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Role of mitochondria in hepatic fructose metabolism.

During metabolism of fructose at concentrations exceeding 5 mM, isolated liver cells accumulate fructose 1-phosphate and lose ATP. At added bicarbonate concentrations below 10 mM in the incubation medium, the addition of atractyloside (or carboxyatractyloside) causes a significant net accumulation of 2-phosphoglycerate, resulting in an increase in the ratio 2-phosphoglycerate: 3-phosphoglycerate from below 1 to greater than 5. Digitonin fractionation revealed that virtually all this 2-phosphoglycerate is associated with the mitochondrial fraction, where it achieves a concentration estimated to be about 40 mM. The amount of 2-phosphoglycerate that accumulates is directly related to the initial concentration of fructose. With DL-glyceraldehyde in place of fructose, an even greater accumulation of 2-phosphoglycerate occurs, and this is also dependent upon both the presence of atractyloside and low bicarbonate. Formation of 2-phosphoglycerate is also observed when isolated mitochondria from rat liver are incubated together with glyceraldehyde and an energy source. The obligatory role of atractyloside for the accumulation of 2-phosphoglycerate within intact cells indicates the involvement of the mitochondrial adenylate translocator in this process, possibly as a carrier directly responsible for 2-phosphoglycerate egress from the mitochondrial matrix. If this is so, competition between 2-phosphoglycerate and ATP for egress from the matrix would be predicted to further exaggerate the fructose-induced depletion of cytosolic ATP.[1]

References

  1. Role of mitochondria in hepatic fructose metabolism. Grivell, A.R., Halls, H.J., Berry, M.N. Biochim. Biophys. Acta (1991) [Pubmed]
 
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