Journal article
Regulation of pyruvate metabolism and human disease
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, Vol.71(14), pp.2577-2604
07/2014
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-013-1539-2
PMCID: PMC4059968
PMID: 24363178
Abstract
Pyruvate is a keystone molecule critical for numerous aspects of eukaryotic and human metabolism. Pyruvate is the end-product of glycolysis, is derived from additional sources in the cellular cytoplasm, and is ultimately destined for transport into mitochondria as a master fuel input undergirding citric acid cycle carbon flux. In mitochondria, pyruvate drives ATP production by oxidative phosphorylation and multiple biosynthetic pathways intersecting the citric acid cycle. Mitochondrial pyruvate metabolism is regulated by many enzymes, including the recently discovered mitochondria pyruvate carrier, pyruvate dehydrogenase, and pyruvate carboxylase, to modulate overall pyruvate carbon flux. Mutations in any of the genes encoding for proteins regulating pyruvate metabolism may lead to disease. Numerous cases have been described. Aberrant pyruvate metabolism plays an especially prominent role in cancer, heart failure, and neurodegeneration. Because most major diseases involve aberrant metabolism, understanding and exploiting pyruvate carbon flux may yield novel treatments that enhance human health.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Regulation of pyruvate metabolism and human disease
- Creators
- Lawrence Gray - Department of Biochemistry, Fraternal Order of the Eagles Diabetes Research Center, and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa 51 Newton Rd, 4-403 BSB Iowa City IA 52242 USASean Tompkins - Department of Biochemistry, Fraternal Order of the Eagles Diabetes Research Center, and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa 51 Newton Rd, 4-403 BSB Iowa City IA 52242 USAEric Taylor - Department of Biochemistry, Fraternal Order of the Eagles Diabetes Research Center, and François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa 51 Newton Rd, 4-403 BSB Iowa City IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, Vol.71(14), pp.2577-2604
- Publisher
- Springer Basel; Basel
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00018-013-1539-2
- PMID
- 24363178
- PMCID
- PMC4059968
- ISSN
- 1420-682X
- eISSN
- 1420-9071
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2014
- Academic Unit
- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
- Record Identifier
- 9984025320602771
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