Altering and Analyzing Glucose Metabolism in Perfused Hearts of Transgenic Mice
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Glucose metabolism plays an important role in cardiac bioenergetics that changes under various stress conditions including
hypertrophy, diabetic cardiomyopathy, and ischemia-reperfusion injury. To understand the role of glycolysis under these conditions,
we have altered several steps of the glycolytic pathway specifically in the heart. In this chapter, we describe methods used
to produce cardiac-targeted transgenic mice and procedures for measuring various glucose metabolites including glucose-6-phosphate,
fructose-6-phosphate, fructose-1,6-bisphosphate, and glycogen. Also, we describe methods for measuring glucose transport and
glycolysis in perfused mouse hearts. Using these methods, we show that mice over-expressing cardiac-specific kinase-deficient
6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase (Mykd-PFK-2) show reduced glucose transport and reduced glycolysis when
compared with control. The metabolites glucose-6-phosphate, fructose-6-phosphate, and glycogen were elevated, whereas fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
was reduced in the transgenic Mykd-PFK-2 mouse hearts.
Affiliation(s): (2) Department of Pediatrics, Diabetes Research, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Book Title: Vascular Biology Protocols
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine | Volume: 139 | Pub. Date: Dec-01-2007 | Page Range: 151-161 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-571-8_9
Subject: Molecular Medicine
Key Words: Transgenic mice - Cardiac-specific expression - Diabetes - Glycolysis - Glycolytic metabolites - Insulin sensitivity
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