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Energy Metabolism is Compromised in Skeletal Muscle of Rats Chronically-Treated with Glutaric Acid

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Glutaric acidemia type I (GA I) (GA I, McKusick 23167; OMIM # 231670) is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder caused by glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (EC 1.3.99.7). Clinically, the disease is characterized by macrocephaly, hypotonia, dystonia and diskinesia. Since the pathophysiology of this disorder is not yet well established, in the present investigation we determined a number of energy metabolism parameters, namely 14CO2 production, the activities of the respiratory chain complexes I–IV and of creatine kinase, in tissues of rats chronically exposed to glutaric acid (GA). High tissue GA concentrations (0.6 mM in the brain, 4 mM in skeletal muscle and 6 mM in plasma) were induced by three daily subcutaneous injections of saline-buffered GA (5 μmol·g−1 body weight) to Wistar rats from the 5th to the 21st day of life. The parameters were assessed 12 h after the last GA injection in cerebral cortex and middle brain, as well as in skeletal muscle homogenates of GA-treated rats. GA administration significantly inhibited the activities of the respiratory chain complexes I-III and II and induced a significant increase of complex IV activity in skeletal muscle of rats. Furthermore, creatine kinase activity was also inhibited by GA treatment in skeletal muscle. In contrast, these measurements were not altered by GA administration in the brain structures studied. Taken together, it was demonstrated that chronic GA administration induced an impairment of energy metabolism in rat skeletal muscle probably due to a higher tissue concentration of this organic acid that may be possibly associated to the muscle weakness occurring in glutaric acidemic patients.

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We are grateful to the financial support of CNPq, PRONEX, FAPERGS and PROPESQ/UFRGS.

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  1. Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2600, Anexo, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Gustavo da C. Ferreira, Patrícia F. Schuck, Carolina M. Viegas, Anelise Tonin, Alexandra Latini, Carlos S. Dutra-Filho, Angela T. S. Wyse, Clóvis M. D. Wannmacher, Carmen R. Vargas & Moacir Wajner

  2. Serviço de Genética Médica, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Alexandra Latini, Carmen R. Vargas & Moacir Wajner

  3. Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Carmen R. Vargas

  4. Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, RS, Brazil

    Moacir Wajner

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Ferreira, G.d.C., Schuck, P.F., Viegas, C.M. et al. Energy Metabolism is Compromised in Skeletal Muscle of Rats Chronically-Treated with Glutaric Acid. Metab Brain Dis 22, 111–123 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11011-006-9043-0

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