title: Characterization of the malonyl-CoA-sensitive carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPTo) of a rat heart mitochondrial particle. Evidence that the catalytic unit is CPTi.
abstract: A post 30,000 x g particulate fraction was isolated from rat heart. This mixed membrane fraction is enriched in a carnitine palmitoyltransferase which is sensitive to both malonyl-CoA and etomoxiryl-CoA at concentrations that inhibit the malonyl-CoA-sensitive carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPTo/CPT-I) of intact mitochondria. Tritiated etomoxiryl-CoA labels two proteins with the same molecular weight as the labeled proteins from rat heart mitochondria. Malonyl-CoA-sensitive carnitine palmitoyltransferase in the particulate fraction is stable to freeze-thawing, and the activity is not latent. These data show that the carnitine palmitoyltransferase associated with this particle is CPTo/CPT-I. Positive Western blots were obtained, with the particle using anti-CPTi/CPT-II at a molecular weight identical with the CPT1/CPT-II purified from rat heart mitochondria. Catalytic activity was purified to near homogeneity in approximately 40% yield. The purified protein has a molecular weight identical with CPTi/CPT-II, it cross-reacts with antibody against CPTi/CPT-II, it is not inhibited by malonyl-CoA or etomoxiryl-CoA, and mass spectral analyses of the tryptic peptides give the same molecular masses as CPTi/CPT-II, and, when mixed with equal amounts of CPTi/CPT-II, one uniform spot is found by two-dimensional electrophoresis. These data indicate that the catalytic subunit of CPTo/CPT-I is the same as CPTi/CPT-II. The average inhibition of the CPT of frozen-thawed particles is 71% by 50 nM etomoxiryl-CoA and 62% by 50 nM malonyl-CoA. The inhibitor sensitivity, but not the catalytic activity, is lost by solubilization in 1% Triton X-114; removal of Triton X-114 using Extracti-Gel D restores etomoxiryl-CoA and malonyl-CoA sensitivity (both 50 nM) of CPT to an average of 77 and 48%, respectively. Consistent with previous reports, these results show that CPTo/CPT-I is NOT inactivated by detergents, rather detergents both desensitize it to malonyl-CoA and alter its Vmax. These data show the assumption that CPTo/CPT-I is inactivated by detergents is untenable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kerner
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zaluzec
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gage
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Bieber
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002334:Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D002458:Cell Fractionation; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004852:Epoxy Compounds / Q000378:metabolism; D005615:Freezing; D007700:Kinetics; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008316:Malonyl Coenzyme A / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008929:Mitochondria, Heart / Q000201:enzymology*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D051381:Rats; D013367:Submitochondrial Particles / Q000201:enzymology*; D014461:Ultracentrifugation
chemical_list: D004852:Epoxy Compounds; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D008316:Malonyl Coenzyme A; D002334:Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase; C054207:etomoxir