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Differential modulation of glucose, lactate, and pyruvate oxidation by insulin and dichloroacetate in the rat heart

¹Center for NMR Research and Development, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, and ²Department of Physiology and Biophysics and The Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-4470

Submitted 20 December 2002 ; accepted in final form 4 March 2003

Despite the fact that lactate and pyruvate are potential substrates for energy production in vivo, our understanding of the control and regulation of carbohydrate metabolism is based principally on studies where glucose is the only available carbohydrate. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the contributions of lactate, pyruvate, and glucose to energy production in the isolated, perfused rat heart over a range of insulin concentrations and after activation of pyruvate dehydrogenase with dichloroacetate (DCA). Hearts were perfused with physiological concentrations of [1-¹³C]glucose, [U-¹³C]lactate, [2-¹³C]pyruvate, and unlabeled palmitate for 45 min. Hearts were freeze clamped, and ¹³C NMR glutamate isotopomer analysis was performed on tissue extracts. Glucose, lactate, and pyruvate all contributed significantly to myocardial energy production; however, in the absence of insulin, glucose contributed only 25–30% of total pyruvate oxidation. Even under conditions where carbohydrates represented >95% of substrate entering the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, we found that glucose contributed at most 50–60% of total carbohydrate oxidation. Despite being present at only 0.1 mM, pyruvate contributed between 10% and 30% of total acetyl-CoA entry into the TCA cycle. We also found that insulin and DCA not only increased glucose oxidation but also exogenous pyruvate oxidation; however, lactate oxidation was not increased. The differential effects of insulin and DCA on pyruvate and lactate oxidation provide further evidence for compartmentation of cardiac carbohydrate metabolism. These results may have important implications for understanding the mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of increasing cardiac carbohydrate metabolism.

substrate metabolism; carbohydrates; fatty acids

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