Abstract
Administered 3β-hydroxyandrost-5-ene-7,17-dione (7-oxo-DHEA) is more effective than 3β-hydroxyandrost-5-en-7-one (DHEA) as an inducer of liver mitochondrialsn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and cytosolic malic enzyme in rats. Like DHEA, the 7-oxo metabolite enhances liver catalase, fatty acylCoA oxidase, cytosolicsn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, mitochondrial substrate oxidation rate, and the reconstructedsn-glycerol 3-phosphate shuttle. The mitochondrial adenine nucleotide carrier is diminished by thyroidectomy and is restored to normal activity by administering 7-oxo-DHEA. The relationship between respiratory rate and proton motive force across the mitochondrial membrane was measured in the nonphosphorylating state. When treated with increasing concentrations of respiratory inhibitors liver mitochondria from rats treated with 7-oxo-DHEA or thyroid hormones show a more rapid decline of membrane potential than do normal liver mitochondria. Thus 7-oxo-DHEA induces an increased proton leak or slip as has been reported for the thyroid hormone by M. D. Brand [(1990)Biochem. Biophys. Acta1018, 128–133]. This process may contribute to the enhanced thermogenesis caused by ergosteroids as well as by thyroid hormones.
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