Endocrinology, Vol 110, 260-264, Copyright © 1982 by Endocrine Society

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Modulation by thyroid status of hepatic low Km phosphodiesterase

DW Morgan, O Shaheen, WG Keyes and M Heimberg

The effects of thyroid status on the activity of hepatic cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) were studied in the rat. Male rats were rendered hyperthyroid by treatment with T3 or hypothyroid by treatment with propylthiouracil. The hepatic particulate low Km PDE was solubilized, and its activity was measured at concentrations of 0.12- 1.3 microM cAMP. The Km decreased in hypothyroidism and tended to increase in hyperthyroidism with respect to individual controls. The maximal velocity (Vmax) was unaffected by changes in thyroid status. The increases in Km correlated with increasing plasma T3, whereas the Vmax did not. Concentrations of cAMP increased in the livers from hyperthyroid rats and decreased in those from hypothyroid, in comparison with euthyroid rat livers. The effects of thyroid status on various aspects of hepatic lipid metabolism reported from this laboratory may, in part, have resulted from alterations in hepatic cAMP concentrations. These alterations, may have resulted secondarily from changes in the activity of hepatic PDE by changes in the Km for cAMP with little change in the Vmax.

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