Ischemia promotes acyl-CoAs dephosphorylation and propionyl-CoA accumulation

Title

Ischemia promotes acyl-CoAs dephosphorylation and propionyl-CoA accumulation

Creator

Wentao He
Jessica M Berthiaume
Stephen Previs
Takhar Kasumov
Guo-Fang Zhang

Date

2023

Description

Introduction: Our untargeted metabolic data unveiled that Acyl-CoAs undergo dephosphorylation, however little is known about these novel metabolites and their physiology/pathology relevance.

Objectives: To understand the relationship between acyl-CoAs dephosphorylation and energy status as implied in our previous work, we seek to investigate how ischemia (energy depletion) triggers metabolic changes, specifically acyl-CoAs dephosphorylation in this work.

Methods: Rat hearts were isolated and perfused in Langendorff mode for 15 min followed by 0, 5, 15, and 30 minutes of global ischemia. The heart tissues were harvested for metabolic analysis.

Results: As expected, ATP and phosphocreatine were significantly decreased during ischemia. Most short- and medium-chain acyl-CoAs progressively increased with ischemic time from 0 to 15 min, whereas a 30-minute ischemia did not lead to further change. Unlike other acyl-CoAs, propionyl-CoA accumulated progressively in the hearts that underwent ischemia from 0 to 30 min. Progressive dephosphorylation occurred to all assayed acyl-CoAs and free CoA regardless their level changes during the ischemia.

Conclusion: The present work further confirms that dephosphorylation of acyl-CoAs is an energy-dependent process and how this dephosphorylation is mediated warrants further investigations. It is plausible that dephosphorylation of acyl-CoAs and limited anaplerosis are involved in ischemic injuries to heart. Further investigations are warranted to examine the mechanisms of acyl-CoA dephosphorylation and how the dephosphorylation is possibly involved in ischemic injuries.

Source

Metabolomics
. 2023 Feb 7;19(2):12. doi: 10.1007/s11306-023-01975-2.

Language

English

Citation

Wentao He et al., “Ischemia promotes acyl-CoAs dephosphorylation and propionyl-CoA accumulation,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed April 29, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/12248.