PMID: 489538Oct 10, 1979Paper

Phosphorylation of ATP citrate lyase in response to glucagon.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
A M JanskiR L Veech

Abstract

Incubation of hepatocytes with [32P]orthophosphate resulted in the incorporation of 32P into material that is precipitated by reaction with antibodies to ATP citrate lyase. The amount of radioactivity precipitated was decreased when unlabeled, purified ATP citrate lyase was added to extracts of hepatocytes that had been incubated with [32P]orthophosphate. Addition of glucagon to hepatocytes that had been preincubated with [32P]orthophosphate resulted in a 56% increase in acid-stable 32P in the trichloroacetic acid-insoluble portion of immunoprecipitates. Catalytic phosphate bound to ATP citrate lyase reaction with ATP and Mg2+ is acid-labile; thus, glucagon-dependent phosphorylation is distinguished from the catalytic phosphate. When hepatocytes were incubated in the absence of [32P]orthophosphate and extracted in a medium containing [gamma-32P]ATP, no acid-stable 32P was present in immunoprecipitates. This indicates that the incorporation into ATP citrate lyase of acid-stable phosphate occurs prior to extraction of the enzyme. Preliminary studies, using a procedure that allows for measurement of enzyme activity starting 1 min after beginning the extraction of lyase from hepatocytes, have shown no difference in lyase activity w...Continue Reading

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