scholarly journals Effects of magnesium and nucleotides on the proton conductance of rat skeletal-muscle mitochondria

2000 ◽  
Vol 348 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana CADENAS ◽  
Martin D. BRAND
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Atp Synthase ◽  
Atp Synthesis ◽  
Proton Conductance ◽  
Rat Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Maximal Inhibition ◽  
Muscle Mitochondria ◽  
Mitochondrial Inner Membrane ◽  
Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria ◽  
The Matrix

During oxidative phosphorylation most of the protons pumped out to the cytosol across the mitochondrial inner membrane return to the matrix through the ATP synthase, driving ATP synthesis. However, some of them leak back to the matrix through a proton-conductance pathway in the membrane. When the ATP synthase is inhibited with oligomycin and ATP is not being synthesized, all of the respiration is used to drive the proton leak. We report here that Mg2+ inhibits the proton conductance in rat skeletal-muscle mitochondria. Addition of Mg2+ inhibited both oligomycin-inhibited respiration and the proton conductance, while removal of Mg2+ using EDTA activated these processes. The proton conductance was inhibited by more than 80% as free Mg2+ was raised from 25 nM to 220 μM. Half-maximal inhibition occurred at about 1 μM free Mg2+, which is close to the contaminating free Mg2+ concentration in our incubations in the absence of added magnesium chelators. ATP, GTP, CTP, TTP or UTP at a concentration of 1 mM increased the oligomycin-inhibited respiration rate by about 50%. However, these NTP effects were abolished by addition of 2 mM Mg2+ and any NTP-stimulated proton conductance was explained completely by chelation of endogenous free Mg2+. The corresponding nucleoside diphosphates (ADP, GDP, CDP, TDP or UDP) at 1 mM had no effect on oligomycin-inhibited respiration. We conclude that proton conductance in rat skeletal-muscle mitochondria is very sensitive to free Mg2+ concentration but is insensitive to NTPs or NDPs at 1 mM.

Proton leak induced by reactive oxygen species produced during in vitro anoxia/reoxygenation in rat skeletal muscle mitochondria

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Navet ◽  
Ange Mouithys-Mickalad ◽  
Pierre Douette ◽  
Claudine M. Sluse-Goffart ◽  
Wieslawa Jarmuszkiewicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reactive Oxygen Species ◽  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Reactive Oxygen ◽  
Proton Leak ◽  
Oxygen Species ◽  
Rat Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Muscle Mitochondria ◽  
Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria

scholarly journals Energization-dependent endogenous activation of proton conductance in skeletal muscle mitochondria

2008 ◽  
Vol 412 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadeene Parker ◽  
Charles Affourtit ◽  
Antonio Vidal-Puig ◽  
Martin D. Brand
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Knockout Mice ◽  
Adenine Nucleotide ◽  
Specific Inhibitor ◽  
Adenine Nucleotide Translocase ◽  
Protonmotive Force ◽  
Proton Conductance ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Muscle Mitochondria ◽  
Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria

Leak of protons into the mitochondrial matrix during substrate oxidation partially uncouples electron transport from phosphorylation of ADP, but the functions and source of basal and inducible proton leak in vivo remain controversial. In the present study we describe an endogenous activation of proton conductance in mitochondria isolated from rat and mouse skeletal muscle following addition of respiratory substrate. This endogenous activation increased with time, required a high membrane potential and was diminished by high concentrations of serum albumin. Inhibition of this endogenous activation by GDP [classically considered specific for UCPs (uncoupling proteins)], carboxyatractylate and bongkrekate (considered specific for the adenine nucleotide translocase) was examined in skeletal muscle mitochondria from wild-type and Ucp3-knockout mice. Proton conductance through endogenously activated UCP3 was calculated as the difference in leak between mitochondria from wild-type and Ucp3-knockout mice, and was found to be inhibited by carboxyatractylate and bongkrekate, but not GDP. Proton conductance in mitochondria from Ucp3-knockout mice was strongly inhibited by carboxyatractylate, bongkrekate and partially by GDP. We conclude the following: (i) at high protonmotive force, an endogenously generated activator stimulates proton conductance catalysed partly by UCP3 and partly by the adenine nucleotide translocase; (ii) GDP is not a specific inhibitor of UCP3, but also inhibits proton translocation by the adenine nucleotide translocase; and (iii) the inhibition of UCP3 by carboxyatractylate and bongkrekate is likely to be indirect, acting through the adenine nucleotide translocase.

Artifactual uncoupling by uncoupling protein 3 in yeast mitochondria at the concentrations found in mouse and rat skeletal-muscle mitochondria

2001 ◽  
Vol 361 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. HARPER ◽  
Jeff A. STUART ◽  
Mika B. JEKABSONS ◽  
Damien ROUSSEL ◽  
Kevin M. BRINDLE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Uncoupling Protein ◽  
Mitochondrial Protein ◽  
Yeast Mitochondria ◽  
Rat Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Muscle Mitochondria ◽  
Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria ◽  
Uncoupling Protein 3 ◽  
Brown Adipose

Western blots detected uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) in skeletal-muscle mitochondria from wild-type but not UCP3 knock-out mice. Calibration with purified recombinant UCP3 showed that mouse and rat skeletal muscle contained 0.14μg of UCP3/mg of mitochondrial protein. This very low UCP3 content is 200–700-fold less than the concentration of UCP1 in brown-adipose-tissue mitochondria from warm-adapted hamster (24–84μg of UCP1/mg of mitochondrial protein). UCP3 was present in brown-adipose-tissue mitochondria from warm-adapted rats but was undetectable in rat heart mitochondria. We expressed human UCP3 in yeast mitochondria at levels similar to, double and 7-fold those found in rodent skeletal-muscle mitochondria. Yeast mitochondria containing UCP3 were more uncoupled than empty-vector controls, particularly at concentrations that were 7-fold physiological. However, uncoupling by UCP3 was not stimulated by the known activators palmitate and superoxide; neither were they inhibited by GDP, suggesting that the observed uncoupling was a property of non-native protein. As a control, UCP1 was expressed in yeast mitochondria at similar concentrations to that of UCP3 and at up to 50% of the physiological level of UCP1. Low levels of UCP1 gave palmitate-dependent and GDP-sensitive proton conductance but higher levels of UCP1 caused an additional GDP-insensitive uncoupling artifact. We conclude that the uncoupling of yeast mitochondria by high levels of UCP3 expression is entirely an artifact and provides no evidence for any native uncoupling activity of the protein.

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