CONTROL OF REVERSIBLE INTRACELLULAR TRANSFER OF REDUCING POTENTIAL
CONTROL OF REVERSIBLE INTRACELLULAR TRANSFER OF REDUCING POTENTIAL
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(91)90260-p
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发表时间:
1991-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
DAVIS, EJ
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作者:
KUNZ, WS;DAVIS, EJ
Isolated rat liver mitochondria were incubated in the presence of a reconstituted malate-aspartate shuttle under carboxylating conditions in the presence of glutamate, octanoyl-carnitine and pyruvate, or a preset lactate/pyruvate ratio. The respiration and attendant energy state were varied with soluble F 1-ATPase. Under these conditions reducing equivalents are exported due to pyruvate carboxylation. This was shown by lactate production from pyruvate and by a substantial increase in the lactate/pyruvate ratio. This led to a competition between malate export and energy-driven malate cycling via the malate-aspartate shuttle, resulting in a lowered redox segregation of the NAD systems between the mitochondrial and extramitochondrial spaces. If pyruvate carboxylation was blocked, this egress of reducing equivalents was also blocked, leading to an elevated value of redox segregation, Δ G redox (in kJ)=− 5.7 log (NAD+ NADH out)/(NAD+ NADH in) being then equal to approximately one-half of the membrane potential, in accordance with electrogenic glutamate/aspartate exchange. Reconstitution of malate-pyruvate cycling led to a further kinetic decrease in the original malate-aspartate shuttle-driven value of ΔG redox. Therefore, the value of segregation of reducing potential between mitochondria and cytosol caused by glutamate/aspartate exchange can be diminished kinetically by processes exporting reducing equivalents from mitochondria, such as pyruvate carboxylation and pyruvate cycling.