Abstract
The effects of two peroxisome proliferators, p-chlorophenoxyisobutyric acid ( clofibric acid) and 2,2'-( decamethylenedithio) diethanol ( tiadenol), on cytosolic long-chain acyl-CoA hydrolase and peroxisomal β-oxidation were studied in several organs of rat. Among organs of control rats, the brain had the highest activity of long-chain acyl-CoA hydrolase, followed by testis, and a low activity was found in other tissues. Administration of the peroxisome proliferators caused a marked increase in activity of long-chain acyl-CoA hydrolase in both liver and intestinal mucosa and a slight increase in the activity in kidney, but little affected acyl-CoA hydrolase activity in either brain, testis, heart, spleen and skeletal muscle. In accordance with the change in the activity of acyl-CoA hydrolase, the activity of peroxisomal β-oxidation was markedly increased in liver, intestinal mucosa and kidney, and a slight increase was found in brain and testis, whereas peroxisome proliferators little affected the activity in other organs tested. Gel filtration of cytosol from intestinal mucosa showed that clofibric acid caused an appearance of a new peak in intestinal mucosa. Although cytosol of liver, intestinal mucosa, brain and testis contained two 4-nitrophenyl acetate esterases with different molecular weights (about 105000 and about 55000), these esterases are different from cytosolic long-chain acyl-CoA hydrolases of these four organs in respect of molecular weight. The administration of clofibric acid little affected cytosolic 4-nitrophenyl acetate esterases. Comparative studies on cytosolic long-chain acyl-CoA hydrolases from these four organs showed that liver hydrolase I (molecular weight of about 80000) had properties similar to those of brain and testis enzymes. On the other hand, intestinal mucosa enzyme was different from either hepatic hydrolase I or II (molecular weight of about 40000). The results from the present study suggest that inductions of peroxisomal β-oxidation and cytosolic long-chain acyl-CoA hydrolases are essential responses of rats to peroxisome proliferators not only in liver but also in intestinal mucosa and that induced hydrolases are not attributable to non-specific esterases.
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