title: Content of CoA-esters in perifused rat islets stimulated by glucose and other fuels.
abstract: Fluorometry and high-performance liquid chromatography were used to measure the content of free CoA and the esters of acetate, malonate, succinate, and long-chain fatty acids in isolated perifused rat pancreatic islets exposed to 25 mM glucose or a mixture of fuels (25 mM glucose plus 10 mM glutamine, 10 mM lactate, and 1 mM pyruvate) to assess the role of intermediates of lipid metabolism as candidate metabolic coupling factors in the mechanism of fuel-induced insulin secretion. Insulin secretion was stimulated in a biphasic manner with the fuel mixture, showing twice the potency compared with high glucose alone. Islets perifused for 3 min with high glucose alone or the fuel mixture compared with 2.5 mM glucose showed a significant increase in malonyl-CoA and succinyl-CoA and a decrease in acetyl-CoA. Free CoA and long-chain acyl-CoA levels were unaltered. Perifused islets stimulated with 25 mM glucose for 30 min showed a significant increase in succinyl-CoA and long-chain acyl-CoA and decrease in acetyl-CoA, whereas malonyl-CoA was not affected. However, when islets were stimulated by the fuel mixture for 30 min, malonyl-CoA was maintained at a high level, and the change in succinyl-CoA and long-chain acyl-CoA was similar to that observed in islets stimulated with 25 mM glucose alone. The acetyl-CoA concentration in the islets stimulated with the fuel mixture decreased slightly. These results confirm the viability of the hypothesis that malonyl-CoA and long-chain acyl-CoA serve as metabolic coupling factors in signal transduction when islets are stimulated by high glucose or glucose combined with other fuels.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6015.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Matschinsky
mesh_terms: D000214:Acyl Coenzyme A / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003065:Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism*; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007328:Insulin / Q000378:metabolism; D000078790:Insulin Secretion; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D000214:Acyl Coenzyme A; D007328:Insulin; D004247:DNA; D005947:Glucose; D003065:Coenzyme A