atractyloside and 9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine

Incubation of isolated rat hepatocytes with metabolic inhibitors causes an increase in the -glucose 6-P/+glucose 6-P activity ratio of glycogen synthase after decreasing ATP and increasing AMP levels. Concomitantly, the activity of phosphorylase is increased six-fold by the same treatment. This activation of both enzymes remains after gel filtration of the hepatocyte extracts. Addition of metabolic inhibitors to cells pretreated with an inhibitor of AMP-deaminase results in an accumulation of AMP and, simultaneously, in a further increase in the activation state of glycogen synthase. The correlation coefficient between the intracellular concentration of AMP and glycogen synthase activity is r = 0.93. It is proposed that the covalent activation of glycogen synthase by metabolic inhibitors can be triggered by changes in the level of the intracellular concentrations of adenine nucleotides.

Topics: 2,4-Dinitrophenol; Adenine; Adenine Nucleotides; Animals; Atractyloside; Carbonyl Cyanide m-Chlorophenyl Hydrazone; Dinitrophenols; Enzyme Activation; Glycogen Synthase; Inosine Monophosphate; Liver; Phosphorylases; Rats