title: Organ specific regulation of malic enzyme and hexosemonophosphate shunt dehydrogenases activity by high carbohydrate diet.
abstract: The effect of starvation-refeeding transitions on the activity of malic enzyme and hexosemonophosphate shunt dehydrogenases in lipogenic and non-lipogenic tissues from rats was investigated. Starvation of the rats caused a decrease of malic enzyme activity in the liver, white and brown adipose tissue. Refeeding of the animals with high carbohydrate diet caused a several fold increase of malic enzyme activity in these tissues. Substitution of high fat for high carbohydrate diet resulted in only a slight increase of malic enzyme activity in the liver, white and brown adipose tissues. In the same rats, no significant effect of starvation-refeeding transition on malic enzyme activity in the kidney cortex, brain, heart, skeletal muscle and spleen was observed. The changes of the activity of hexosemonophosphate shunt dehydrogenases during starvation-refeeding transition essentially paralleled those of malic enzyme in all the tissues examined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Academic Medical School, Gdańsk, Poland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zelewski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Swierczyński
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008291:Malate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013154:Spleen / Q000378:metabolism; D013217:Starvation
chemical_list: D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D009249:NADP; D008291:Malate Dehydrogenase; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase; C029757:phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating); D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase