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Term
What pathways is glucose 6-phosphate a key intermediate in?
Definition
glycolysis, glycogenesis
Term
What is glycerol 3-phosphate a key intermediate in?
Definition
glycerol 3-phosphate shuttle, TAG synthesis
Term
What is pyruvate a key intermediate for?
Definition
lactate, acetyl CoA, GNG
Term
What is lactate a key intermediate for?
Definition
GNG (Cori cycle), pyruvate
Term
What is acetyl CoA a key intermediate for?
Definition
TCA, ketones, cholesterol
Term
What is malonyl CoA a key intermediate for?
Definition
de novo FA synthesis, inhibit CPT1
Term
What is a-ketogluterate a key intermediate for?
Definition
TCA, transamination- urea cycle, malate/aspartate shuttle
Term
What is succinyl CoA a key intermediate for?
Definition
TCA, ETC
Term
What is fumarate a key intermediate for?
Definition
TCA, urea cycle
Term
What is oxaloacetate a key intermediate for?
Definition
TCA, malate/aspartate shuttle, citrate shuttle, transamination- urea cycle
Term
What is alanine a key intermediate for?
Definition
Glucose/alanine cycle
Term
What is glutamine a key intermediate for?
Definition
urea cycle, glutamate
Term
What is aspartate a key intermediate for?
Definition
urea cycle
Term
What action does insulin have?
Definition
dephosphorylates
Term
What action does glucagon have?
Definition
phosphorylates
Term
What action do catecholamines have?
Definition
phosphorylates
Term
What action does cortisol have?
Definition
BCAA catabolism
Term
What action does triiodothyronine have?
Definition
decreases in starvation
Term
What actions do the gut hormones have?
Definition
Increase digestion
Term
When insulin is increasing muscle glucose uptake, what is its target enzyme?
Definition
It is increasing glucose transporter
Term
When insulin is increasing glucose uptake in the liver, what target enzyme is it acting on?
Definition
It is increasing glucokinase
Term
When insulin's metabolic effect is on glycogen synthesis in the liver and muscle, what target enzyme does it have?
Definition
Term
When insulin is causing a decrease glycogen breakdown in the liver and muscle, what target enzyme is it acting on?
Definition
It is decreasing glucogen phosphorylase
Term
When insulin is causing an increase in glycolysis and acetyl CoA production in the liver and muscle, what target enzyme is it acting on?
Definition
Causes an increase in phosphofructokinase -1, and pyruvate dehydrogenase complex
Term
When insulin is causing an increase in fatty acid synthesis in the liver, what target enzyme is it acting on?
Definition
Increase of acetyl CoA carboxylase
Term
When insulin is effecting increase of triacylglycerol synthesis in the adipose tissue, what is its target enzyme?
Definition
It is causing an increase in lipoprotein lipase
Term
How is glucokinase regulated and what does it do?
Definition
Regulated by regulatory protein, GKRP, that binds and stores GK in the nucleus until levels of glucose in the liver rise
Term
What does AMPK do?
Definition
Introduced by high levels of AMP, phosphorylates GKRP and makes it inactive
Term
What is the central role of the liver with lipids?
Definition
  • Ketone formation
  • Storages as triacylglycerols (fatty liver)
  • Cholesterol synthesis
  • Lipoprotein synthesis
  • Bile acids/salts synthesis
  • Beta-oxidation
  • Fatty acid synthesis 
Term
What is the central role of the liver with carbohydrates?
Definition
  • Pentose phosphate pathway (NADPH or nucleotides)
  • Maintaining blood glucose homeostasis- GNG
  • Glycogen: storage
  • Glycolysis: pyruvate 
Term
What is the central role of the liver with proteins?
Definition
  • AA catabolism
  • Synthesis of apoproteins
  • Synthesis of plasma proteins
  • Synthesis of nitrogen contraining compounds
  • Urea cycle 
Term
What are the sources of fuel during rest?
Definition
  • Fat predominant source (80-90%)
  • CHO (5-18%)
  • Proteins (2-5%) 
Term
What are the sources of fuel during exercise?
Definition
  • Muscle glycogen
  • Plasma glucose
  • Plasma fatty acids
  • IMTG 
Term
What are the sources of 95% of the energy for exercise?
Definition
Glucose and glycogen, FFAs (bound to albumin in the blood) and IMTGs
Term
What is the role of malonyl CoA in muscle?
Definition
Inhibitor of CPT1 in the cytosol preventing B-oxidation
Term
At what % of VO2max does the average person switch from FAs to CHO as a primary fuel during exercise?
Definition
50%
Term
What affect would an increase of [AMP] have on the type of fuel used during exercise?
Definition
  • Increase activity of PFK (positive allosteric effector)
  • Increase activity of glycogen phosphorylase b (positive effector)
  • Increase the activity of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)- phosphorylate GS (making it inactive) 
Term
What is measured at the tissue?
Definition
RQ
Term
What is a whole body measurement?
Definition
RER
Term
What is a normal RER range?
Definition
.7-1.0
Term
What is the RER for lipids?
Definition
.7
Term
What is the RER for carbohydrates?
Definition
1.0
Term
What does it mean when the RER is over 1.0?
Definition
During rest, the body is in FA synthesis. During exercise, achieved VO2max.
Term
What is the predominant hormone when the body is in a fed state?
Definition
Insulin
Term
What kind of processes will the body shift to when it is in a fed state?
Definition
Anabolic processes
Term
What does glycogenesis do during a fed state in the muscle and liver?
Definition
Dephosphorylation, and GS is active and GP is inactive
Term
What does TAG synthesis in adipose tissue do in a fed state?
Definition
Causes increased LPL activity
Term
What does increased protein synthesis do during a fed state in all cells?
Definition
It dephosphorylates BCAD kinase making it active, which phosphorylates BCAD making it inactive.
Term
What happens in a fed state when excess energy is stored as fat?
Definition
Fat is an efficient source of energy for use during times of limited food intake.
Term
What is the predominant hormone during a post-absorptive/fasted state?
Definition
Glucagon
Term
What kind of processes will the cells shift from during post-absorptive or fasted states?
Definition
Catabolic processes
Term
What happens during glycogenolysis in a fasted state?
Definition
Phosphorylates: GS inactive, and GP active
Term
What happens during lipolysis in a fasted state?
Definition
Perilipin removed, and HSL active
Term
What happens with increased protein degradation and amino acid catabolism in a fasted state?
Definition
BCKAD becomes active
Term
How are pathways designed to deal with fasted states?
Definition
Designed to maintain blood glucose homeostasis to ensure that brain and heart have sufficient fuel to sustain basic functions
Term
What are the key enzymes of glycogenesis/glycogenolysis?
Definition

Glycogen phosphorylase

Glycogen synthase

Term
How is glycogen phosphorylase regulated and in what pathway?
Definition

Glycogenesis, glycogenolysis

Glucagon, epi, Ca2+

Covalent- GPK- phosphorylation = active

Allosteric- [AMP], Pi, ATP, Glucose (G 6-P)

Protein phosphatase 1

Term
How is glycogen synthase regulated and in what pathway?
Definition

Glycogenesis, glycogenolysis

Covalent- GSKa, GPKa, PKA, CaMK, AMPK- phosphorylation = inactive

Protein phosphatase 1

Term
When is glycogenolysis favored?
Definition
Fasting, post-absorptive, starvation (to a point)
Term
When is glycogenesis favored?
Definition
Fed
Term
What are the key enzymes in gluconeogenesis?
Definition

Pyruvate carboxylase

PEPCK

Fructose 1,6 bisphosphatase

Glucose 6-phosphatase

 

Term
How is gluconeogenesis regulated?
Definition

Pyruvate carboxylase- allosteric activation by acetyl CoA

PEPCK- transcriptional regulation via PKA

Term
When is gluconeogenesis favored?
Definition
Post-absorptive, fasting, starvation
Term
What are the key enzymes in glycolysis?
Definition

Hexokinase

PFK1

Pyruvate kinase

Term
How is glycolysis regulated?
Definition
  • PFK1- allosteric regulation
  • AMP/ADP (+)
  • Pi (+)
  • F-2,6-bis P (+)- when glucose level is low, glucagon is released into the bloodstream, triggering a cAMP signal cascade. Protein kinase A thus activated phosphorylates the bifunctional enzyme, activating FBPase2 which lowers frustose 2,6-bisphosphate (F-2,6-BP) levels. Because F-2,6-BP normally stimulates phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK1), the decrease in its concentration leads to the inhibition of glycolysis and the stimulation of gluconeogenesis
  • ATP (-)
  • Citrate (-1)
  •  Pyruvate kinase (PK)
  • Phosphorylation inhibits PK by PKA
Term
When is glycolysis favored?
Definition
During fed state, exercise
Term
What are the key enzymes in the TCA cycle?
Definition

Citrate synthase

Isocitrate dehydrogenase

a-ketogluterate DH

Term
How is citrate synthase a regulator of the TCA cycle?
Definition
NADH is a negative allosteric effector, and citrate is a competitive inhibitor for oxaloacetate
Term
How is isocitrate DH a regulator of the TCA cycle?
Definition
NADH is a negative allosteric effector, and Ca2+ is an activator
Term
How is a-ketogluterate DH a regulator of the TCA cycle?
Definition
NADH is a negative allosteric effector, succinyl CoA is a competitive inhibitor for CoA, and Ca2+ is an activator
Term
What are the key enzymes of lipolysis?
Definition

Perilipin

HSL

Term
How does perilipin regulate lipolysis?
Definition
It is phosphorylated by PKA and releases  TG's
Term
How does HSL regulate lipolysis?
Definition
Activation by phosphorylation by PKA- attacks DAG and MAG
Term
When is lipolysis favored?
Definition
During a post-absorptive, fasting, starvation or exercise? state
Term
When is TAG synthesis favored?
Definition
  1. Following a meal in which there is food fat found in chylomicrons
  2. Following a meal in which there is CHO, providing a source of glucose to produce glycerol 3-P in adipocytes
  3. An increase in blood insulin concentration facilitates TAG synthesis
  • helps get glucose into fat cells
  • increased LPL activity in adipose tissue
  • helps get fatty acids into cells (FAT/CD36)
  • opposes the reverse process- lipolysis or TAG breakdown 
Term
What is the key enzyme in beta-oxidation?
Definition
Malonyl CoA decarboxylase
Term
What is the regulation of beta-oxidation?
Definition

FA entry into the mitochondria, this is favored when CPT1 is not inactivated by malonyl CoA from ACC reaction

 

MCD breaks down Malonyl CoA to remove this inhibition

Term
When is beta-oxidation favored?
Definition
Post-absorptive, fasting, starvation states, exercise?
Term
What are the key enzymes of fatty acid synthesis?
Definition
ACC and FAS
Term
What is the regulation of fatty acid synthesis?
Definition

ACC

*Citrate is a positive allosteric effectors

*Malonyl CoA and LCFA CoA are negative allosteric effectors

*ACC1 is inhbited by phosphorylation by AMPK and PKA

FAS

*Gene expression

 

Term
When is fatty acid synthesis favored?
Definition
Fed state
Term
What are the key enzymes of protein catabolism?
Definition
BCKAD and CPS1
Term
What is the regulation of protein catabolism?
Definition
  • BCKAD
  • Phosphorylation by BCKAD kinase decreases activity
  • Dephosphorylation by BCKAD phosphatase increases activity
  • The products allosterically inhibit BCKAD
  • Starvation, prolonged exercise, and poorly controlled diabetes inhibit kinase
  • Cortisol (a glucocorticoid) will inhibit the kinase

*increasing the oxidation of BCAA (AA catabolism)

  •  Insulin increases BCKAD kinase activity

*Reducing the oxidation of BCAA and promoting their inclusion in proteins (an anabolic process)

  • CPS1

*The enzyme is allosterically activated by N-acetyl glutamate (NAG)

-NAG formed by N-acetyl glutamate synthetase

__dependent on Arg- if Arg builds up from the urea cycle (it is going to slow), it increases the production of NAG

 

 
 
 
 
 
Term
What does insulin do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does glucagon do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does glycogenesis do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does glycogenolysis do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases, or decreases depending on initial glycogen stores
Term
What does glycolysis do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does GNG do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does protein synthesis do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does protein degeneration do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does lipolysis do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does TAG synthesis do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does urea cycle activity do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increase
Term
What does b-oxidation do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does FA synthesis do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does PFK1 do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does PFK2 do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does GPK do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does GS do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does GP do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does pyruvate kinase do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does PDH do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does ACC1 do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does MCD do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What happens to pyruvate carboxylase after fasting 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does BCKAD do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What does BCKAD kinase do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Decreases
Term
What does CPS1 do after fasting for 24 hours?
Definition
Increases
Term
What is the role of the muscle in metabolism?
Definition
The muscle uses metabolic energy to perform mechanical work.
Term
What is the role of the brain in metabolism?
Definition
The brain uses energy to pump ions against concentration gradients to transfer electrical impulses
Term
What is the role of adipose tissue in metabolism?
Definition
Stores fats, which upon release provide energy for the rest of the body.
Term
What organ is central to all the processes in metabolism (muscle, brain, adipose tissue)?
Definition
The liver... it is the processor and distributor in metabolism. Furnishes a proper combination of nutritents by way of blood stream to other organs and tissues, it is the initial insult with metabolic overnutrition
Term
What is the Westernized diet?
Definition
Situation of overnutrition (more carbs, more fat, more protein) which causes stress to the liver.
Term
What are some of the effects of insulin?
Definition
You can't suppress GNG when you have high levels of insulin (caused by overnutrition), and overnutrition causes increased fat storage
Term
What are plasma proteins used for?
Definition
Transport of FAs, immune response w/ ER, stress
Term
Where is the glycogen in the liver derived from?
Definition
glucose from GNG
Term
What is converted to pyruvate in the glucose-alanine cycle?
Definition
Alanine is converted to pyruvate
Term
What are the liver lipids?
Definition
Phospholipids, TGs
Term
Is the liver a predominant source of FAs in the blood?
Definition

No.

 

With overnutrition you generate more FAs

Term
What is fatty liver disease?
Definition
Storing more TGs in the liver than should be there
Term
What are the four phases of fed-fasted cycle and how long do they last?
Definition

Fed state- ~3 hours after meal

Post-absorptive or early fasting- 3 to 18 hours following a meal

Fasting state- 18 hours- 2 days without additional food

Starvation state- fully adapted state of food deprivation lasting as long as several weeks

Term
How can glucose be converted to FAs?
Definition
FA synthesis and gluconeogenesis
Term
What two systems immediately oxidize glucose for energy and why?
Definition

RBCs have no mitochondria and burn glucose anaerobically

CNS cannot store energy

Term
What occurs with chylomicrons in a fed state?
Definition
TAG and FAs are removed by lipoprotein lipase and stored in the adipose tissue
Term
How is the glucose that bypasses the liver metabolized in a fed state?
Definition

3 ways:

RBCS

Adipose tissue (glucose becomes glycerol which becomes TAG)

Muscle is stored as glycogen

Term
What occurs with amino acids in a fed state?
Definition
They are converted from pyruvate to acetyl CoA to fatty acids, and there is protein synthesis in liver, muscle, adipose tissue, and other organs/systems
Term
What are the gluconeogenic precursers?
Definition
AAs and lactate
Term
What are you releasing early in a fasted state when muscle protein is broken down?
Definition
Alanine
Term
Can tissues derive energy directly from ingested glucose, fatty acids, and amino acids in a postabsorptive state?
Definition
No
Term
What is the major provider of glucose in a postabsorptive state?
Definition
Hepatic glycogenesis, and glycogen and TAG synthesis are diminished
Term
What do FAs come from in a postabsorptive state?
Definition
adipose tissue
Term
What proteins are important to the shift in FA metabolism vs glucose?
Definition
PFK, PDH, acetyl CoA carboxylase, malonyl CoA decarboxylase
Term
What maintains glucose in a postabsorptive state?
Definition
gluconeogenesis, and glucose-alanine cycle becomes important
Term
What is the primary source of glucose in a fasting state?
Definition
Gluconeogenesis, also liver glycogen is depleted
Term
What are some of the prominent substrates in a fasting state?
Definition

Amino acids from muscle are the primary substrate, glycerol and lactate

 

These are stimulated by glucagon and cortisol due to lower glucose levels in the blood

Term
What amino acids does muscle proteolysis provide during a fasting state and WHY?
Definition
Leucine and lysine, they are an important energy source forbrain, heart, and skeletal muscle as fasting continues
Term
Why are there large daily losses of urinary nitrogen in a fasting state?
Definition
because of proteolysis and amino acid, need to get rid of urea
Term
What is the effect of starvation on protein synthesis?
Definition
Decreases, and there is a reduction in mRNA needed for translation of proteins and a decreased rate of peptide bond formation
Term
How do hormones adjust during starvation?
Definition

Insulin production willl rapidly decrease

Muscle and adipose tissue will become resistant to insulin


Glucagon will continue to stay elevated, cortisol will increase initially and decrease, and thyroid hormone decreases

Term
What occurs with glucagon in a starvation state?
Definition
The glucagon promotes fatty acid metabolism from adipose tissue, promotes ketone production, and gluconeogenesis
Term
What does cortisol do during starvation?
Definition
Promotes catabolism of muscle protein to provide amino acids as a substrate for gluconeogenesis
Term
What does T3 do during starvation?
Definition
Reduced production results in decreased metabolic rate
Term
What are some things that will happen the first few days of starvation?
Definition
Liver glycogen is depleted, the muscle undergoes proteolysis (releases a mixture of AAs with high concentrations of alanine on glutamine), and glucose is made in the liver from lactate and glycerol
Term
Why does metabolic fuel shift change in starvation and what is the predominant source of energy?
Definition

Proteins need to be conserved to live, and fuel ulization changes as result from gluconeogenesis to lipolysis... FAs become predominant energy source as well as ketones

 

As a result of switch to lipolysis glycerol becomes gluconeogenic precursor to spare AAs

Term
What are some of the overall effects of starvation?
Definition
Organ shrinkage, villi in gut shrink which means less capacity to absorb nutrients, and the total body will shut down and DIE
Term
What happens with continued, long-term starvation?
Definition
Fat reserves become depleted, muscle proteolysis will begin again,  nonessential AAs will be used first and then essentials
Term
How does survival depend on fat stores?
Definition
Normal weight can survive up to 3 months, and extremely obese up to a year
Term
What happens when there is no protein intake for 3 days?
Definition
Protein breakdown will increase
Term
What happens when there is no protein breakdown for 40 days?
Definition
Protein breakdown will increase (proteolysis)
Term
What will happen with adequate energy intake with zero protein?
Definition
Increase in proteolysis
Term
What can occur with homeostasis when you have a problem with the vascular system?
Definition
You can't get insulin or catecholamines where they need to go
Term
When does the first endocrine response to food occur and how?
Definition
In the gastrointestinal tract, and sensors in the lumen initiate secretion in the blood... triggers include glucose, FA, AAs, and pH
Term
Acute adaptation
Definition
Measured in minutes to hours, post-absorptive state
Term
Chronic adaptation
Definition
Term
Chronic adaptation
Definition
Measured in hours and days, fasting or starvation
Term
What hormones are the regulators in a fed state? What about a fasted state?
Definition

In fasted state, insulin is no longer a regulator but the catecholamines are

*glucagon

*epinephrine

*norepinephrine

Term
What is the endocrine function of glycogenesis in a fasted state? Hormones?
Definition

Acute,

glucagon in the liver

epinephrine

norepinephrine

Term
What is the endocrine function in a fasted state in gluconeogenesis? What hormones?
Definition
Chronic, glucagon
Term
What endocrine hormones function in a fasted state during TAG hydrolysis?
Definition

glucagon

epinephrine

norepinephrine

Term
What endocrine hormones function in a fasted state with proteolysis?
Definition
Cortisol
Term

What is happening with adipose tissue in a fed state with:

Lipolysis

TAG synthesis

What are the important hormones?

Definition

Lipolysis- inactive

TAG synthesis- active

Hormones- insulin, will suppress lipolysis and increase TAG

Term

What is happening with adipose tissue in a fasted state with:

Lipolysis

TAG synthesis

What are the important hormones?

Definition

Lipolysis- active

TAG synthesis- inactive

What are the important hormones for regulation?

glucagon

epinephrine

norepinephrine

Term

What is happening in skeletal muscle in a fed state?

Glycolysis

Beta-oxidation

Definition

Glycolysis- active

Beta oxidation- inactive

Term

What is happening in skeletal muscle in a fasted state?

Glycolysis

Beta-oxidation

Definition

Glycolysis- inactive

Beta oxidation- active

Term

What is happening in the liver during a fed state?

Glycogen metabolism

Gluconeogenesis

Lipid synthesis

Definition

Glycogen metabolism- inactive

Gluconeogenesis- inactive

Lipid synthesis- active

 

Term

What is happening in the liver during a fasted state?

Glycogen metabolism

Gluconeogenesis

Lipid synthesis

Definition

Glycogen metabolism- active

Gluconeogenesis- active

Lipid synthesis- inactive

Term
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Definition
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