CALCIUM UPTAKE BY RAT KIDNEY MITOCHONDRIA
CALCIUM UPTAKE BY RAT KIDNEY MITOCHONDRIA
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.47.11.1744
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发表时间:
1961-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
ENGSTROM, GW
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作者:
DELUCA, HF;ENGSTROM, GW
Methods.-Young male rats of the Holtzman strain weighing 70-80 gm were housed irn hanging wire cages and given food and water ad libitum. The diet fed was essentially the adequate calcium and phosphorus diet of Steenbock and Herting'4 except that vitamin-free casein plus 0.2 per cent L-cystine replaced egg white as the protein source. In each experiment, the rats were divided into two equal groups. One group received no vitamin D, while in the remaining group each rat received 75 iu of crystalline calciferol in cottonseed oil every three days. Retarded growth and reduced serum calcium were evident in the vitamin-D deficient group.'4 After the rats had been on their respective diets for at least 21 days, pairs of vitamin-D deficient and supplemented rats were killed by asharp blow on the head followed by decapitation. The kidneys were removed quickly and chilled in ice-cold isotonic sucrose. A 10 per cent homogenate of the kidneys was prepared at 00C with a Potter-Elvehjem homogenizer fitted with a Teflon pestle. Ten ml of homogenate was layered over 10 ml of 0.34 M sucrose and centrifuged at 600 X g for 10 min to remove nuclei, debris, and unbroken cells. The upper layer was removed carefully and centrifuged at 8.000 X g for 10 min to sediment the mitochondria. This preparation was washed once with 0.25 M sucrose and finally suspended in 5 ml of the isotonic sucrose. Unless otherwise indi-cated, 0.5 ml of this suspensionwas incubated at 300C in a mixture which contained 0.08, umoles cytochrome c; 6, umoles ATP; 45, umoles succinate or 15, umoles glutamate; 10 jumoles MgCl2; 0.9, umoles CaC12 containing Ca4; and either 40 Mumoles Tris buffer, pH 7.4, or 40, umoles phosphate buffer, pH 7.4; 40, umoles KC1 and 300, umoles sucrose in a final volume of 3.2 ml. Mixtures were incubated in a Dubnoff-type shaker with air as the gasphase. Aliquots of the reaction mixture were removed, chilled to 00C and immediately centrifuged at 20,000 X g for 7-10 minutes. The supernatant was decanted and, when desired, analyzed for calcium by a modification of an ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) titration method'5 or counted for radioactivity. To measure the radioactivity of the precipitate, the centrifuge cup was drained and wiped dry with tissue paper; the pellet was dissolved in dilute nitric acid and digested or it was dissolved in 0.2 per cent sodium lauryl sulfate, plated on stainless steel planchets, and counted as infinitely thin samples. Measurements of radioactivitywere made in the Geiger region with a thin end-window automatic counting device. A sample of each mitochondrial preparation was analyzed routinely for nitrogen by Nesslerization.'6When ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) preparations were made, kidneys were homogenized in 0.25 M sucrose containing 0.001 M sodium EDTA. The isolation was as described previously except that the mitochondria were washed once with the 0.25 M sucrose containing EDTA and then washed in sucrose free of EDTA. The preparations were suspended in isotonic sucrose free of EDTA andused as described previously.