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JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
Volume 132, Issue 8, Pages 2123-2126Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jn/132.8.2123
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diabetes; oxidation; triacylglycerol
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD 08431] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK56598] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent studies suggest that the long-chain acyl-CoA synthetases (ACS) may play a role in channeling fatty acids either toward complex lipid synthesis and storage or toward oxidation. Each of the five members of the ACS family that has been cloned has a distinct tissue distribution and subcellular location, and is regulated independently during cellular differentiation and by diverse hormones and nuclear transcription factors including adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPARalpha) and sterol regulatory element binding protein. Taken as a whole, these features suggest that in liver, ACS1 and ACS5 may provide acyl-CoA destined primarily for triacylglycerol synthesis or for mitochondrial oxidation, respectively. ACS4 may provide acyl-CoA for both synthesis and peroxisomal oxidation, depending on whether the enzyme is associated with the mitochondrial-associated membrane or with peroxisomes. It should be emphasized that although the data for acyl-CoA channeling are strong, they are indirect. Rigorous testing of these predictions will be required.
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