title: Inhibition of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in pentenoic acid-induced fatty liver. A possible model for Reye's syndrome.
abstract: Rats treated with six to eight doses (80 mg/kg, i.p.) of 4-pentenoic acid, an inhibitor of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in vitro, during a 48-hr starvation period developed microvesicular fatty infiltration of the liver similar to that observed in Reye's Syndrome. Hepatic triglycerides were elevated an average of 5-fold, although considerable variability was found between individual rats. Fed rats did not develop fatty liver upon similar treatment with pentenoic acid. Liver mitochondria isolated from rats with pentenoic acid-induced fatty liver showed a persistent inhibition of fatty acid oxidation. Rates of oxidation of palmitoylcarnitine and decanoylcarnitine were decreased about 70%, while that of octanoylcarnitine was decreased 50%. Carnitine-independent oxidation of octanoate was also inhibited. Oxidation rates for substrates other than fatty acids, including glutamate, succinate, pyruvate, and alpha-ketoglutarate, were unaffected. Measurements of flavoprotein reduction in intact mitochondria indicated that neither palmitoylcarnitine nor palmitoyl CoA plus L-carnitine could elicit reduction of acyl-CoA dehydrogenase and electron transferring flavoprotein in mitochondria from rats with pentenoic acid-induced fatty liver. These results support a site of inhibition of mitochondrial beta-oxidation at the level of acyl-CoA dehydrogenase for pentenoic acid treatment in vivo, and they suggest a role for nutritional or hormonal factors in the metabolic disposition of pentenoic acid in vivo and in the development of fatty liver.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D005229:Fatty Acids, Monounsaturated; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012202:Reye Syndrome / Q000378:metabolism*; D013217:Starvation / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D005229:Fatty Acids, Monounsaturated; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated; C009785:4-pentenoic acid