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Isolation of Primary Mouse Hepatocytes for Nascent Protein Synthesis Analysis by Non-radioactive L-azidohomoalanine Labeling Method
Published on: October 23, 2018
Thyroid thermogenesis: minimal contribution of energy requirement for protein synthesis
Abstract:
Cycloheximide (5.0 mug/ml) had no significant effect on respiration of liver slices prepared from euthyroid rats (i.e., QO2 of 15.5 +/- 0.8 vs. 14.9 +/- 0.8 mul/mg protein) despite an 83.8 +/- 2.1% inhibition of protein synthesis as judged by [3H]leucine incorporation into the trichloroacetic acid precipitable fraction. Injection of triiodothyronine increased the QO2 of rat liver slices to 22.6 +/- 1.1 mul/h/mg protein. The QO2 of hyperthyroid slices remained high in the presence of cycloheximide although protein synthesis was inhibited by 84.4 +/- 2.0%. These results imply that the energy requirement for protein synthesis contributes little to QO2 of euthyroid liver and does not account for a significant fraction of the increase in hepatic QO2 obtained in the transition from the euthyroid to the hyperthyroid state.
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