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Diabetes, Vol 46, Issue 12 1945-1949, Copyright © 1997 by American Diabetes Association

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Regulation of hepatic glutaminase in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat

SA Squires, HS Ewart, C McCarthy, ME Brosnan and JT Brosnan
Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada.

The liver of diabetic animals removes increased quantities of glutamine. We therefore examined factors that affect hepatic glutaminase activity in hepatocytes and mitochondria. Glutamine use, through glutaminase, was measured in isolated rat hepatocytes by monitoring the production of 14CO2 from [1-(14)C]glutamine. Hepatocytes from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats use glutamine more rapidly than do hepatocytes from normal or insulin-maintained diabetic rats. Glutamine use in all of these hepatocytes was stimulated by glucagon and epinephrine. Glutaminase activity, assayed in broken mitochondrial membranes, was increased approximately 2.5-fold in diabetic rats. The sensitivity of glutaminase, measured in intact liver mitochondria, to phosphate was markedly left-shifted in mitochondria from diabetic rats compared with those from controls. In fact, glutaminase was increased 10-fold at 2.5 mmol/l phosphate compared with controls. This increased sensitivity of glutaminase to physiological concentrations of phosphate is characteristic of its hormonal activation. Therefore, activation of glutaminase plays a major role in diabetes and is as important as increases in its total enzyme amount in determining the increased glutamine uptake in diabetes.
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