Pyruvate uptake is inhibited by valproic acid and metabolites in mitochondrial membranes

Add time:09/25/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

The pyruvate uptake rate in inverted submitochondrial vesicles prepared from rat liver was optimized and further characterized; the potential inhibitory effects of the anticonvulsive drug valproic acid or 2-n-propyl-pentanoic acid (VPA), Δ4-valproic acid or 2-n-propyl-4-pentenoic acid and the respective coenzyme A (CoA) conjugates were studied in the presence of a proton gradient. All tested VPA metabolites inhibited the pyruvate uptake, but the CoA esters were stronger inhibitors (40% and 60% inhibition, respectively, for valproyl-CoA and Δ4-valproyl-CoA, at 1 mM). At the same concentration, the specific inhibitor 2-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamate decreased the pyruvate uptake rate by 70%. The reported inhibition of the mitochondrial pyruvate uptake may explain the significant impairment of the pyruvate-driven oxidative phosphorylation induced by VPA.

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