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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 346, Issue -, Pages 651-657Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS
DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3460651
Keywords
pyruvate dehydrogenase complex; lactate; fatty acids
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK47844] Funding Source: Medline
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Using immunoblot analysis with antibodies raised against recombinant pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK) isoenzymes PDK2 and PDK4, we demonstrate selective changes in PDK isoenzyme expression in slow-twitch versus fast-twitch skeletal muscle types in response to prolonged (48 h) starvation and refeeding after starvation. Starvation increased PDK activity in both slow-twitch (soleus) and fast-twitch (anterior tibialis) skeletal muscle and was associated with loss of sensitivity of PDK( to inhibition by pyruvate, with a greater effect in anterior tibialis, Starvation significantly increased PDK4 protein expression in both soleus and anterior tibialis, with a greater response in anterior tibialis. Starvation did not effect PDK2 protein expression in soleus, but modestly increased PDK? expression in anterior tibialis. Refeeding for 4 h partially reversed the effect of 48-h starvation on PDK activity and PDK4 expression in both soleus and anterior tibialis, but the response was more marked in soleus than in anterior tibialis. Pyruvate sensitivity of PDK activity was also partially restored by re-feeding, again with the greater response in soleus. It is concluded that targeted regulation of PDK4 isoenzyme expression in skeletal muscle in response to starvation and refeeding underlies the modulation of the regulatory characteristics of PDK in vivo. We propose that switching from a pyruvate-sensitive to a pyruvate-insensitive PDK isoenzyme in starvation (a) maintains a sufficiently high pyruvate concentration to ensure that the glucose --> alanine --> glucose cycle is not impaired, and (b) may 'spare' pyruvate for anaplerotic entry into the tricarboxylic acid cycle to support the entry of acetyl-CoA derived from fatty acid (FA) oxidation into the tricarboxylic acid cycle. We further speculate that FA oxidation by skeletal muscle is both forced and facilitated by upregulation of PDK4, which is perceived as an essential component of the operation of the glucose-FA cycle in starvation.
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