Inversely related oscillations in the contents of cyclic GMP and the total adenine nucleotides in steady‐state perfused rat hearts
Inversely related oscillations in the contents of cyclic GMP and the total adenine nucleotides in steady‐state perfused rat hearts
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稳态灌注大鼠心脏中环鸟苷酸含量和总腺嘌呤核苷酸的负相关振荡
DOI:
10.1016/0014-5793(81)80886-1
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发表时间:
1981
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
D. Perrett
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作者:
J. Mowbray;D. J. Bates;D. Perrett
While investigating amino acid incorporation into protein in Langendorf perfused hearts we made the surprising observation that the tissue contents of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP showed very significant variations when measured at time points 20 rain apart during a 2 h perfusion period [1]. Despite these large temp oral variations in the cyclic nucleotides, the heart preparation is apparently in a steady-state for up to 2 h as judged by oxygen uptake, glucose utilization, nicotinamide nucleotide ratio, glycogen turnover, lactate turnover, alanine output [2, 3] protein-synthesis rate [1, 4], beat rate and contraction amplitude [5]. It had been suggested that cellular feedback-regulation systems might give rise to stable oscillations on which metabolic steady-states could rely [6] and moreover oscillations which appeared to be related to glycolytic oscillations had been observed in the concentrations of the adenine nucleotides and IMP in particle-free rat skeletal-muscle extracts [7]. The possibility that such oscillatory phenomena were responsible for the cyclic nucleotide variations was investigated by measuring in both hearts and perfusate all purine nucleotides, nucleosides and their degradation products at selected time points over 80 min of perfusion. Highly significant differences were found in the contents of ATP, ADP, GTP, cyclic AMP, cyclic GMP in the ATP/ADP ratio and in the sum of the adenine nucleotides at time points 10 or 20 min apart [5]. The ATP/ADP ratio and the contents of GTP and cyclic AMP showed an identical pattern of variation which was distinct from that of the total adenine nucleotide content. The very large nett increases and decreases in the total adenine nucleotides extracted could neither be explained as operation of Lowenstein's purine nucleotide cycle [7] nor as metabolism of any known nucleotide precursor, derivative or polymer and it was suggested that an unsuspected substantial storage form of purine nucleotide might exist in mammalian heart [5]. This paper reports that when hearts are sampled more frequently very regular statistically significant temporal variations in total adenine nucleotide content are discerned. Furthermore the changing adenine nucleotide content is mirrored by inverse alterations in the cyclic GMP content. Since the cyclic GMP content also appears to respond to the non-synchronous variations in total guanine nucleotide, it is argued that guanylate cyclase activity may be regulated by the level of free adenine nucleotide in the cell.