The Succinate Mechanism of Insulin Release
| Autor: | Michael J. MacDonald, Leonard A. Fahien |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
biology Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Glutamate dehydrogenase Succinyl coenzyme A synthetase Succinic Acid Malic enzyme Mevalonic Acid Dehydrogenase Reductase Mitochondria Pyruvate carboxylase Endocrinology Glutamate Dehydrogenase Biochemistry Internal medicine Insulin Secretion HMG-CoA reductase Internal Medicine biology.protein medicine Animals Insulin Secretagogue Aspartate Aminotransferases |
| Zdroj: | Diabetes. 51:2669-2676 |
| ISSN: | 1939-327X 0012-1797 |
| Popis: | Nutrient secretagogues can increase the production of succinyl-CoA in rat pancreatic islets. When succinate esters are the secretagogue, succinyl-CoA can be generated via the succinate thiokinase reaction. Other secretagogues can increase production of succinyl-CoA secondary to increasing alpha-ketoglutarate production by glutamate dehydrogenase or mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase followed by the alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase reaction. Although secretagogues can increase the production of succinyl-CoA, they do not increase the level of this metabolite until after they decrease the level of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA). This suggests that the generated succinyl-CoA initially reacts with acetoacetate to yield acetoacetyl-CoA plus succinate in the succinyl-CoA-acetoacetate transferase reaction. This would be followed by acetoacetyl-CoA reacting with acetyl-CoA to generate HMG-CoA in the HMG-CoA synthetase reaction. HMG-CoA will then be reduced by NADPH to mevalonate in the HMG-CoA reductase reaction and/or cleaved to acetoacetate plus acetyl-CoA by HMG cleavage enzyme. Succinate derived from either exogenous succinate esters or generated by succinyl-CoA-acetoacetate transferase is metabolized to malate followed by the malic enzyme reaction. Increased production of NADPH by the latter reaction then increases reduction of HMG-CoA and accounts for the decrease in the level of HMG-CoA produced by secretagogues. Pyruvate carboxylation catalyzed by pyruvate carboxylase will supply oxaloacetate to mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase. This would enable this aminotransferase to supply alpha-ketoglutarate to the alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex and would, in part, account for secretagogues increasing the islet level of succinyl-CoA after they decrease the level of HMG-CoA. Mevalonate could be a trigger of insulin release as a result of its ability to alter membrane proteins and/or cytosolic Ca(2+). This is consistent with the fact that insulin secretagogues decrease the level of the mevalonate precursor HMG-CoA. In addition, inhibitors of HMG-CoA reductase interfere with insulin release and this inhibition can be reversed by mevalonate. |
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