FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Hepatic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene expression is not repressed by dietary carbohydrates in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) BT AF PANSERAT, Stéphane PLAGNES JUAN, E BREQUE, Jeanine KAUSHIK, Sadasivam AS 1:;2:;3:;4:; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:; C1 INRA, IFREMER, Lab Fish Nutr, F-64310 St Pee Sur Nivelle, France. C2 INRA, FRANCE SI ST PEE SUR NIVELLE SE PDG-DRV-RA-ARN IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 IF 2.478 TC 72 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2001/publication-414.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Gluconeogenesis;Nutrition;Metabolism;Glucose;Oncorhynchus mykiss;Rainbow trout;Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase AB Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) is a rate-limiting enzyme in hepatic gluconeogenesis and therefore plays a central role in glucose homeostasis. The aim of this study was to analyse the nutritional regulation of PEPCK gene expression in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), which are known to use dietary carbohydrates poorly. A full-length hepatic PEPCK cDNA (2637 base pairs with one open reading frame putatively encoding a 635-residue protein) was cloned and found to be highly homologous to mammalian PEPCKs. The presence of a putative peptide signal specific to a mitochondrial-type PEPCK in the deduced amino acid sequence suggests that this PEPCK gene codes for a mitochondrial form, In gluconeogenic tissues such as liver, kidney and intestine, this PEPCK gene was expressed at high levels and, in the liver we found no regulation of PEPCK gene expression by dietary carbohydrates. These results suggest that the first step of the hepatic gluconeogenic pathway in rainbow trout is functional and highly active irrespective of the dietary carbohydrate supply. PY 2001 SO Journal of Experimental Biology SN 0022-0949 PU Company of Biologists VL 204 IS 2 UT 000166717400018 BP 359 EP 365 ID 414 ER EF