PATHWAY OF GLUTAMATE OXIDATION GY MITOCHONDRIA ISOLATED FROM DIFFERENT TISSUES
PATHWAY OF GLUTAMATE OXIDATION GY MITOCHONDRIA ISOLATED FROM DIFFERENT TISSUES
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10.1016/0006-3002(62)91119-8
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1962-01-01
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BORST, P
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BORST, P
1. The pathway of glutamate oxidation by mitochondria isolated from rat liver, Enrlich ascites cells, rat heart and pigeon-breast muscle has been investigated. 2. The average inhibition of glutamate oxidation by malonate was 70% with rat-liver mitochondria, 82% with ascites-cell mitochondria, 97% with rat-heart sarcosomes and more than 97% with pigeon-breast-muscle sarcosomes. Almost complete inhibition was also found by fluoride with pigeon-breast-muscle sarcosomes and by arsenite with rat-heart sarcosomes. 3. Accumulation of [alpha]-ketoglutarate during the oxidation of glutamate by rat-liver, rat-heart and ascites-cell mitochondria was negligible, the [DELTA] O/[DELTA] [alpha]-ketoglutarate being larger than 100 in nearly all experiments. 4. Glutamic dehydrogenase activity, measured spectro-photometrically, was very high in rat-liver mitochondria and moderate in ascites-cell mitochondria, while no activity could be demonstrated in rat-heart or pigeon-breast-muscle sarcosomes. The rate of glutamate formation by the KREBS[long dash]COHEN dismutation ran roughly parallel to the glutamic dehydrogenase activity. 5. During glutamate oxidation in the absence of inhibitors aspartate was formed. The average [DELTA]glutamate/[DELTA] aspartate value, determined with bacterial decarboxylases, was 1.0 for ascites-cell mitochondria and 1.1. for rat-liver, rat-heart and pigeon-breast-muscle mitochondria. 6. It is concluded that under the experimental conditions used, the predominant pathway for glutamate oxidation in the mitochondria studied is conversion to aspartate by means of glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminase followed by that part of the Krebs-cycle lying between a-ketoglutarate and oxaloacetate. In rat-heart and pigeon-breast-muscle sarcosomes the transamination pathway is the only one available for rapid glutamate oxidation.