INTRAMITOCHONDRIAL STORAGE OF STABLE AMORPHOUS CALCIUM PHOSPHATE *
INTRAMITOCHONDRIAL STORAGE OF STABLE AMORPHOUS CALCIUM PHOSPHATE *
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稳定的无定形磷酸钙的线粒体内储存 *
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
A. S. Posner
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作者:
A. S. Posner
The mitochondria of many types of cells from a variety of animal species can accumulate stable deposits of calcium phosphate that are amorphous to x-ray and electron diffraction. The appearance of amorphous granules as opposed to crystals of hydroxyapatite (HA) attracted attention, since stable biological calcium phosphates were generally found in the crystalline state. In this regard, the first mineral deposited in bone formation is in an amorphous phase, which transforms in a short time to a poorly crystallized, C0,-containing HA.' The presence of Mg and ATP is needed for the formation of intramitochondrial amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP).2 An in v i t ro , synergistic effect has been observed when Mg and ATP are used together in solution to delay the conversion of a slurry of ACP to HA., Conversion, delayed more than 10 times as long as with either ATP or Mg alone (both at the concentrations found in mitochondria), did not begin until solution ATP was undetectable. The effect of Mg is to decrease the ATP hydrolysis rate. ATP was also found to prevent HA formation from metastable calcium phosphate solutions. It was concluded that ATP stabilized ACP by poisoning heteronuclear H A growth sites and/or by poisoning the growth of embryonic HA nuclei before their critical size is reached, causing them to dissolve, thus preventing stable H A crystal formation. By regulating the Mg, ATP, and ATPase levels. the cell can store or utilize the ACP granules as the need arises. The radial distribution function (RDF) calculated from x-ray diffraction from cytoplasmic ACP of the hepatopancreas of the blue crab is similar to that of synthetic ACP, indicating that both have only short-range atomic order in the form of neutral ion clusters -9.5 A in the longest d i m e n ~ i o n . ~ In synthetic ACP the cluster composition is Ca,(PO,), and the minor differences observed in RDFs (FIGURE 1) are due to structural distortions resulting from the substitution of Mg2+ for Ca2+ in the blue crab cluster.g ATP had no effect on the ACP cluster. Past RDF work suggested that the ACP granules, seen in the electron microscope as 3001000-A spheres, consist of a random packing of the calcium phosphate ion cluster with 15%-20% water located in the interstices.6 We can postulate that Mg substitution in embryonic HA nuclei may induce so much distortion that growth is prevented, solution is induced, and HA formation is prevented.