Week 4A: Integration Metabolism, Role of Organs, Feast/Famine, Diabetes Mellitus & Alcohol Flashcards
HC23-26
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Kinetics curve of multidomain enzymes with regulatory and catalytic domains
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Sigmoidal curve
> sum curve R-state and T-state.
> do not obey Michaelis Menten kinetics
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Multidomain, regulated enzymes are usually the ..
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catalysers of the committed step in a pathway.
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is HMG-reductase a monomer?
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No, a highly regulated dimer: committed step in cholesterol biosynthesis
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Which enzyme is targeted by statins?
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HMG-CoA reductase
> also upregulates LDLR: higher dose used in homozygous FH than heterozygous FH (familial hypercholesterolemia)
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Phosphorylation regulation in glycogen metabolism
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Glycogen phosphorylase (GP): breakdown and glycogen synthase (GS): synthesis.
> a-forms, normally in active R-state
> allosteric metabolites can overrule phosphorylation status
> phosphorylation of GP and GS via PKA for example
> activates GP, inactivates GS
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Phosphorylation regulation in fatty acid metabolism (acetyl-CoA carboxylase in synthesis)
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Active carboxylase when dephosphorylated by PP2A.
Inactive carboxylase when phosphorylated by AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase)
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Difference AMPK and adenylate kinase
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AMPK uses AMP and ATP to phosphorylate a protein
> result, AMP still bound, ATP to ADP for phosphorylation.
Adenylate kinase: ADP + ADP <=> ATP + AMP for extra energy
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Why is the regulation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase logic?
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When high AMP, low energy, no FA synthesis wanted.
AMPK phosphorylates and inactivates ACC
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Metabolite regulation of liver and muscle glycogen phosphorylase
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Liver: glucose can allosterically bind and inactivate the GP-a for change to T-state (even when phosphorylated in a form)
Muscle: binding AMP to get in R state as GP-b
Binding ATP or G-6-P causes change to T-state. (enough energy, no breakdown glycogen needed)
> not necessarily in a or b form, but it shows the overruling of phosphorylation state
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Why isn’t liver GP inactivated by AMP?
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The liver is the glucose homeostasis regulator and can convert G-6-P to glucose with G6Pase and needs to consider other tissues needs, not only its own
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Metabolites may overrule phosphorylation regulation of enzymes: Acetyl-CoA carboxylase
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Phosphorylated ACC is inactive. But if it binds citrate (shows that there is enough energy, TCA cycle stopped), than partly active ACC. (FA synthesis committed step)
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Which enzymes is regulated as regulatory filaments?
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Acetyl-CoA carboxylase forms regulatory filaments
> Palmitoyl-CoA (intermediate FA oxidation/breakdown) causes filaments to disassemble (product inhibition) to inactive dimers > induces conformational changes as a regulator
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Name catabolic pathways and anabolic pathways (interconnected)
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Catabolic:
- oxidation
- oxidative decarboxylation
- oxidative deamination
Anabolic
- Reductive biosynthesis
- Carboxylation
- Synthesis
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Control of metabolic fluxes
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-Based on energy states: fed, fasted, starvation
-Irreversible steps set the pace
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Manipulation of metabolic fluxes
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-Changing enzyme activities at irreversible steps with the high flux control (short term)
-Changing multiple activities at the same time: controlled gene expression (long term)
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An irreversible step is a reaction with a large .. value
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Keq
= [C][D]/[A][B]
in A + B <=> C + D
And large negative dG0
> change flux by changing enzyme activity or amount of enzyme
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Reversible step has a … dG0 and flux can be changed by …
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small, flux changed by changing concentrations of reactants
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ATP yield of 1 glucose
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Glycolysis: 2 ATP and 2 NADH (22.5=5)= 7 ATP
-Pyruvate oxidation: 2 NADH = 5 ATP
-TCA cycle: 2 acetyl CoA yields 2 times 3 NADH + 1 FADH2 + 1 GTP so 2 (7.5 ATP [3+2.5] + 1.5 [FADH2] + 1 [GTP] = 20 ATP
> total 30-32 ATP
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1 glucose yields 30-32 ATP, dependent on
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Shuttle which is used (redox) across mitochondria for NADH of glycolysis
- Glycerol-3-phosphate
- Malate-aspartate
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Glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle
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shuttle in muscle: DHAP in cytosol converted to glycerol-3-P by cytoplasmic glycerol-3-P dehydrogenase (GAPDH, using NADH) in intermembrane space and glycerol-3-P and this is converted by mitochondrial GAPDH to DHAP (yielding FADH2).
> 2 cytosolic NADH and yields 2 mitochondrial FADH2: 1.5 ATP per FADH2: 3 ATP. 30 ATP total
> turbo glycolysis
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Malate-acetate shuttle
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shuttle in liver, brain and heart muscle: 32 ATP yield. NADH reduces oxaloacetate in cytosol to malate and transport to matrix and in matrix conversion malate to oxaloacetate and through a-ketoglutarate and aspartate (converted from glutamate, coupled to oxaloacetate> a-ketoglutarate) back to cytosol. In cytosol conversion a-ketoglutarate to oxaloacetate (oxidize NADH) and aspartate to glutamate (tranport to matrix)
> 2 cytosolic NADH to 2 NADH in matrix: 2.5 ATP per, total 5, total 32 ATP
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What happens to the FADH2 from glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle
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Flavoprotein which donates electrons to coenzyme Q in ubiquinone (Q) form (reduced to ubiquinol QH2).
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What happens to beta-oxidation created FADH2?
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Electron-transfer protein (ETF) with the FADH2 prosthetic group.
> gives to Q
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malate-aspartate shuttle is slower than glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle?
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More enzymes involved.
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Where does the decarboxylation of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA by PDH take place?
Mitochondrial matrix
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Succinate dehydrogenase (TCA cycle enzyme) is part of the .... complex (complex II)
Succinate-Q reductase
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Three sources of FADH2 which give electrons to coenzyme Q (ubiquinone (Q))?
-Succinate-Q reductase (complex II, with succinate dehydrogenase)
-Electron-transfer flavoprotein (ETF, beta-oxidation > from acyl-CoA dehydrogenase)
-Glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle.
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What happens to glycerol (C3) in the liver in the fasted state?
Precursor for gluconeogenesis via
-Glycerol > glycerol-3-P
Glycerol-3-P > Triose-P (yields NADH > 2 per glucose)
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Extra yield lactate as substrate gluconeogenesis
Lactate (C3) requires extra NADH oxidation > yields 2 extra NADH per glucose made
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How is the NADPH required for FA synthesis made?
Pentose Phosphate Pathway
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Committed step enzymes for glycogen and glucose metabolism
Glycogenolysis: Glycogen phosphorylase (GP)
Glycolysis: Phosphofructokinase (PFK-1)
Glycolysis > TCA cycle: Pyruvate dehydrogenase
PPP: Glucose-6-P dehydrogenase
Gluconeogenesis: Pyruvate carboxylase (PC)
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Committed step enzymes FA metabolism, Cholesterol biosynthesis, ketogenesis and urea cycle
FA breakdown: Carnitine Palmitoyl transferase I (CPT-I)
FA synthesis: Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase (ACC)
Cholesterol biosynthesis: HMG-CoA reductase
Ketogenesis: HMG-CoA synthetase
Urea cycle: Carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase
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Which intermediate is formed when condensing citrulline and aspartate to argininosuccinate in urea cycle?
Citrulline-AMP (adenylated)
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Structure urea: central carbon, two amino groups and oxygen atom. Where are the origins?
Amino group 1: Deamination
Amino group 2: aspartate
Carbon: Hydrogen carbonate (HCO3-, from hydration of CO2)
Oxygen: from water H2O in last step: Arginine + H2O > Ornithine + Urea
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How are the TCA cycle and respiratory chain coupled? What is respiratory control
NADH activated carrier
> more oxygen required when more ATP needed in exercise: respiratory control
> halt both when enough ATP
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How is ATP synthesis coupled to respiratory chain?
Proton gradient
> Halt when enough ATP: proton pumps stop, NADH concentration high and NAD+ low, TCA cycle stops (accumulation of acetyl-CoA and citrate as regulators ....)
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How is urea cycle linked to gluconeogenesis?
Nitrogen metabolism of fumarate and aspartate
Argininosuccinate to arginine releases fumarate which is converted to oxaloacetate via malate.
> oxaloacetate to gluconeogenesis
> oxaloacetate to aspartate by deaminating an alpha-amino acid
> use aspartate in urea cycle
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Pasteur effect glycolytic ATP vs mitochondrial ATP
Inhibition glycolysis by respiration
> preference for mitochondrial oxidation of pyruvate.
> in mitochondrial malfunction: glycolysis and lactate formation highly stimulated
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Lactate dehydrogenase reaction
Lactate donates Hydride ion and hydrogen ion (H+) from the C2 carbon (count from carboxyl end) to NAD+ to form NADH, H+ and pyruvate.
> First: Removal H+
> NAD+ can take up hydride ion (H-: H+ + 2 e-)
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Which amino acid side chain can take up H+?
Histidine
> in lactate dehydrogenase, lactates H+ transferred to active site His-195 and hydride ion to NAD+
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Warburg effect
Using glycolysis when oxygen is available
> in tumor cells
> PDH strongly inhibited
> upregulation glycolysis
> downregulation mitochondrial respiration (increased membrane potential)
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Important role for this factor in Warburg effect
Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha (HIF-1alpha)
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Altered gene expression in tumor cells for Warburg effect
Hypoxia
> activation HIF-1 transcription factor
> metabolic adaption: block PDH, increase glycolytic enzymes, and blood vessel growth stimulated
> without O2 as electron acceptor: respiratory chain is unable to generate proton motive force
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Paradox of the Warburg effect in cancer cells
Lactate production with or without oxygen
> little but use of mitochondria
> anaerobic glycolysis rules
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Which enzyme inhibits PDH and therefore oxidative phosphorylation
Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK) phosphorylates and inhibits PDH
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Drug to target Warburg effect
Dichloroacetate (DCA) activates PDH flux
> normalize mitochondrial protein motive force and inhibits tumor growth
> slows down tumor growth
> PDK inhibited
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Fates pyruvate in liver
-To oxaloacetate by pyruvate carboxylase (gluconeogenesis, fasting)
-To acetyl-CoA by PDH (fed state)
> metabolic regulator of the fate: acetyl-CoA (accumulated when TCA cycle halted and high energy), activates PC and inactivates PDH.
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Reciprocal regulation glycolysis/gluconeogenesis
F-2,6-BP
> Activates PFK-1, inactivates F-1,6-BPase
ATP/ADP
> ATP inactivates PFK-1 and PK
> ADP inactivates PC and PEP carboxylase
> AMP inactivates F-1,6-BPase
Citrate
> inactivates PFK-1 and activates F-1,6-BPase
Others
> Low pH (H+) inactivates PFK-1 (lactate production/ anaerobic)
> Alanine inhibits PK (substrate gluconeogenesis, signals starvation)
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Reciprocal regulation in FA metabolism
Committed enzyme synthesis > ACC; acetyl-CoA carboxylase
> activated by citrate (feedforward stimulation)
> inhibited by palmitoyl-CoA (before committed step beta-oxidation)
Carnitine-palmitoyl transferase-1 (committed in beta-oxidation)
>Inhibited by malonyl-CoA, product of committed step in FA synthesis from Acetyl-CoA, HCO3- and ATP (to ADP + Pi)
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HC24: Why do fats contain the most energy?
More reduced carbons: more energy for oxidation
> less polar and water attraction
> less osmotic value
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Glucose and VLDL or Chylomicrons to TAGs in adipocytes
Glucose from liver
> Uptake by GLUT4, Glucose to glycerol-3-P
Fatty acids uptake by FATP and CD36, released by LPL out of VLDL (from liver) or chylomicrons (from intestine)
> FAs to acyl-CoA
> Glycerol-3-P + acyl-CoA > TAGs
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TAG products from lipolysis in adipocyte in blood
-Glycerol: to liver
-FA-albumin complexes > to peripheral tissue
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How are hormones produced by adipocytes called?
Adipokines
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When are leptins secreted by adipocytes?
When the lipid droplet is full > feeling of saturation / satiety > enough eaten
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Leptin signaling
Bind receptors in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) in the hypothalamus
> insulin has this function as well
> inhibition NPY and AgRP and activation POMC producing neurons > POMC increases MSH expression > decrease food intake
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Obesity is often associated with ... resistance
Leptin resistance
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Additional satiety signals to the brain
-Response to feeding: intestinal cells secrete hormones cholecystokinin (CCK) from I cells and glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) from L cells
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GLP-1 function
GLP-1 is an incretin > hormones that prepare pancreatic beta cells to amplify their response to incoming glucose by increasing insulin secretion and biosythesis, while inhibiting glucagon secretion from alpha cells via insulin
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How is glucagon and GLP-1 made
The human glucagon gene encodes for preproglucagon polypeptide (180 AA).
> during translation, signal peptide cleaved off by signal peptidase while proglucagon enters secretory pathway via lumen of RER
> in pancreatic alpha cells, proteases cleave proglucagon into mature glucagon and other peptides
> in intestinal L cells, proteases cleave proglucagon into GLP-1 and other peptides
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Effect Semaglutide (Ozempic)
GLP-1 receptor agonist
> popular anti-obesity medication for treatment T2DM and decreases blood glucose levels in patients
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Leptin -/- mice symptoms
Obese, insulin-resistant, diabetic
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Molecular mechanism Ozempic
Bind to GLP-1 receptors and function as incretin
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Functions liver in fasted and starved state as central regulator
-Fasted: producer glucose and FAs for other organs
-Starved: producer ketone bodies
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In liver: glycolysis mainly for production .... for ...
Acetyl-CoA, for FA synthesis, ketone bodies and other buidling blocks
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Liver as internal energy source: mainly ....
Catabolism of amino acids
> transamination and citric acid cycle.
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Brain as top consumer
60% glucose needs, constant needs
> needs a lot of glucose and ketone bodies in starvation
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Why is FA oxidation not possible in brain
Blood brain barrier
> only oxidation glucose and ketone bodies
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Erythrocytes have no mitochondria and use anaerobic glycolysis using LDH for NAD+ regeneration. Name two other types of this regeneration with cellular location and tissue type
1. Glycerol-3-phosphate shuttle (mitochondria, oxidation, muscle)
2. Malate-aspartate shuttle (mitochondria, oxidation, liver, brain and heart muscle)
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Differences metabolism skeletal muscle and heart muscle
Fuels
> Skeletal: glucose mainly
> Heart: mainly FAs and ketone bodies
Lactate
>Skeletal: Producer
> Heart: consumer
O2 dependent
> Skeletal: not dependent
> Heart: completely O2 dependent
Shuttle for transport redox equivalents
> Skeletal: Glycerol-3-P shuttle
> Heart: Malate/aspartate shuttle
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Glucose-alanine cycle
Muscle: glucose > pyruvate
Branched-chain amino acids > carbon skeletons for cellular respiration (energy) and glutamate (transamination)
Glutamate+pyruvate > Alanine (/ glutamine)
> blood
Liver: Alanine to pyruvate and glutamate
Glutamate to NH4+ (deamination) to urea (urea cycle)
Pyruvate to glucose (gluconeogenesis)
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The master regulator of intracellular metabolism":
mTOR complex
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Lifting weights to failure and feeding lead to increased muscle mass, how?
Mechanoreceptors sense activity of muscle
> second signal: certain amino acids from diet like Leucine for which transporter proteins are needed.
> Combination leads to removal of inhibitors of mTOR complex 1 (inactive mTORC1) to active mTORC1
> mTORC1 activates protein synthesis and muscle hypertrophy
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How does active mTORC1 promote protein synthesis
Bind to lysosomes and stimulate release building blocks for myofibrils and other muscle proteins.
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Nitrogen transport through blood as glutamine
In muscle and other peripheral tissues in mitochondria:
NH4+ + Glutamate + ATP > Glutamine + ADP + Pi (glutamine synthase)
-Transport
Reaction in liver
Glutamine + H2O > Glutamate + NH4+ (Glutaminase)
Glutamate > NH4+ (glutamate dehydrogenase)
NH4+ > urea in urea cycle (CPS, carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase)
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The liver enzymes glutaminase, glutamate dehydrogenase and carbamoyl phosphate synthase are all located in ...
mitochondria
> NH4+ is toxic (ammonium ion) and should be compartmentilized
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Protein breakdown is upregulated in starvation, how?
Autophagy initiated
> and protein breakdown in GI tract
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How long does it take of starvation for ketone bodies to be in high level (ketosis)?
A week
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Extreme starving characteristics and risks
Survival on vitamin supplements, potassium, sodium, non caloric drinks
> danger: low level of blood glucose, survival but not active, hypoglycemia
> continuous urea production from protein breakdown
> Danger: muscle breakdown
-Not an issue for skeletal muscle: grow it back later
-Issue for heart muscle breakdown
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Adipocytes can secrete adipokines and ...
cytokines
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HC25: Which pathways are active in the fed state?
Insulin rules (high blood glucose)
> Uptake glucose by muscle and adipocytes
> Storage as glycogen and fat/TAGs
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Which pathways are active in the fasted state?
Insulin levels drop, glucagon released in circulation by pancreatic alpha cells
> maintain glucose levels: glycogenolysis, gluconeogenesis in liver. Ketone body synthesis in liver.
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What do muscles make from glucose in the fed state? And adipocytes? And which other tissues need lots of glucose?
Muscle: make glycogen and FAs > TAGs.
Adipocyte: make FAs > TAGs
Erythrocytes and brain need glucose
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Transport lipids in fed state
From diet: Chylomicrons (intestine>lymph>blood)
From liver (made from glucose and incoming amino acids in liver) : VLDL
> Uptake by uscle and adipocytes to store as TAGs and use for energy (muscle)
> brain only uses glucose (and ketone bodies, not in fed state)
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Effects of insulin
-Activation glycogen synthase, inhibition glycogen phosphorylase (inactivates GS kinase by phosphorylation by PKB)
-Activation glycolysis enzymes in liver, synthesis glucokinase
-Breakdown of glucose is promoted in liver: cells have enough ATP, but liver has to overrule system because it needs to do something with the glucose (for example by F-2,6-BP) > FA synthesis (high energy) > transport and storage in adipose tissue
-Inhibition gluconeogenesis enzymes
- Activation acetyl-CoA carboxylase synthesis (palmitate synthesis, to store energy in TAGs)
- Inhibition glucagon production > reciprocal regulation (inhibit alpha cells)
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Glucagon effects
-Activation glycogen phosphorylase, inhibition glycogen synthase (through PKA which activates GP kinase and inactivates GS)
-Increase gluconeogenesis enzymes like pyruvate carboxylase
-Increase protein degradation in cell: autophagy
-Increase urea synthesis enzymes in liver
-increase TAG lipases activity in adipocytes (through PKA and Hormone sensitive lipase)
-inhibition acetyl-CoA carboxylase and enzymes Pentose Phosphate Pathway
-increase HMG-CoA synthase (ketone body synthesis committed)
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Exercise while in the fed state result on glycogen metabolism
Overrule signal of fed state (Glycogen phosphorylase-b dephosphorylated, no glucagon yet) > adrenalin will facilitate that calcium can bind to calmodulin in phosphorylase kinase for activation
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Fast glycogen regulation in liver (spontaneous exercise)
Adrenaline binds to alpha-adrenergic receptor
> Activation trimeric G-protein (GDP for GTP swap)
> Active G-protein activates Phospholipase C (PLC)
> PLC cleaves PIP2 to DAG and IP3
> IP3 facilitates Ca2+ release out of ER by binding IP3-sensitive Ca2+ channels.
> Ca2+ facilitates binding DAG to Protein Kinase C (PKC)
> Active PKC
> Ca2+ also activates GP kinase. Activation
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Fast regulation glycogen breakdown in muscle cell
Muscle cell reacts to adrenaline (like liver) and nerve impulses (liver does not)
> Adrenaline binds beta-adrenergic receptor
> Activation G-protein which activates adenylate cyclase which makes cAMP that activates PKA.
> PKA activates GP kinase and inactivates GS
> Nerve impulse opens Ca2+ channels on PM.
> Ca2+ binds calmodulin (delta subunits in GP) in GP kinase
> activation as well
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General regulation GP kinase by Ca2+ and PKA
GP-kinase binds Ca2+ by calmodulin subunits (because of adrenline in liver, muscle contraction in muscle)
> Partly active
GP kinase is also phosphorylated by PKA (because glucagon in liver, adrenaline in muscle)
> fully active
> extra step regulation: finetuning of enzyme activity
> Conversion GP-b to GP-a by GP kinase which is mostly in R-state, unless inhibited by glucose in liver or ATP/G-6-P in muscle (phosphorylation of both monomers using 2 ATP)
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Allosteric activation GP-b
AMP, GP-b will be a bit active (overrules phosphorylation state)
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When insulin rules in glycogen metabolism
Phosphorylation and deactivation GS kinase
PP1 can desphosphorylate and activate GS and inactivate GP
> Inhibition glucagon secretion, so PKA, GP kinase will not be active.
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What is important during starvation in metabolism
-Sufficient glucose in blood (all times for brain and heart)
> amino acids for long term
> Prevent protein degradation by making ketone bodies (ketosis (high concentration ketone bodies in blood, after a week) is healthy back up mechanism)
-Prevent protein degradation
> lower pace at long term because of ketogenesis
> gluconeogenesis also a little active even after a month
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Difference fasted state and starved state
-In starved state, all glycogen is gone (after 1.5 day)
-In muscle, fat breakdown is active, own fat storage. it takes free fatty acids from adipocytes.
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Lipid metabolism during starvation
Lipolysis of TAGs in adipocytes > FFAs to liver.
> Liver uses FAs for beta-oxidation and makes ketone bodies from acetyl-CoA.
> Ketone bodies to brain and muscle
> FFAs also to muscle
> Muscle uses ketone bodies and FAs for fuel.
> Glycerol used by liver for gluconeogenesis: provide energy to brain and red blood cells via glucose
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What happens to the released amino acids from proteolysis in muscle cells>
No storage space, transport alanine / glutamine to liver and breakdown to glucose (carbon skeleton) and urea
> glucose used to provide glucose for brain and red blood cell
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Precursors gluconeogenesis in liver
-Alanine and glutamine from protein
-Lactate from red blood cells
-Glycerol from adipocytes
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The cell contains limited amounts of ATP/ADP/AMP, NAD+/NADH and NADP+/NADPH. How is this possible during exercise?
Recycling of intermediates
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HC26: Sources of plasma glucose
-DIet
-Glycogenolysis
-Gluconeogenesis
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Insulin levels during day
Fluctuate: dependent on glucose intake
> ALWAYS basal level of glucose secretion to suppress alpha cells a bit in glucagon production.
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Insulin injection during night for diabetics: how much?
For the whole night
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Symtoms Diabetes mellitus type 1: blood glucose and urine
Sweet urine
High blood glucose (10 mM +)
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Untreated T1DM is called starvation in the midst of plenty, explain
Beta cells in pancreas destroyed, high glucagon even when high blood glucose (signalling starved state)
> Glycogen breakdown in liver to glucose and release to blood
> No GLUT4 transporters on muscle and adipose
> Protein breakdown in muscle and amino acid breakdown to glucose (carbon skeletons) and urea in liver
> Breakdown fat to FAs in adipocytes, release as FFAs (high concentration in blood)
> FFAs taken up by liver to make ketone bodies: ketoacidosis in blood
> FAs in liver used for making VLDL and TAG transfer (increased in blood)
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Concentrations of insulin, glucagon, glucose, ketone bodies and TAGs/FFAs in T1DM vs starvation
Insulin
> T1DM: absent, starvation: low
Glucagon
> T1DM: extremely high, starvation: increased (basal level insulin)
Glucose
> T1DM: extremely high, starvation: normal low
Ketone bodies
> T1DM: extremely high, starvation: moderately increased
TAGs/FFAs
> T1DM: high, starvation: normal
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Ketosis means
High concentrations of ketone bodies in blood
> healthy back-up mechanism
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Ketoacidosis meaning and process
Excessive amounts of ketone bodies in blood which leads to acidification of the blood.
> Release ketone bodies from hepatocytes: ketone bodies have negative charge and need cotransport of H+ to retain charge and voltage across membrane
> acidosis: dangerous for the blood: blood pH needs to be in brief window. (for function of blood components like HbA)
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How can T1DM patients get unconscious, and solution?
Insulin injection but no meal in a panic situation
> insulin signals glucose uptake, but there is no dietary glucose
> Hypoglycermia: 2 mM
> Solution: inject glucagon or epinephrine intramusclular or intravenous glucose administration
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Why do T1DM patients have an acetone smell breath?
Acetone is a product from the ketone body acetoacetate. Acetoacetate can be converted to acetone in a non-enzymatic spontaneous reaction. Acetone is a gas and in released in the breath and urine. (spontaneous decarboxylation, C4> C3)
> Acetoacetate is instable
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How can dehydration occur with T1DM untreated?
High glucose excretion via urine which takes along a lot of water in the kidneys through osmosis
> a lot of hydrogen bond acceptors (O/N) and donors (OH/NH)
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Patient with dehydration, deep and frequent acetone breath, and very high blood glucose (28 mM >> 10 mM). And acidosis (pH = 7.2, not in frame of 7.32-7.44). What is it and what to do?
-Ketoacidosis > untreated T1DM
-Ketone bodies in urine
> Buffer of pH in blood is bicarbonate (HCO3-): binds with H+ and breath out as CO2.
> remove acidity of the blood through CO2: deep and frequent breathing
> unconsciousness possible
Solution: intravenous insulin administration
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Bond in the glycation of proteins?
Schiff base bond
> hemoglobin for example
> HbA1c (glycated) is parameter for blood glucose over time
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Unconsciousness causes in T1DM
-Insulin injection but no meal
-Ketoacidosis very high: untreated T1DM or triggered by infection
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Glycation of hemoglobin
Open chain glucose reducing aldehyde end at carbon-1 reacts with epsilon-amino residue of HbA beta chain N-terminal
> reversible spontaneous non-enzymatic linkage through Schiff base linkage (-HC(nr.1)=N-Lys-HbA)
> irreversible spontaneous non-enzymatic Amadori rearrangement to HbA1c (H2C(nr.1)-N(H)-Lys-HbA)
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Problem glycation of proteins
loss of protein function and impaired elasticity of tissues such as blood vessels, skin, and tendons
> HbA1c increases chance of atherosclerosis and free radicals in erythrocytes
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T2DM characteristics
-Threat at obesity
-BMI: 26 is borderline healthy and overweight
-Insulin resistance (insensitive)
-No deficiency of insulin secretion
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Effect insulin resistance
-High insulin secretion
-GLUT4 inactive: no uptake glucose by muscle and adipocytes for storage
-Glycogen synthesis in liver not possible
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Is the insulin receptor expressed in T2DM?
Yes, but the signal transduction upon insulin binding doesn't function well.
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Effects metabolism in T2DM
-No glycogen synthesis in liver
-No uptake glucose by GLUT4
-Hyperglycemia
-Glucose and amino acid carbon skeletons in liver (from diet) used to make fat and transport as VLDL secrtion
> Inreased FAs and TAGs in blood
> normal chylomicrons through diet fats.
-Brain and erythrocytes take up glucose like normal
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Unregulated T2DM is less bad than T1DM, why
There is still insulin to dampen the glucagon secretion
> no ketoacidosis
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How does T2DM develop?
-Substrate competition because of high FA in plasma
-Glycolipids in plasma membrane: insulin receptors have reduced affinity for insulin
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Sources FAs in blood
-Food (chylomicrons)
-Fat from adipocytes: FFAs
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Fatty liver risk in obese persons
In healthy persons: adipocytes store TAGs.
Overweight > liver and muscle can store TAGs, fatty liver.
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Shulman hypothesis in T2DM for signalling and insulin resistance
-More fatty acids which can form DAG glycerol-3-P (FAs upregulated)
-DAG activates PKC (isozymes for liver and muscle)
-PKC phosphorylates the insulin receptor on the wrong place (on the serine or threonine, not the tyrosine)
> in some, but not all, insulin receptors
> those receptors are not properly activated
> Insulin binds receptor, but signal not properly transduced
> less signal transduction: insulin resistance
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Prevention and treatment strategies T2DM
-Treatment is reducing weight and FFAs and prevention is lifestyle chages.
> PPAR-gamma (TF) / thiazolidinedione promote conversion FAs to fat in adipocytes
> ATP use promotes beta-oxidation of FAs to generate energy through TCA cycle (oxidized to CO2 and H2O)
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Alcohol metabolism
Ethanol is converted to acetaldehyde by alcohol dehydrogenase. (in cytosol) (oxidation, yields 1 NADH)
Acetaldehyde is converted to acetic acid by aldehyde dehydrogenase (in mitochondria) (oxidation, yields 1 NADH)
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Asian mutations in alcohol metabolism
-Increased activity alcochol dehydrogenase
-Decreased activity aldehyde dehydrogenase
-Accumulation acetaldehyde
> red flush, headache, accelerated heart rate, shortness breath, blurred vision etc
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When a alcohol molecule is oxidized, it becomes a
aldehyde
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Danger of aldehydes
Aldehyde group is reactive
> can cross link and form Schiff bases (think of glycation (schiff base) and glycosylation (cross links)
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Inhibition of intake alcohol by disulfiram
> blocks aldehyde dehydrogenase
> faster accumulation acetaldehyde, stop drinking faster because drunk symptoms
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If a patient is unconscious with hypoglycemia (2.5 mM) and increased alcohol promillage (0.6). There is no creatine kinase in the blood. Is there a heart attack?
No.
> If there is no oxygen, (heart) muscle cells can burst > creatine kinase (for conversion creatine in creatine phosphate as reserve for substrate level phosphorylation) in blood.
> no heart attack, because no creatine kinase in blood
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Alcohol patient has high aspartate aminotransferase in blood. This means:
Liver damage
> Increased aspartate deamination (increased urea cycle) in liver
> Aspartate aminotransferase in blood? > liver cells are dying and release enzymes in blood
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Lactic acidosis in alcohol patient
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Treatment high aspartate aminotransferase and lactate and low pH blood in unconscious alcohol patient
Intravenous glucose
> what happened: no meal: low glycogen level reserve
> Glycogenolysis insufficient to maintain blood glucose levels
-Gluconeogenesis in liver, but is damaged: hepatocytes die because of toxic acetaldehyde
> cirrhosis: liver less active
> patient skinny: muscle breakdown to generate amino acids as substrate
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Consequences alcohol metabolism for glucose metabolism
-Generation high amount of NADH+ H+
-Pyruvate converted into lactate to regenerate NAD+
-Less pyruvate available for gluconeogenesis!
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Gluconeogenesis inhibited by excessive alcohol intake: through NADH+ H+. and other effects
1. Equilibrium lactate-pyruvate towards lactate
2. equilibrium gycerol-triose phosphates towards glycerol (make NAD+) > fatty liver induced
3. Transport of oxaloacetate via malate-shuttle towards mitochondria to regenerate NAD+
> Conversion NADPH into NADP+: glutathione regeneration disturbed: oxidative stress up
> TCA cycle blocked: Acetyl-CoA converted into ketone bodies: acidosis
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Liver cirrhosis process
Fatty liver > apoptosis > inflammation (hepatitis) > scar tissue (fibrosis)
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Alcohol and exercise dampens problems?
Burining ATP > use electron transport chain > NADH oxidized to NAD+ in oxidative phosphorylation instead of anaerobic glycolysis.
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Activator of ketogenesis
Acetyl-CoA (substrate)
> beta-oxidation FAs
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Muscles and brain can use ketone bodies for energy but not liver, why
No enzyme CoA-transferase for acetoacetate to acetoacetyl-CoA using succinyl-CoA > energy breakdown
> more acetyl-CoA from beta-oxidation, activate ketogenic enzymes
> liver is ketogenic, not ketolytic
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When ketone body synthesis
When concentrations acetyl-CoA rise dramatically
> untreated T1DM and starvation
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The HCO3- used by acetyl-CoA carboxylase in FA synthesis to make malonyl-CoA, where do these carbons appear in the FA?
Nowhere
During condensation in elongation cycle of malonyl-ACP and acetyl-ACP, it is removed as CO2.
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Ketolysis
Acetoacetate + succinyl-CoA > acetoacetate-CoA + succinate (CoA transferase, not in liver)
Acetoacetate-CoA + CoA > 2 Acetyl-CoA (thiolase)
