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Fats II- Ketogenesis and Cholesterol Synthesis Flashcards

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Before oxidation, what enzyme activates fatty acids and links them to coenzyme A?

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Thiokinase enzyme

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What is the process by which fats can be fully oxidised to ATP?

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β-oxidation produces Acetyl Co-A

- Can be converted into ATP or ketone bodies

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How are ketone bodies used for energy?

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  • Sent to bloodstream and travels to tissues NOT the liver

- Converted to Acetyl CoA

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Where is the only place gluconeogenesis occurs?

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Liver

- The only organ that can make glucose

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What process provides fatty acids for oxidation and energy production?

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Lipolysis

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What substance may the body draw on for substrates of essential proteins and carbon for gluconeogenesis in a state of fasting and starvation?

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Muscle protein

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What are the useful products of β oxidation?

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  • Acetyl CoA

- FADH2 and NADH

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What is driving ketogenesis during fasting/starvation?

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  • β-oxidation drives Acetyl CoA
  • Intermediates originally provided by amino acid oxidation are removed from TCA cycle are used for gluconeogenesis
  • Insufficient oxaloacetate to drive TCA cycle and use up acetyl CoA molecules from β-oxidation
  • Excess Acetyl CoA accumulates which undergoes ketogenesis
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What does the liver need to continue β-oxidation?

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Free coenzyme A

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Where is the only place that ketone body synthesis takes place?

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Mitochondrial matrix

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What are the three ketone bodies that acetyl CoA can be converted to?

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  • Acetoacetate
  • β-hydroxybutyrate
  • Acetone
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What are ketone bodies converted to serve as an energy source?

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  • Acetyl CoA
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Which ketone bodies are more common?

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  • Acetoacetate

- β-hydroxybutyrate

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What happens to ketone bodies when they are not being used?

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Acetone

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What are the two key enzymes in ketogenesis from Acetyl CoA?

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  • HMG-CoA synthase
  • HMG-CoA lyase
    (unique to hepatocytes)
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How is acetone excreted?

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Via urine or lungs

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What do two acetyl CoA molecules produce?

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  • Acetoacetyl CoA

- One co-enzyme A molecule is released and used in β-oxidation

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What happens to acetoacetyl CoA after it is produced?

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  • Reacts with another acetyl CoA

- Produces HMG CoA (essential intermediate)

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What enzyme catalyses the reaction between Acetoacetyl CoA and Acetyl CoA?

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HMG CoA synthase

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What is HMG CoA converted to in ketogenesis?

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What enzyme catalyses the reaction converting HMG-CoA to acetoacetate?

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HMG-CoA lyase

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What is Acetoacetate converted to in ketogenesis and what enzyme catalyses this?

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  • β-hydroxybutyrate
  • β-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase
  • NADH + H+ -> NAD+
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What is detectable on a diabetic’s breath as a sign that they are undergoing ketogenesis?

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Acetone

- Both acetoacetate and β-hydroxybutyrate

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Describe the fate of ketone bodies

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  • Synthesised in the liver
  • Conversion back to Acetyl CoA
  • Oxidation in the TCA cycle in other tissues
  • Occurs in muscle and the brain during starvation
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Briefly describe type 1 diabetes mellitus
- Elevated blood glucose results from inadequate secretion of insulin by islets of Langerhans in the pancreas
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Briefly describe type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Shortage of insulin receptors- desensitisation to them
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What happens to glucose transport in diabetes mellitus?
- Transport of glucose into muscle, liver and adipose tissue is significantly reduced - Cells are metabolically starved
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What happens to oxaloacetate in diabetes mellitus?
- Increased gluconeogenesis consumes most of the available oxaloacetate
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What is an indication of high plasma levels of ketone bodies?
- Acetone detected on the breath of type 1 diabetics
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What is the blood-brain barrier's permeability to ketone bodies dependent on?
Monocarboxylic acid transporters (MCT-1)
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What increases the number of MCT1 transporters in the blood-brain barrier?
- Fasting
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How can we tell that the only essential role of ketone bodies is as an alternative fuel for illness/long-term fasting?
- Most patients with inborn errors involving ketogenesis develop normally
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What does imaging show as a symptom of HMG-CoA lyase deficiency?
- Imaging generally shows asymptomatic white-matter abnormalities
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In what case would a ketogenic diet be effective?
- In those who have a GLUT-1 deficiency - Where a high glucose diet may not be useful - Also successful treatment for patients with intractable epilepsy
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Describe the ketogenic diet
- High in fat, moderate protein, low carbohydrate - Treatment for those whose tissues cannot access or properly process carbohydrates (like in pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency)
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What is cholesterol?
A major class of lipid used in the body
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What are the functions of cholesterol?
- Structural component of cell membranes- confers fluidity and regulates permeability - Substrate for synthesis of sex hormone, vitamin D and bile acids
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What is cholesterol mainly composed of?
- Carbon and hydrogen - And solitary hydroxyl group attached to C3 - Almost completely saturate one double bond at C5=C6 - Mainly hydrophobic
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Where is cholesterol synthesised?
- Liver is the main site
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Where can cholesterol be obtained in the diet?
- Animal fat
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What is the rate limiting regulatory enzyme for cholesterol biosynthesis?
- HMG- CoA reductase
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What enzyme is cholesterol synthesis is a target of statins (drugs)?
HMG-CoA reductase
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Describe the synthesis of cholesterol
- 2 Acetyl CoA produce AcetoacetylCoA - - CoA used in β-oxidation - Acetoacetyl CoA converted to HMG-CoA using enzyme HMG-CoA synthase - -CoA byproduct used in β-oxidation - HMG-CoA converted to Mevalonate which is then converted to Lanosterol - - Both reactions use HMG-CoA reductase - Lanosterol converted to cholesterols
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What inhibits HMG-CoA reductase in a negative feedback loop?
- Cholesterol
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What happens when statins inhibit HMG-CoA reductase?
- Lowers levels of endogenously synthesised cholesterol - Stimulates increased LDL receptor expression in order to extract more cholesterol from blood - Lowers plasma cholesterol and risk of MI
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What do fungal cells convert lanosterol to?
- Ergosterol
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What is ergosterol?
- Important component of fungal cell membranes and not animal cell - Useful drug target
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What are examples of anti-fungals that inhibit enzymes necessary for ergosterol generation?
- Terbinafine | - Imidazole

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