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1 Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
2 Laboratory of Nutrition Chemistry, Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
3 Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; Laboratory of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tatsuya{at}kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
5'-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) has been implicated in glycogen metabolism in skeletal muscle. However, the physiological relevance of increased AMPK activity during exercise has not been fully clarified. This study was performed to determine the direct effects of acute AMPK activation on muscle glycogen regulation. For this purpose, we used an isolated rat muscle preparation and pharmacologically activated AMPK with 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-
-D-ribonucleoside (AICAR). Tetanic contraction in vitro markedly activated both the 
1 and 2 isoforms of AMPK, with a corresponding increase in the rate of 3-O-methylglucose (3MG) uptake. Incubation with AICAR elicited similar enhancement of AMPK activity and 3MG uptake in rat epitrochlearis muscle. In contrast, whereas contraction stimulated glycogen synthase (GS), AICAR treatment resulted in a decrease in GS activity. Insulin-stimulated GS activity also decreased after AICAR treatment. Whereas contraction activated glycogen phosphorylase (GP), AICAR did not alter GP activity. The muscle glycogen content decreased in response to contraction, but was unchanged by AICAR. Lactate release was markedly increased when muscles were stimulated with AICAR in buffer containing glucose, indicating that the glucose taken up into the muscle was catabolized via glycolysis. Our results suggest that AMPK does not mediate contraction-stimulated glycogen synthesis or glycogenolysis in skeletal muscle and also that acute AMPK activation leads to an increased glycolytic flux by antagonizing contraction-stimulated glycogen synthesis.
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