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Studies on the Metabolism of glycolyl-CoA

J Vamecq, J P Draye, J H Poupaert

Biochem Cell Biol. 1990 May;68(5):846-51.

PMID: 1976013

Abstract:

Glycolyl-CoA can be formed during the course of the beta-oxidation by rat liver mitochondria of 4-hydroxybutyrate. The existence of this beta-oxidation has been previously supported by the occurrence of 4-hydroxybutyrate and its beta-oxidation catabolites in urine from patients with 4-hydroxybutyric aciduria, an inborn error of gamma-aminobutyric acid metabolism due to the deficiency of succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase. The characteristics of the mitochondrial beta-oxidation of 4-hydroxybutyrate were, in rat liver, compared with those of the mitochondrial beta-oxidation of butyrate. The inhibition by malonate of the oxidation of 4-hydroxybutyrate was about twofold weaker than that of oxidation of butyrate, whereas both oxidations were abolished by preincubating the mitochondria with 1 mM valproic acid, a known inhibitor of mitochondrial beta-oxidation. Mitochondria from rat kidney cortex were demonstrated to catalyse, as previously shown for hepatic mitochondria, the carnitine-dependent oxidation of 12-hydroxylauroyl-CoA-omega-Hydroxymonocarboxylyl-CoAs are thus concluded to be precursors of glycolyl-CoA also in rat kidney cortex. In addition, 3-hydroxypyruvate was found to be a precursor of glycolyl-CoA, since it was oxidized by bovine heart pyruvate dehydrogenase with a cofactor requirement similar to that of pyruvate oxidation. Glycolyl-CoA was a substrate of carnitine acetyltransferase (pigeon breast muscle). Pig heart citrate synthase was capable of catalyzing the condensation of glycolyl-CoA with oxaloacetate. The product of this reaction induced low NADH production rates dependent on the addition of porcine heart aconitase and isocitrate dehydrogenase.

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AP9024253 Aconitase from porcine heart Aconitase from porcine heart 9024-25-3 Price
AP9027149 Cytochrome c Reductase from porcine heart Cytochrome c Reductase from porcine heart 9027-14-9 Price
AP9029907 Carnitine Acetyltransferase from pigeon breast muscle Carnitine Acetyltransferase from pigeon breast muscle 9029-90-7 Price
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