Abstract
The effects of chronic ethanol ingestion on the interconversion of the active to the inactive form of glycogen phosphorylase by phosphorylase phosphatase was studied. Male and female rats also were compared. Chronic ethanol feeding decreased phosphorylase a and total phosphorylase activity in male rats. In females, no change was observed in phosphorylase a, whereas total phosphorylase activity was increased 73%. This was found to correlate with the relative activities of phosphorylase phosphatase. The data show differences between the two sexes with regard to the AMP inhibition of phosphorylase phosphatase and the caffeine stimulation of the phosphatase. Ethanol markedly enhanced the AMP inhibition of the phosphatase in males but had no effect in females. Further studies in females showed that ethanol completely obliterated the well documented stimulation of the phosphatase by caffeine; however, it did not alter the caffeine effect in males. These data suggest possible alterations in the tertiary structure of phosphorylase a.
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