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. 2019 Apr 16;10:435. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00435

Table 4.

Main regulators of glucose and fatty acids metabolism in the heart.

Action Fatty acid oxidation Glucose oxidation Glycolysis
Stimulation ✓ Fatty acids (Fillmore et al., 2014) ✓ Insulin (Depré et al., 1998) ✓ Insulin, epinephrine (Depré et al., 1998)
✓ Adiponectin (Onay-Besikci et al., 2004) ✓ Epinephrine (Karwi et al., 2018) ✓ AMP, ADP, Pi, NAD+ (Kolwicz, 2018)
✓ Leptin (Hall et al., 2015) ✓ NAD+ (Kolwicz, 2018) ✓ Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (Madrazo and Kelly, 2008)
✓ Malonyl CoA decarboxylase (Dyck et al., 2004) ✓ AMP-activated protein kinase (Bairwa et al., 2016)
✓ AMP-activated protein kinase (Lopaschuk et al., 2010) ✓ Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha (Cerychova and Pavlinkova, 2018)
✓ Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors/peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1α/estrogen-related receptors (Lee et al., 2017; Rowe et al., 2010; Huss et al., 2004)
✓ Forkhead box protein O1(Puthanveetil et al., 2013)
Inhibition ✓ Glucose (Fillmore et al., 2014) ✓ Fatty Acids (Kodde et al., 2007) ✓ ATP, NADH (Kolwicz, 2018)
✓ Lactate (Kolwicz, 2018) ✓ ATP, NADH, Acetyl CoA (Kolwicz, 2018) ✓ Glucose 6-phosphate (Depré et al., 1998)
✓ Ketone bodies (Stanley et al., 2003) ✓ Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 4 (Fillmore et al., 2014) ✓ Citrate (Fillmore et al., 2014)
✓ Malonyl-CoA (Fillmore et al., 2014) ✓ Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (Lee et al., 2017)
✓ Acetyl CoA carboxylase 2 (Kolwicz et al., 2012) ✓ Forkhead box protein O1 (Gopal et al., 2017)
✓ Angiotensin II (Pellieux et al., 2009) ✓ Angotensin II (Mori et al., 2012)