOF analysis of proteins identified by cross-linking of PHB-1 to adipocyte membranes indicated that PHB-1 is closely associated with PC and EH domain 2 (EHD2). On the basis of these data, we propose that PHB-1 is recycled between the extracellular space and the mitochondria by a mechanism involving lipid rafts and EHD2 and can modulate mitochondrial fuel metabolism by inhibition of PC.
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