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. 1968 Jul;108(4):667–673. doi: 10.1042/bj1080667

The effect of starvation and starvation followed by feeding on enzyme activity and the metabolism of [U-14C]glucose in liver from growing chicks

Alan G Goodridge 1,*
PMCID: PMC1198866  PMID: 5667280

Abstract

1. The conversion of [U-14C]glucose into carbon dioxide, cholesterol and fatty acids in liver slices and the activities of `malic' enzyme, citrate-cleavage enzyme, NADP-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase and hexose monophosphate-shunt dehydrogenases in the soluble fraction of homogenates of liver were measured in chicks that were starved or starved then fed. 2. In newly hatched chicks the incorporation of [U-14C]glucose and the activity of `malic' enzyme did not increase unless the birds were fed. The response to feeding of [U-14C]glucose incorporation into fatty acids increased as the starved chicks grew older. 3. Citrate-cleavage enzyme activity increased slowly even when the newly hatched chicks were unfed. On feeding, citrate-cleavage enzyme activity increased at a much faster rate. 4. In normally fed 20-day-old chicks starvation decreased the incorporation of [U-14C]glucose into all three end products and depressed the activities of `malic' enzyme and citrate-cleavage enzyme. Re-feeding increased all of these processes to normal or higher-than-normal levels. 5. In both newly hatched and 20-day-old chicks starvation increased the activity of isocitrate dehydrogenase and feeding or re-feeding decreased it. 6. Very little change in hexose monophosphate-shunt dehydrogenase activity was observed during the dietary manipulations. 7. The results indicate that increased substrate delivery to the liver is the principal stimulus to the increased rate of glucose metabolism observed in newly hatched chicks. The results also suggest that changes in the activities of `malic' enzyme and citrate-cleavage enzyme are secondary to an increased flow of metabolites through the glucose-to-fatty acid pathway and that the dehydrogenases of the hexose monophosphate shunt play a minor role in NADPH production for fatty acid synthesis.

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