"Enzyme that 'stops sugar being stored as fat' is identified by scientists"

[Joseph1990]

I want to be leaf.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...cientists.html

[RowYourBoat]

Cool read op, cant wait for IIFYM to become a reality

[DTreats]

This must be written by a feminist PC principle with thyroid problems.

[ErikTheElectric]

Goes hand in hand with the "Carb blockers" that extremely gullible people waste their money on. smh.

[Domicron]

for some reason i'm reminded of when Olestra was supposed to be the great savior by being a fat substitute that the body doesn't digest, thus not adding calories!

but then it gave people explosive diarrhea, because if it can't get digested, the body wants it out...

[desslok]

You have to believe it when they use scientific terms like "zap". What if I take nitric oxide supps with this glycerol formin enzyme. Will i explode?

[muruku]

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/20...75113.abstract


Significance

Glycerol-3-phosphate (Gro3P) lies at the crossroads of glucose, lipid, and energy metabolism in mammalian cells and is thought to participate in glycolysis or in gluconeogenesis, lipid synthesis, and Gro3P electron transfer shuttle to mitochondria. We now report a previously unidentified pathway of Gro3P metabolism in mammalian cells with the identification of Gro3P phosphatase (G3PP) that can directly hydrolyze Gro3P to glycerol. We observed that G3PP expression level controls glycolysis, lipogenesis, lipolysis, fatty acid oxidation, cellular redox, and mitochondrial energy metabolism in β-cells and hepatocytes, as well as glucose-induced insulin secretion and the response to metabolic stress in β-cells, and in gluconeogenesis in hepatocytes. G3PP is a previously unknown player in metabolic regulation and signaling and offers a potential target for cardiometabolic disorders.
Abstract

Obesity, and the associated disturbed glycerolipid/fatty acid (GL/FA) cycle, contribute to insulin resistance, islet β-cell failure, and type 2 diabetes. Flux through the GL/FA cycle is regulated by the availability of glycerol-3-phosphate (Gro3P) and fatty acyl-CoA. We describe here a mammalian Gro3P phosphatase (G3PP), which was not known to exist in mammalian cells, that can directly hydrolyze Gro3P to glycerol. We identified that mammalian phosphoglycolate phosphatase, with an uncertain function, acts in fact as a G3PP. We found that G3PP, by controlling Gro3P levels, regulates glycolysis and glucose oxidation, cellular redox and ATP production, gluconeogenesis, glycerolipid synthesis, and fatty acid oxidation in pancreatic islet β-cells and hepatocytes, and that glucose stimulated insulin secretion and the response to metabolic stress, e.g., glucolipotoxicity, in β-cells. In vivo overexpression of G3PP in rat liver lowers body weight gain and hepatic glucose production from glycerol and elevates plasma HDL levels. G3PP is expressed at various levels in different tissues, and its expression varies according to the nutritional state in some tissues. As Gro3P lies at the crossroads of glucose, lipid, and energy metabolism, control of its availability by G3PP adds a key level of metabolic regulation in mammalian cells, and G3PP offers a potential target for type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic disorders.