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  • Title: The mechanism by which ethanol decreases the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate in the liver.
    Author: Van Schaftingen E, Bartrons R, Hers HG.
    Journal: Biochem J; 1984 Sep 01; 222(2):511-8. PubMed ID: 6089771.
    Abstract:
    The intragastric administration of ethanol to fed rats caused in their liver, within about 1 h, a 20-fold decrease in the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, an activation of fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase, an inactivation of phosphofructo-2-kinase but no change in the concentration of cyclic AMP. Incubation of isolated hepatocytes in the presence of ethanol caused a rapid increase in the concentration of sn-glycerol 3-phosphate and a slower and continuous decrease in the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate with no change in that of hexose 6-phosphates. There was also a relatively slow activation of fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase and inactivation of phosphofructo-2-kinase. Glycerol and acetaldehyde had effects similar to those of ethanol on the concentration of phosphoric esters in the isolated liver cells. 4-Methylpyrazole cancelled the effect of ethanol but reinforced those of acetaldehyde. High concentrations of glucose or of dihydroxyacetone caused an increase in the concentration of hexose 6-phosphates and counteracted the effect of ethanol to decrease the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate. As a rule, hexose 6-phosphates had a positive effect and sn-glycerol 3-phosphate had a negative effect on the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate in the liver, so that, at a given concentration of hexose 6-phosphates, there was an inverse relationship between the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate and that of sn-glycerol 3-phosphate. These effects could be explained by the ability of sn-glycerol 3-phosphate to inhibit phosphofructo-2-kinase and to counteract the inhibition of fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase by fructose 6-phosphate. sn-Glycerol 3-phosphate had also the property to accelerate the inactivation of phosphofructo-2-kinase by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase whereas fructose 2,6-bisphosphate had the opposite effect. The changes in the activity of phosphofructo-2-kinase and fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase appear therefore to be the result rather than the cause of the decrease in the concentration of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate.
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