Abstract
Gradual acclimation to mild cold for 6 weeks increases the total activity of thyroxine 5'-deiodinase in brown adipose tissue (BAT) of genetically obese (ob/ob) mice to a level greater than that in similarly acclimated lean mice. This increase is largely due to the growth of the BAT in the ob/ob mouse, because specific activity of the enzyme is only slightly increased. In similarly cold-acclimated lean mice, the specific activity of thyroxine 5'-deiodinase was not altered. BAT mitochondrial GDP binding increased to the same high level in the gradually cold-acclimated ob/ob mouse as in cold-acclimated lean mice. We conclude that the growth and maintenance of BAT in the cold-acclimated ob/ob mouse, as in the cold-acclimated lean mouse, does not require greatly increased activity of thyroxine 5'-deiodinase. Fasting for 48 hr did not alter thyroxine 5'-deiodinase activity of BAT in either lean or ob/ob mice. The fasting-induced increase in activity seen by others in lean mice is probably due to thermoregulatory stimulation of BAT occasioned by the low environmental temperature at which the fasting occurred.
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