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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 2685-2694Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-198168
Keywords
adenylate energy charge; cN-1A; control coefficient
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- Interuniversity Attraction Poles Program-Belgian Science Policy [P6/28]
- Directorate General Higher Education and Scientific Research, French Community of Belgium
- Fund for Medical Scientific Research (Belgium)
- EXGENESIS from European Commission [LSHM-CT-2004-005272]
- Fund for Scientific Research in Industry and Agriculture (FRIA
- Belgium)
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We investigated whether overexpression of AMP-metabolizing enzymes in intact cells would modulate oligomycin-induced AMPK activation. Human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293T cells were transiently transfected with increasing amounts of plasmid vectors to obtain a graded increase in overexpression of AMP-deaminase (AMPD) 1, AMPD2, and soluble 5'-nucleotidase IA (cN-IA) for measurements of AMPK activation and total intracellular adenine nucleotide levels induced by oligomycin treatment. Overexpression of AMPD1 and AMPD2 slightly decreased AMP levels and oligomycin-induced AMPK activation. Increased overexpression of cN-IA led to reductions in the oligomycin-induced increases in AMP and ADP concentrations by similar to 70 and 50%, respectively, concomitant with a 50% decrease in AMPK activation. The results support the view that a rise in ADP as well as AMP is important for activation of AMPK, which can thus be regulated by the adenylate energy charge. The control coefficient of cN-IA on AMP was 0.3-0.7, whereas the values for AMPD1 and AMPD2 were <0.1, suggesting that in this model cN-IA exerts a large proportion of control over intracellular AMP. Therefore, small molecule inhibition of cN-IA could be a strategy for AMPK activation.-Plaideau, C., Liu, J., Hartleib-Geschwindner, J., Bastin-Coyette, L., Bontemps, F., Oscarsson, J., Hue, L., Rider, M. H. Overexpression of AMP-metabolizing enzymes controls adenine nucleotide levels and AMPK activation in HEK293T cells. FASEB J. 26, 2685-2694 (2012). www.fasebj.org
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