Phosphate loading prevents the decrease in ATP and increase in food intake produced by 2,5-anhydro-D-mannitol.
The fructose analogue 2,5-anhydro-D-mannitol (2,5-AM) triggers feeding in rats apparently by its action in the liver. In vivo phosphorylation of this analogue decreases hepatic inorganic phosphate and ATP by trapping of phosphate in the mono- and diphosphorylated forms of 2,5-AM. To determine whether hepatic phosphate depletion and decreased ATP are involved in the eating response to 2,5-AM, rats were treated with excess sodium phosphate before injection of 2,5-AM. Phosphate loading prevented both the increase in food intake and the decrease in liver ATP, without affecting the changes seen in plasma fuels produced by 2,5-AM treatment. Phosphate loading did not influence water intake or eating elicited by insulin or 2-deoxy-D-glucose, indicating that the effect on 2,5-AM-induced eating was behaviorally specific and not due to malaise. These data suggest that 2,5-AM elicits eating by trapping phosphate and reducing ATP in liver.
Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
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D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000494:pharmacology; D004435:Eating / Q000187:drug effects*; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified / Q000097:blood; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008353:Mannitol / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D010710:Phosphates / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
D001786:Blood Glucose; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified; D010710:Phosphates; D008353:Mannitol; C031765:2,5-anhydromannitol; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D003847:Deoxyglucose; C018279:sodium phosphate