Energy-coupling in adrenal chromaffin granules
Energy-coupling in adrenal chromaffin granules
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肾上腺嗜铬颗粒的能量耦合
DOI:
10.1016/0306-4522(76)90133-0
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发表时间:
1976
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
G. Ritchie
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作者:
C. Bashford;R. Casey;G. Radda;G. Ritchie
The membrane of bovine adrenomedullary chromaffin granules contains a number of activities associated with cellular energy metabolism. The interrelationship of these activities and their sensitivity to mitochondrial inhibitors and uncouplers were explored using a fluorescent probe. The probe, 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulphonic acid, binds to chromaffin granule membranes resulting in an enhancement of its fluorescence.Hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate by the adenosine triphosphatase of chromaffin granules produces a further time dependent increase in the fluorescence of the probe. This increase is caused by the binding of additional probe with no change in the fluorescence quantum yield of bound probe. A K+diffusion potential across the membrane of chromaffin granules induced by the ionophore valinomycin changes the fluorescence quantum yield of bound 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulphonic acid. The fluorescence of 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulphonic acid bound to chromaffin granules increases as the external pH is lowered. The change in fluorescence on addition of a mitochondrial uncoupling agent suggests that the internal pH of chromaffin granules is low.The incorporation of catecholamines by chromaffin granules and their membrane vesicles in the presence of Mg2+and adenosine triphosphate is inhibited by uncouplers and the specific transport inhibitor, reserpine. The oxidation of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) by chromaffin granules is stimulated by dopamine in the presence of Mg2+and adenosine triphosphate. Mitochondrial inhibitors antimycin A, oligomycin and KCN inhibit catecholamine incorporation by membrane vesicles prepared from chromaffin granules. They do not inhibit the adenosine triphosphatase but do inhibit the enhancement of NADH oxidation induced by dopamine in the presence of Mg2+and adenosine triphosphate. The reagent dicyclohexylcarbodiimide inhibits in parallel catecholamine uptake, the activity of chromaffin granule adenosine triphosphatase and the associated fluorescence response of 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulphonic acid.The relationships between the energy producing and the energy consuming processes in chromaffin granules and the sites of action of different types of inhibitors are discussed in terms of proton movements within or across the membrane of chromaffin granules.