scholarly journals Effects of sodium and potassium ions on oxidative phosphorylation in relation to respiratory control by a cell-membrane adenosine triphosphatase

1965 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
DM Blond ◽  
R Whittam

1. A study has been made of the oxygen consumption of kidney homogenates in relation to the ADP concentration as regulated by the cell-membrane adenosine triphosphatase. Stimulation of this enzymic activity by Na(+) and K(+) caused parallel increases in oxygen consumption and ADP concentration. Similarly, inhibition with ouabain caused a parallel fall. The membrane adenosine triphosphatase concerned in active transport therefore appears to regulate respiration through its control of ADP concentration. 2. The respiration of homogenates and mitochondria was also stimulated by K(+) in a way independent of adenosine-triphosphatase activity. It was shown that K(+) facilitates oxidative phosphorylation and the respiratory response to ADP. A K(+) concentration of 25-50mm was needed for maximum oxidative phosphorylation in the presence of physiological concentration of Na(+). Na(+) counteracted K(+) in the effects on mitochondria. It is concluded that K(+) regulates cellular respiration at two structures, one directly in mitochondria, and the second indirectly through control of ADP production at the cell membrane.

1965 ◽  
Vol 209 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmundo Calva ◽  
Adela Mujica ◽  
Abdo Bisteni ◽  
Demetrio Sodi-Pallares

Myocardial infarction was produced in dogs by ligature of the anterior descending coronary artery. Sarcosomes were isolated from normal and infarcted tissue. Oxygen consumption was followed polarographically and adenosine triphosphate was measured as glucose 6-phosphate. One group of animals received a continuous infusion of glucose for 12 hr; another group received "polarizing solution" (glucose-KCl-insulin). Sarcosomes from the first had a low oxygen consumption, no respiratory control, and no oxidative phosphorylation. In contrast, the administration of glucose-KCl-insulin solution maintained practically within normal limits these functional aspects of the sarcosomes. The reversal of electrocardiographic abnormalities by the administration of the polarizing solution coincided with improvement of such biochemical functions. Anesthesia and surgical handling did not appear to modify the behavior of the sarcosomes.


1969 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Politoff ◽  
S. J. Socolar ◽  
W. R. Loewenstein

The ion permeability of the membrane junctions between Chironomus salivary gland cells is strongly depressed by treatments that are generally known to inhibit energy metabolism. These treatments include prolonged cooling at 6°–8°C, and exposure to dinitrophenol, cyanide, oligomycin, and N-ethylmaleimide. Intracellular injection of ATP appears to prevent depression of junctional permeability by dinitrophenol or to reverse it. Ouabain, azide, p-chloromercuriphenylsulfonic acid, reserpine, and acetazolamide fail to depress junctional permeability. Thus the ion permeability of the junctional membranes appears to depend on energy provided by oxidative phosphorylation. Possible energy-linked processes for maintaining junctional permeability are discussed, including processes involving transport of permeability-modifying species such as Ca++.


Biologija ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria M. Dudikova ◽  
Nina O. Vrynchanu ◽  
Valentyna I. Nosar

Derivatives of 4-(1-adamantyl)-phenol are a promising class of antimicrobials affecting the structural integrity and functions of the bacterial cell membrane. The functioning of Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory chain and related system of oxidative phosphorylation was investigated before and after treatment with a derivative of 4-(1-adamantyl)-phenol (compound KVM-97). Oxygen consumption was measured polarographically with a Clark-type oxygen electrode. KVM-97 was tested at 0.5× and 1.0× MIC (minimum inhibitory concentration). Specific substrates of the respiratory chain (either 3.0 mM glutamate with 2.0 mM malonate or 3.0 mM succinate with 5.0 μM rotenone) were used. All reactions were stimulated by addition of ADP (0.2 mmol). It was found that at tested concentrations, KVM-97 inhibited the endogenous respiration and substrate oxidation in P. aeruginosa cells. The inhibiting effect was dose-dependent and more pronounced with succinate oxidation rather than glutamate oxidation. The respiratory control index value (RCI) in compound-treated cells was in average 1.5 times lower compared to the intact cells. The decrease in the RCI was related to changing the oxygen uptake rates in state 3 and state 4, which indicate the uncoupling of respiration and oxidative phosphorylation. The data obtained showed that 4-(1-adamantyl)-phenol derivative inhibits oxygen consumption and has uncoupling effects in P. aeruginosa cells.


1997 ◽  
Vol 200 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Vökel ◽  
M K Grieshaber

Oxygen consumption, ATP production and cytochrome c oxidase activity of isolated mitochondria from body-wall tissue of Arenicola marina were measured as a function of sulphide concentration, and the effect of inhibitors of the respiratory complexes on these processes was determined. Concentrations of sulphide between 6 and 9 µmol l-1 induced oxygen consumption with a respiratory control ratio of 1.7. Production of ATP was stimulated by the addition of sulphide, reaching a maximal value of 67 nmol min-1 mg-1 protein at a sulphide concentration of 8 µmol l-1. Under these conditions, 1 mole of ATP was formed per mole of sulphide consumed. Higher concentrations of sulphide led to a decrease in ATP production until complete inhibition occurred at approximately 50 µmol l-1. The production of ATP with malate and succinate was stimulated by approximately 15 % in the presence of 4 µmol l-1 sulphide, but decreased at sulphide concentrations higher than 15­20 µmol l-1. Cytochrome c oxidase was also inhibited by sulphide, showing half-maximal inhibition at 1.5 µmol l-1 sulphide. Sulphide-induced ATP production was inhibited by antimycin, cyanide and oligomycin but not by rotenone or salicylhydroxamic acid. The present data indicate that sulphide oxidation is coupled to oxidative phosphorylation solely by electron flow through cytochrome c oxidase, whereas the alternative oxidase does not serve as a coupling site. At sulphide concentrations higher than 20 µmol l-1, oxidation of sulphide serves mainly as a detoxification process rather than as a source of energy.


1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 2529-2542 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Marcus ◽  
J. F. Manery

Metabolically active mitochondria were isolated from pigeon breast muscle in cold 0.45 M sucrose with ATP, EDTA, and tris buffer at pH 7.4. Fresh mitochondria were analyzed for sodium, potassium, nitrogen, iron, and water. They were morphologically intact and showed respiratory control, respiration being limited by the phosphate acceptor and stimulated by dinitrophenol. The respiratory rate was the same in the Warburg respirometer as that in the polarograph chamber; no effect of agitation was observed. The rates of oxygen consumption over short periods of time were 30–40 μ atoms per hour per mg N for α-keto-glutarate and glutamate, 16 for malate, and 1.3 for β-OH butyrate; except in the last case, satisfactory P/O ratios were obtained. A soluble, heat-stable muscle factor, not precipitated at 100,000 × G, stimulated respiration with each substrate but did not affect phosphorylation. From optical density measurements of muscle mitochondria they appeared to behave as moderately good osmometers; only slight swelling occurred during oxidative phosphorylation, but this increased somewhat when respiration ceased. The osmotic dead space was estimated at 60% of the mitochondrial volume. With polyvinylpyrrolidone the extraparticulate space was found to be 27.8 ± 1.8%.


1950 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 555-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. A. Clowes ◽  
A. K. Keltch ◽  
C. F. Strittmatter ◽  
C. P. Walters

1. The ability of 4,6-dinitrocresol and eight other substituted phenols to stimulate oxygen uptake and inhibit phosphorylation by a cell-free particulate system from unfertilized Arbacia eggs has been determined. Five of those agents can produce both stimulation of oxygen consumption and inhibition of phosphorylation; one inhibits both oxygen consumption and phosphorylation; and two have no effect on either oxygen consumption or phosphorylation. In every case the effects of these substituted phenols upon the cell-free particulate systems parallel those upon oxygen consumption and cleavage in the intact fertilized Arbacia eggs. 2. The data suggest that energy for cleavage of the Arbacia egg is provided at least in part by oxidative phosphorylation and that substituted phenols may block cleavage by interfering with generation and transfer of high-energy phosphate groups.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 66-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Kemp ◽  
Orlando de Castro-e-Silva ◽  
José Sebastião dos Santos ◽  
Ajith Kumar Sankarankutty ◽  
Rodrigo Borges Correa ◽  
...  

PURPOSE: The objective of the present study was to evaluate the capacity of the myocardium for energy production by the analysis of mitochondrial respiration in rats with jaundice submitted to bile duct ligature. METHODS: Sixteen male Wistar rats were divided into 2 Groups: Group SO submitted to nontherapeutic laparotomy (sham operation) and Group IC (icteric group) submitted to bile duct ligature. After 7 days, laparotomy was again performed in all animals for cardiac muscle extraction and analysis. Mitochondrial oxygen consumption was determined by stage 3 velocity and stage 4 velocity. The respiratory control ratio (RCR) was obtained by the ratio of stage 3 to stage 4 velocity. Statistical analysis was performed by the Mann-Whitney test, with the level of significance set at 5% (p<0.05). RESULTS: Statistical analysis revealed a significant drop in oxygen consumption during stage 3 mitochondrial respiration in group IC compared with SO, whereas the values obtained during stage 4 were basically identical for the two groups. Likewise, RCR values exhibited a significant reduction. CONCLUSION: The cellular respiration of the "jaundiced heart" is depressed. This was demonstrated by the reduced capacity of cardiac mitochondria to consume oxygen and synthesize ATP, supporting the idea of a latent cardiac impairment responsible for the hemodynamic decompensation occurring during cholestasis.


1966 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
JG Wit ◽  
H Van Genderen

1. Both monophenolic metabolites of 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile (2,6-dichloro-3-hydroxybenzonitrile and its 4-hydroxy analogue) added to starved yeast cells incubated with a limited quantity of glucose cause a significant rise in oxygen consumption of the cells. 2. The same compounds induce adenosine-triphosphatase activity in isolated intact rat-liver mitochondria. 3. The possible role of the hydroxylation of 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile in mammals in relation to hepatic injury is discussed.


1998 ◽  
Vol 275 (2) ◽  
pp. E197-E206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary-Ellen Harper ◽  
Shadi Monemdjou ◽  
Jon J. Ramsey ◽  
Richard Weindruch

Age-related changes in mitochondria, including decreased respiratory control ratios and altered mitochondrial inner membrane lipid composition, led us to study oxidative phosphorylation in hepatocytes from old (30 mo) and young (3 mo) male C57BL/J mice. Top-down metabolic control analysis and its extension, elasticity analysis, were used to identify changes in the control and regulation of the three blocks of reactions constituting the oxidative phosphorylation system: substrate oxidation, mitochondrial proton leak, and the ATP turnover reactions. Resting oxygen consumption of cells from old mice was 15% lower ( P < 0.05) than in young cells. This is explained entirely by a decrease in oxygen consumption supporting ATP turnover reactions. At all values of mitochondrial membrane potential assessed, the proportion of total oxygen consumption used to balance the leak was greater in the old cells than in the young cells. Metabolic control coefficients indicate a shift in control over respiration and phosphorylation away from substrate oxidation toward increased control by leak and by ATP turnover reactions. Control of the actual number of ATP molecules synthesized by mitochondria for each oxygen atom consumed by the ATP turnover and leak reactions was greater in old than in young cells, showing that efficiency in older cells is more sensitive to changes in these two blocks of reactions than in young cells.


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