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1 Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, East Carolina University, Greenville 27858; 2 Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina 27710; and 3 Diabetes Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129
Carnitine
palmitoyltransferase I (CPT I), which is expressed as two distinct
isoforms in liver (
) and muscle (
), catalyzes the rate-limiting
step in the transport of fatty acid into the mitochondria. Malonyl-CoA,
a potent inhibitor of CPT I, is considered a key regulator of fatty
acid oxidation in both tissues. Still unanswered is how muscle
-oxidation proceeds despite malonyl-CoA concentrations that exceed
the IC50 for CPT I
. We evaluated
malonyl-CoA-suppressible [14C]palmitate oxidation and CPT
I activity in homogenates of red (RG) and white (WG) gastrocnemius,
soleus (SOL), and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles. Adding 10 µM malonyl-CoA inhibited palmitate oxidation by 29, 39, 60, and 89%
in RG, SOL, EDL, and WG, respectively. Thus malonyl-CoA resistance,
which correlated strongly (0.678) with absolute oxidation rates
(RG > SOL > EDL > WG), was greater in red than in
white muscles. Similarly, malonyl-CoA-resistant palmitate oxidation and
CPT I activity were greater in mitochondria from RG compared with WG.
Ribonuclease protection assays were performed to evaluate whether our
data might be explained by differential expression of CPT I splice
variants. We detected the presence of two CPT I
splice variants that
were more abundant in red compared with white muscle, but the relative
expression of the two mRNA species was unrelated to malonyl-CoA
resistance. These results provide evidence of a malonyl-CoA-insensitive
CPT I activity in red muscle, suggesting fiber type-specific expression
of distinct CPT I isoforms and/or posttranslational modulations that
have yet to be elucidated.
fatty acid oxidation; fiber-type specificity
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