title: Insulin and fructose regulate malic enzyme activity by different processes.
abstract: A comparison of the regulatory processes controlling hepatic malic enzyme activity following treatment of diabetic rats with insulin or with a high fructose diet demonstrated several important differences. Insulin treatment caused a 50-fold increase in activity, due to a 12-fold increase in enzyme quantity and a 4-fold increase in specific activity(units/nmol). Dietary fructose caused a 3-fold increase in enzyme activity, due to a 3-fold increase in enzyme quantity, with no change in the specific activity of the enzyme. Thus, while fructose initiated a minor increase in malic enzyme activity, insulin was more effective, causing a substantially greater increase in enzyme activity and activating a hormone specific alteration in the catalytic activity of each enzyme molecule.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000097:blood / Q000201:enzymology; D005632:Fructose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008291:Malate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin; D005632:Fructose; D008291:Malate Dehydrogenase