Pyrroloquinoline Quinone Nutritional Status Alters Lysine Metabolism and Modulates Mitochondrial Dna Content in the Mouse and Rat.
From: Department of Nutrition, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, 3135 Meyer Hall, One Shields Avenue, UC Davis, Davis CA 95616, USA.
Biochimica et biophysica acta
- Publish Date: Nov 2006
- ISSN: 0006-3002
- Volume: 1760
- Issue: 11
- Pages: 1741-8
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Bauerly K A, Storms D H, Harris C B, et al. Pyrroloquinoline Quinone Nutritional Status Alters Lysine Metabolism and Modulates Mitochondrial Dna Content in the Mouse and Rat.. Biochim. Biophys. Acta Nov 2006;1760:1741-8
Abstract
Pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) added to purified diets devoid of PQQ improves indices of perinatal development in rats and mice. Herein, PQQ nutritional status and lysine metabolism are described, prompted by a report that PQQ functions as a vitamin-like enzymatic cofactor important in lysine metabolism (Nature 422 [2003] 832). Alternatively, we propose that PQQ influences lysine metabolism, but by mechanisms that more likely involve changes in mitochondrial content. PQQ deprivation in both rats and mice resulted in a decrease in mitochondrial content. In rats, alpha-aminoadipic acid (alphaAA), which is derived from alpha-aminoadipic semialdehyde (alphaAAS) and made from lysine in mitochondria, and the plasma levels of amino acids known to be oxidized in mitochondria (e.g., Thr, Ser, and Gly) were correlated with changes in the liver mitochondrial content of PQQ-deprived rats, but not PQQ-supplemented rats. In contrast, the levels of NAD dependent alpha-aminoadipate-delta-semialdehyde dehydrogenase (AASDH), a cytosolic enzyme important to alphaAA production from alphaAAS, was not influenced by PQQ dietary status. Moreover, the levels of U26 mRNA were not significantly changed even when diets differed markedly in PQQ and dietary lysine content. U26 mRNA levels were measured, because of U26’s proposed, albeit questionable role as a PQQ-dependent enzyme involved in alphaAA formation.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): 2-Aminoadipic Acid, Animals, DNA, Mitochondrial, Female, L-Aminoadipate-Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase, Lysine, Mice, Nutritional Status, PQQ Cofactor, Pregnancy, Proteins, RNA, Messenger, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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