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. 1981 Jun 15;196(3):803–809. doi: 10.1042/bj1960803

2-Mercaptoacetate administration depresses the beta-oxidation pathway through an inhibition of long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase activity.

F Bauché, D Sabourault, Y Giudicelli, J Nordmann, R Nordmann
PMCID: PMC1163101  PMID: 7317017

Abstract

To elucidate the mechanisms through which 2-mercaptoacetate administration inhibits fatty acid oxidation in the liver, the respiration rates induced by different substrates were studied polarographically in rat hepatic mitochondria isolated 3 h after 2-mercaptoacetate administration. Palmitoyl-L-carnitine oxidation was almost completely inhibited in either the absence or presence of malonate. Octanoate oxidation was also inhibited, and the intramitochondrial acyl-CoA content was markedly increased. The oxidation rate of pyruvate and 2-oxoglutarate on the one hand and of 3-hydroxybutyrate, succinate and glutamate on the other was either normal or only slightly decreased. In the presence of 2,4-dinitrophenol, the extent of the inhibition of palmitoyl-L-carnitine oxidation was unchanged. All these results are consistent with the hypothesis that the 2-mercaptoacetate inhibition of fatty acid oxidation is due to an inhibition of the beta-oxidation pathway itself. Finally, the mitochondrial defect responsible for this inhibition was shown to be an inhibition of palmitoyl-CoA dehydrogenase activity (EC 1.3.99.3).

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