title: A top-down control analysis in isolated rat liver mitochondria: can the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA pathway be rate-controlling for ketogenesis?
abstract: We incubated isolated liver mitochondria with palmitoyl-CoA, 2,4-dinitrophenol and malonate. Under these conditions all the flux of carbon from palmitoyl-CoA was directed towards acetoacetate synthesis. We measured the rate of acetyl-CoA formation from palmitoyl-CoA (by measuring the rate of oxygen consumption) and the rate of acetoacetate production from acetyl-CoA at three different acetyl-CoA/CoA ratios. Using the top-down approach of metabolic control analysis we calculated the control over ketogenesis exerted by (a) the conversion of extramitochondrial palmitoyl-CoA to intramitochondrial acetyl-CoA and by (b) the conversion of acetyl-CoA to acetoacetate (the 'HMG-CoA pathway'). The overall flux control coefficients of the groups of enzymes involved in (a) and (b) over ketogenesis were 0.28 and 0.72, respectively. Our results show that it is possible for significant control to be exerted over ketogenesis by the enzymes of the HMG-CoA pathway.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recherche sur l'Endocrinologie Moléculaire et le Développement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Meudon-Bellevue, France.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Quant
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Robin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Robin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Girard
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Brand
mesh_terms: D000090:Acetoacetates / Q000378:metabolism; D000214:Acyl Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D007657:Ketone Bodies / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D007659:Ketones / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D010171:Palmitoyl Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D000090:Acetoacetates; D000214:Acyl Coenzyme A; D007657:Ketone Bodies; D007659:Ketones; C008047:3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A; D010171:Palmitoyl Coenzyme A; C016635:acetoacetic acid