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J Appl Physiol 70: 1201-1207, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 70, Issue 3 1201-1207, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Abnormal high-energy phosphate metabolism in human muscle phosphofructokinase deficiency

L. A. Bertocci, R. G. Haller, S. F. Lewis, J. L. Fleckenstein and R. L. Nunnally
Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235.

We studied the pattern of high-energy phosphate metabolism in five patients with phosphofructokinase deficiency (PFKD) and five healthy subjects (HS) during graded rhythmic handgrip performed for 5 min at 17, 33, 50, and 100% of maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). The range of MVC was similar in both groups. Force production was recorded, and intracellular concentrations of phosphorus compounds and pH were measured in the flexor digitorum profundus of the active forearm. At exercise intensities greater than or equal to 50% MVC, changes in concentrations of high-energy phosphate metabolites were abnormal in PFKD. During maximal effort, [ADP], calculated from the creatine kinase reaction, was 64.3 +/- 13.5 (SE) mumol/kg in PFKD vs. 25.7 +/- 4.0 in HS (P less than 0.05). Ammonia (NH3), a product of AMP deamination and an index of muscle [AMP], increased approximately twofold more in venous effluent during maximal forearm exercise in PFKD than in HS (P less than 0.05). Phosphocreatine concentration was 9.4 +/- 1.3 (SE) mmol/kg in HS and 13.0 +/- 1.7 in PFKD (P less than 0.05). Inorganic phosphate concentration was 15.8 +/- 1.4 mmol/kg in HS and 7.4 +/- 0.5 in PFKD (P less than 0.05). During strenuous exercise, PFKD patients exhibit an impairment in the rephosphorylation of ADP related to a subnormal oxidative capacity, an absence of glycolysis, and an attenuated breakdown of phosphocreatine.


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