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. 1981 Mar 1;193(3):935–946. doi: 10.1042/bj1930935

Occupancy of sites of phosphorylation in inactive rat heart pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate in vivo.

G J Sale, P J Randle
PMCID: PMC1162688  PMID: 7305968

Abstract

1. Inactive pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate complexes were partially purified from hearts of fed, starved or alloxan-diabetic rats by using conditions that prevent phosphorylation or dephosphorylation. 2. Unoccupied sites of phosphorylation were assayed by incorporation of 32P from [gamma-32P]ATP into the complexes. Total sites of phosphorylation were assayed by the same method after complete reactivation, and thus dephosphorylation, of complexes by incubation with pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate phosphatase. Occupancy is assumed from the difference (total sites--unoccupied sites). Percentage incorporation into individual sites was measured by high-voltage electrophoresis after tryptic digestion. 3. Values (means +/- S.E.M., in nmol of phosphate/unit of inactive complex) for total sites, occupied sites and percentage occupancies, with numbers of observations in parentheses were: fed, 2.1 +/- 0.04, 1.15 +/- 0.04, 54.8 +/- 1.6% (39); starved, 2.05 +/- 0.03, 1.85 +/- 0.03, 90.2 +/- 1.4% (28); alloxan-diabetic, 1.99 +/- 0.03, 1.72 +/- 0.03, 86.4 +/- 1.4% (68%). 4. Values (means +/- S.E.M. for percentage occupancy) for individual sites of phosphorylation in pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate given in the order sites 1, 2 and 3 were : fed, 100 +/- 2.7, 27.8 +/- 1.6, 33.9 +/- .9; starved, 100 +/- 1.4, 76.2 +/- 2.0, 92.4 +/- 1.5; alloxan-diabetic, 100 +/- 1.2, 64.0 +/- 1.7, 94.6 +/- 1.4. 5. It is concluded that starvation or alloxan-diabetes leads to a 2--3-fold increase in the occupancy of phosphorylation sites 2 and 3 in pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate in rat heart in vivo.

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