EFFECTS OF SPERMINE ON MITOCHONDRIAL CA-2+ TRANSPORT AND THE RANGES OF EXTRAMITOCHONDRIAL CA-2+ TO WHICH THE MATRIX CA-2+-SENSITIVE DEHYDROGENASES RESPOND
EFFECTS OF SPERMINE ON MITOCHONDRIAL CA-2+ TRANSPORT AND THE RANGES OF EXTRAMITOCHONDRIAL CA-2+ TO WHICH THE MATRIX CA-2+-SENSITIVE DEHYDROGENASES RESPOND
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DOI:
10.1042/bj2640167
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发表时间:
1989-11-15
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
MCCORMACK, JG
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MCCORMACK, JG
1. Spermine has previously been reported to be an activator of mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake [Nicchitta and Williamson (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 12978-12983]. This is confirmed in the present studies on rat heart, liver and kidney mitochondria by using the activities of the Ca2+-sensitive intramitochondrial dehydrogenases (pyruvate NAD+-isocitrate and 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenases) as probes for matrix Ca2+, and also, for the heart mitochondria, by using entrapped fura-2. 2. As also found previously [Damuni, Humphreys and Reed (1984) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 124, 95-99], spermine activated extracted pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphate phosphatase. However, it was found to have no effects at all on the extracted NAD+-isocitrate or 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenases. It also had no effects on activities of the enzymes in uncoupled mitochondria. 3. Spermine clearly activated 45Ca. 4. Spermine (with effective Km values of around 0.2-0.4 mM) caused an approx. 2-3-fold decrease in the effective ranges of extramitochondrial Ca2+ in the activation of the Ca2+-sensitive matrix enzymes in coupled mitochondria from all of the tissues. The effects of spermine appeared to be largely independent of the other effectors of mitochondrial Ca2+ transport, such as Mg2+ (inhibitor of uptake) and Na+ (promoter of egress). 5. In the most physiological circumstance, coupled mitochondria incubated with Na+ and Mg2+, the presence of saturating spermine (2 mM) resulted in an effective extramitochondrial Ca2+ range for matrix enzyme activation of from about 30-50 nM up to about 800-1200 nM, with half-maximal effects around 250-400 nM-Ca2+. The implications of these findings for the regulation of matrix andextramitochondrial Ca2+ are discussed.