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Palmitate oxidation by the mitochondria from volume-overloaded rat hearts

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In this work, an attempt was made to identify the reasons of impaired long-chain fatty acid utilization that waspreviously described in volume-overloaded rat hearts. The most significant data are the following: (1) The slowing down of long-chain fatty acid oxidation in severely hypertrophied hearts cannot be related to a feedback inhibition of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I from an excessive stimulation of glucose oxidation since, because of decreased tissue levels of L-carnitine, glucose oxidation also declines in volume-overloaded hearts. (2) While, in control hearts, the estimated intracellular concentrations of free carnitine are in the range of the respective Km of mitochondrial CPT I, a kinetic limitation of this enzyme could occur in hypertrophied hearts due to a 40% decrease in free carnitine. (3) However, the impaired palmitate oxidation persists upon the isolation of the mitochondria from these hearts even in presence of saturating concentrations of L-carnitine. In contrast, the rates of the conversion of both palmitoyl-CoA and palmitoylcarnitine into acetyl-CoA are unchanged. (4) The kinetic analyses of palmitoyl-CoA synthase and carnitine palmitoyltransferase I reactions do not reveal any differences between the two mitochondrial populations studied. On the other hand, the conversion of palmitate into palmitoylcarnitine proves to be substrate inhibited already at physiological concentrations of exogenous palmitate. The data presented in this work demonstrate that, during the development of a severe cardiac hypertrophy, a fragilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane may occur. The functional integrity of this membrane seems to be further deteriorated by increasing concentrations of free fatty acids which gives rise to an impaired functional cooperation between palmitoyl-CoA synthase and carnitine palmitoyltransferase I. In intact myocardium, the utilization of the generated in situ palmitoyl-CoA can be further slowed down by decreased intracellular concentrations of free carnitine.

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Christian, B., Zainab, E.AT., Mireille, M. et al. Palmitate oxidation by the mitochondria from volume-overloaded rat hearts. Mol Cell Biochem 180, 117–128 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006851325669

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