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Zapata Bustos R, Coletta DK, Galons JP, Davidson LB, Langlais PR, Funk JL, Willis WT, Mandarino LJ. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and mitochondrial protein content predict insulin sensitivity and fuel selection during exercise in human skeletal muscle. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1208186. [PMID: 37485059 PMCID: PMC10361819 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1208186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
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Introduction: Many investigators have attempted to define the molecular nature of changes responsible for insulin resistance in muscle, but a molecular approach may not consider the overall physiological context of muscle. Because the energetic state of ATP (ΔGATP) could affect the rate of insulin-stimulated, energy-consuming processes, the present study was undertaken to determine whether the thermodynamic state of skeletal muscle can partially explain insulin sensitivity and fuel selection independently of molecular changes. Methods: 31P-MRS was used with glucose clamps, exercise studies, muscle biopsies and proteomics to measure insulin sensitivity, thermodynamic variables, mitochondrial protein content, and aerobic capacity in 16 volunteers. Results: After showing calibrated 31P-MRS measurements conformed to a linear electrical circuit model of muscle nonequilibrium thermodynamics, we used these measurements in multiple stepwise regression against rates of insulin-stimulated glucose disposal and fuel oxidation. Multiple linear regression analyses showed 53% of the variance in insulin sensitivity was explained by 1) VO2max (p = 0.001) and the 2) slope of the relationship of ΔGATP with the rate of oxidative phosphorylation (p = 0.007). This slope represents conductance in the linear model (functional content of mitochondria). Mitochondrial protein content from proteomics was an independent predictor of fractional fat oxidation during mild exercise (R2 = 0.55, p = 0.001). Conclusion: Higher mitochondrial functional content is related to the ability of skeletal muscle to maintain a greater ΔGATP, which may lead to faster rates of insulin-stimulated processes. Mitochondrial protein content per se can explain fractional fat oxidation during mild exercise.
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- Rocio Zapata Bustos
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Department of Physiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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Chen CL, Zhang L, Jin Z, Kasumov T, Chen YR. Mitochondrial redox regulation and myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2022; 322:C12-C23. [PMID: 34757853 PMCID: PMC8721908 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00131.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) have emerged as an important mechanism of disease and redox signaling in the cellular system. Under basal or pathological conditions, electron leakage for ROS production is primarily mediated by complexes I and III of the electron transport chain (ETC) and by the proton motive force (PMF), consisting of a membrane potential (ΔΨ) and a proton gradient (ΔpH). Several factors control redox status in mitochondria, including ROS, the PMF, oxidative posttranslational modifications (OPTM) of the ETC subunits, SOD2, and cytochrome c heme lyase (HCCS). In the mitochondrial PMF, increased ΔpH-supported backpressure due to diminishing electron transport and chemiosmosis promotes a more reductive mitochondrial physiological setting. OPTM by protein cysteine sulfonation in complex I and complex III has been shown to affect enzymatic catalysis, the proton gradient, redox status, and enzyme-mediated ROS production. Pathological conditions associated with oxidative or nitrosative stress, such as myocardial ischemia and reperfusion (I/R), increase mitochondrial ROS production and redox dysfunction via oxidative injury to complexes I and III, intensely enhancing protein cysteine sulfonation and impairing heme integrity. The physiological conditions of reductive stress induced by gains in SOD2 function normalize I/R-mediated ROS overproduction and redox dysfunction. Further insight into the cellular mechanisms by which HCCS, biogenesis of c-type cytochrome, and OPTM regulate PMF and ROS production in mitochondria will enrich our understanding of redox signal transduction and identify new therapeutic targets for cardiovascular diseases in which oxidative stress perturbs normal redox signaling.
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- Chwen-Lih Chen
- 1Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, College of Medicine,
Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio
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- 2Campus Chemical Instrument Center, Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Facility, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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- 3Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- 4Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy,
Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio
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- 1Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, College of Medicine,
Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio
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Willis W, Willis E, Kuzmiak-Glancy S, Kras K, Hudgens J, Barakati N, Stern J, Mandarino L. Oxidative phosphorylation K 0.5ADP in vitro depends on substrate oxidative capacity: Insights from a luciferase-based assay to evaluate ADP kinetic parameters. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2021; 1862:148430. [PMID: 33887230 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2021.148430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The K0.5ADP of oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) identifies the cytosolic ADP concentration which elicits one-half the maximum OxPhos rate. This kinetic parameter is commonly measured to assess mitochondrial metabolic control sensitivity. Here we describe a luciferase-based assay to evaluate the ADP kinetic parameters of mitochondrial ATP production from OxPhos, adenylate kinase (AK), and creatine kinase (CK). The high sensitivity, reproducibility, and throughput of the microplate-based assay enabled a comprehensive kinetic assessment of all three pathways in mitochondria isolated from mouse liver, kidney, heart, and skeletal muscle. Carboxyatractyloside titrations were also performed with the assay to estimate the flux control strength of the adenine nucleotide translocase (ANT) over OxPhos in human skeletal muscle mitochondria. ANT flux control coefficients were 0.91 ± 0.07, 0.83 ± 0.06, and 0.51 ± 0.07 at ADP concentrations of 6.25, 12.5, and 25 μM, respectively, an [ADP] range which spanned the K0.5ADP. The oxidative capacity of substrate combinations added to drive OxPhos was found to dramatically influence ADP kinetics in mitochondria from several tissues. In mouse skeletal muscle ten different substrate combinations elicited a 7-fold range of OxPhos Vmax, which correlated positively (R2 = 0.963) with K0.5ADP values ranging from 2.3 ± 0.2 μM to 11.9 ± 0.6 μM. We propose that substrate-enhanced capacity to generate the protonmotive force increases the OxPhos K0.5ADP because flux control at ANT increases, thus K0.5ADP rises toward the dissociation constant, KdADP, of ADP-ANT binding. The findings are discussed in the context of top-down metabolic control analysis.
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- Wayne Willis
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States.
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- College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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Willis WT, Miranda-Grandjean D, Hudgens J, Willis EA, Finlayson J, De Filippis EA, Zapata Bustos R, Langlais PR, Mielke C, Mandarino LJ. Dominant and sensitive control of oxidative flux by the ATP-ADP carrier in human skeletal muscle mitochondria: Effect of lysine acetylation. Arch Biochem Biophys 2018; 647:93-103. [PMID: 29653079 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2018.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2018] [Revised: 03/29/2018] [Accepted: 04/08/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The adenine nucleotide translocase (ANT) of the mitochondrial inner membrane exchanges ADP for ATP. Mitochondria were isolated from human vastus lateralis muscle (n = 9). Carboxyatractyloside titration of O2 consumption rate (Jo) at clamped [ADP] of 21 μM gave ANT abundance of 0.97 ± 0.14 nmol ANT/mg and a flux control coefficient of 82% ± 6%. Flux control fell to 1% ± 1% at saturating (2 mM) [ADP]. The KmADP for Jo was 32.4 ± 1.8 μM. In terms of the free (-3) ADP anion this KmADP was 12.0 ± 0.7 μM. A novel luciferase-based assay for ATP production gave KmADP of 13.1 ± 1.9 μM in the absence of ATP competition. The free anion KmADP in this case was 2.0 ± 0.3 μM. Targeted proteomic analyses showed significant acetylation of ANT Lysine23 and that ANT1 was the most abundant isoform. Acetylation of Lysine23 correlated positively with KmADP, r = 0.74, P = 0.022. The findings underscore the central role played by ANT in the control of oxidative phosphorylation, particularly at the energy phosphate levels associated with low ATP demand. As predicted by molecular dynamic modeling, ANT Lysine23 acetylation decreased the apparent affinity of ADP for ANT binding.
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- W T Willis
- University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, P.O. Box 245099, Tucson, AZ 85724-5099, USA.
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- Mayo Clinic, Division of Endocrinology, East Shea Boulevard and 134th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA.
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- Mayo Clinic, Division of Endocrinology, East Shea Boulevard and 134th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA.
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- Mayo Clinic, Division of Endocrinology, East Shea Boulevard and 134th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA.
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- University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, P.O. Box 245099, Tucson, AZ 85724-5099, USA.
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- Mayo Clinic, Division of Endocrinology, East Shea Boulevard and 134th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA.
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- University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, P.O. Box 245099, Tucson, AZ 85724-5099, USA.
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- University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, P.O. Box 245099, Tucson, AZ 85724-5099, USA.
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- Mayo Clinic, Division of Endocrinology, East Shea Boulevard and 134th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA.
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- University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, 1501 N. Campbell Avenue, P.O. Box 245099, Tucson, AZ 85724-5099, USA.
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Willis WT, Jackman MR, Messer JI, Kuzmiak-Glancy S, Glancy B. A Simple Hydraulic Analog Model of Oxidative Phosphorylation. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2017; 48:990-1000. [PMID: 26807634 DOI: 10.1249/mss.0000000000000884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is the primary source of cellular energy transduction in mammals. This energy conversion involves dozens of enzymatic reactions, energetic intermediates, and the dynamic interactions among them. With the goal of providing greater insight into the complex thermodynamics and kinetics ("thermokinetics") of mitochondrial energy transduction, a simple hydraulic analog model of oxidative phosphorylation is presented. In the hydraulic model, water tanks represent the forward and back "pressures" exerted by thermodynamic driving forces: the matrix redox potential (ΔGredox), the electrochemical potential for protons across the mitochondrial inner membrane (ΔGH), and the free energy of adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) (ΔGATP). Net water flow proceeds from tanks with higher water pressure to tanks with lower pressure through "enzyme pipes" whose diameters represent the conductances (effective activities) of the proteins that catalyze the energy transfer. These enzyme pipes include the reactions of dehydrogenase enzymes, the electron transport chain (ETC), and the combined action of ATP synthase plus the ATP-adenosine 5'-diphosphate exchanger that spans the inner membrane. In addition, reactive oxygen species production is included in the model as a leak that is driven out of the ETC pipe by high pressure (high ΔGredox) and a proton leak dependent on the ΔGH for both its driving force and the conductance of the leak pathway. Model water pressures and flows are shown to simulate thermodynamic forces and metabolic fluxes that have been experimentally observed in mammalian skeletal muscle in response to acute exercise, chronic endurance training, and reduced substrate availability, as well as account for the thermokinetic behavior of mitochondria from fast- and slow-twitch skeletal muscle and the metabolic capacitance of the creatine kinase reaction.
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- Wayne T Willis
- 1Center for Metabolic and Vascular Biology, Arizona State University at Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; 2Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; 3Exercise Science Department, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ; 4Department of Biomedical Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC; and 5Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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Kuzmiak-Glancy S, Willis WT. Skeletal Muscle Fuel Selection Occurs at the Mitochondrial Level. J Exp Biol 2014; 217:1993-2003. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.098863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Mammals exponentially increase the rate of carbohydrate oxidation as exercise intensity rises, while birds combust lipid almost exclusively while flying at high percentages of aerobic capacity. The fuel oxidized by contracting muscle depends on many factors: whole body fuel storage masses, mobilization, blood transport, cellular uptake, and substrate selection at the level of the mitochondrion. We examined the fuel preferences of mitochondria isolated from mammalian and avian locomotory muscles using two approaches. First, the influence of substrates on the kinetics of respiration (KMADP and Vmax) was evaluated. For all substrates and combinations, KMADP was generally two-fold higher in avian mitochondria. Second, fuel competition between pyruvate, glutamate, and/or palmitoyl-l-carnitine at three levels of ATP free energy was determined using the principle of mass balance and the measured rates of O2 consumption and metabolite accumulation/utilization. Avian mitochondria strongly spared pyruvate from oxidation when another substrate was available and fatty acid was the dominant substrate, regardless of energy state. Mammalian mitochondria exhibited some preference for fatty acid over pyruvate at lower flux (higher energy state), but exhibited much greater tendency to select pyruvate and glutamate when available. Studies in sonicated mitochondria revealed two-fold higher electron transport chain electron conductance in avian mitochondria. We conclude that substantial fuel selection occurs at the level of the mitochondrial matrix and that avian flight muscle mitochondria are particularly biased toward the selection of fatty acid, possibly by facilitating high β-oxidation flux by maintaining a more oxidized matrix.
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Kuzmiak S, Glancy B, Sweazea KL, Willis WT. Mitochondrial function in sparrow pectoralis muscle. J Exp Biol 2012; 215:2039-50. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.065094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Flying birds couple a high daily energy turnover with double-digit millimolar blood glucose concentrations and insulin resistance. Unlike mammalian muscle, flight muscle predominantly relies on lipid oxidation during locomotion at high fractions of aerobic capacity, and birds outlive mammals of similar body mass by a factor of three or more. Despite these intriguing functional differences, few data are available comparing fuel oxidation and free radical production in avian and mammalian skeletal muscle mitochondria. Thus we isolated mitochondria from English sparrow pectoralis and rat mixed hindlimb muscles. Maximal O2 consumption and net H2O2 release were measured in the presence of several oxidative substrate combinations. Additionally, NAD- and FAD-linked electron transport chain (ETC) capacity was examined in sonicated mitochondria. Sparrow mitochondria oxidized palmitoyl-l-carnitine 1.9-fold faster than rat mitochondria and could not oxidize glycerol-3-phosphate, while both species oxidized pyruvate, glutamate and malate–aspartate shuttle substrates at similar rates. Net H2O2 release was not significantly different between species and was highest when glycolytic substrates were oxidized. Sonicated sparrow mitochondria oxidized NADH and succinate over 1.8 times faster than rat mitochondria. The high ETC catalytic potential relative to matrix substrate dehydrogenases in sparrow mitochondria suggests a lower matrix redox potential is necessary to drive a given O2 consumption rate. This may contribute to preferential reliance on lipid oxidation, which may result in lower in vivo reactive oxygen species production in birds compared with mammals.
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- Sarah Kuzmiak
- Arizona State University, Department of Kinesiology, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- Arizona State University, Department of Kinesiology, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- Arizona State University, Department of Kinesiology, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- Arizona State University, Department of Kinesiology, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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Glancy B, Barstow T, Willis WT. Linear relation between time constant of oxygen uptake kinetics, total creatine, and mitochondrial content in vitro. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2007; 294:C79-87. [PMID: 17942641 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00138.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Following the onset of moderate aerobic exercise, the rate of oxygen consumption (J(o)) rises monoexponentially toward the new steady state with a time constant (tau) in the vicinity of 30 s. The mechanisms underlying this delay have been studied over several decades. Meyer's electrical analog model proposed the concept that the tau is given by tau = R(m) x C, where R(m) is mitochondrial resistance to energy transfer, and C is metabolic capacitance, determined primarily by the cellular total creatine pool (TCr = phosphocreatine + creatine). The purpose of this study was to evaluate in vitro the J(o) kinetics of isolated rat skeletal muscle mitochondria at various levels of TCr and mitochondrial protein. Mitochondria were incubated in a medium containing 5.0 mM ATP, TCr pools of 0-1.5 mM, excess creatine kinase, and an ATP-splitting system of glucose + hexokinase (HK). Pyruvate and malate (1 mM each) were present as oxidative substrates. J(o) was measured across time after HK was added to elicit one of two levels of J(o) (40 and 60% of state 3). At TCr levels (in mM) of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.75, and 1.5, the corresponding tau values (s, means +/- SE) were 22.2 +/- 3.0, 36.3 +/- 2.2, 65.7 +/- 4.3, 168.1 +/- 22.2, and 287.3 +/- 25.9. Thus tau increased linearly with TCr (R(2) = 0.916). Furthermore, the experimentally observed tau varied linearly and inversely with the mitochondrial protein added. These in vitro results consistently conform to the predictions of Meyer's electrical analog model.
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- Brian Glancy
- Department of Kinesiology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0404, USA
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Messer JI, Jackman MR, Willis WT. Pyruvate and citric acid cycle carbon requirements in isolated skeletal muscle mitochondria. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2003; 286:C565-72. [PMID: 14602577 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00146.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Carbohydrate depletion precipitates fatigue in skeletal muscle, but, because pyruvate provides both acetyl-CoA for mainline oxidation and anaplerotic carbon to the citric acid cycle (CAC), the mechanism remains obscure. Thus pyruvate and CAC kinetic parameters were independently quantified in mitochondria isolated from rat mixed skeletal muscle. Mitochondrial oxygen consumption rate (Jo) was measured polarographically while either pyruvate or malate was added stepwise in the presence of a saturating concentration of the other substrate. These substrate titrations were carried out across a physiological range of fixed extramitochondrial ATP free energy states (DeltaGP), established with a creatine kinase energy clamp, and also at saturating [ADP]. The apparent Km,malate for mitochondrial Jo ranged from 21 to 32 microM, and the apparent Km,pyruvate ranged from 12 to 26 microM, with both substrate Km values increasing as DeltaGP declined. Vmax for both substrates also increased as DeltaGP fell, reflecting thermodynamic control of Jo. Reported in vivo skeletal muscle [malate] are >10-fold greater than the Km,malate determined in this study. In marked contrast, the K(m,pyruvate) determined is near the [pyruvate] reported in muscle approaching exhaustion associated with glycogen depletion. When data were evaluated in the context of a linear thermodynamic force-flow (DeltaGP-Jo) relationship, the DeltaGP-Jo slope was essentially insensitive to changes in [malate] in the range observed in vivo but decreased markedly with declining [pyruvate] across the physiological range. Mitochondrial respiration is particularly sensitive to variations in [pyruvate] in the physiological range. In contrast, physiological [malate] exerts very little, if any, influence on mitochondrial pyruvate oxidation measured in vitro.
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- Jeffrey I Messer
- Exercise and Sport Research Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0404, USA
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Willis WT, Jackman MR, Bizeau ME, Pagliassotti MJ, Hazel JR. Hyperthermia impairs liver mitochondrial function in vitro. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2000; 278:R1240-6. [PMID: 10801293 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.2000.278.5.r1240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The effects of temperature on the relationships among the rates of pyruvate carboxylation, O(2) uptake (J(o)), oxidative phosphorylation (J(p)), and the free energy of ATP hydrolysis (G(p)) were studied in liver mitochondria isolated from 250-g female rats. Pyruvate carboxylation was evaluated at 37, 40, and 43 degrees C. In disrupted mitochondria, pyruvate carboxylase maximal reaction velocity increased from 37 to 43 degrees C with an apparent Q(10) of 2.25. A reduction in ATP/ADP ratio decreased enzyme activity at all three temperatures. In contrast, in intact mitochondria, increasing temperature failed to increase pyruvate carboxylation (malate + citrate accumulation) but did result in increased J(o) and decreased extramitochondrial G(p). J(p) was studied in respiring mitochondria at 37 and 43 degrees C at various fractions of state 3 respiration, elicited with a glucose + hexokinase ADP-regenerating system. The relationship between J(o) and G(p) was similar at both temperatures. However, hyperthermia (43 degrees C) reduced the J(p)/J(o) ratio, resulting in lower G(p) for a given J(p). Fluorescent measurements of membrane phospholipid polarization revealed a transition in membrane order between 40 and 43 degrees C, a finding consistent with increased membrane proton conductance. It is concluded that hyperthermia augments nonspecific proton leaking across the inner mitochondrial membrane, and the resultant degraded energy state offsets temperature stimulation of pyruvate carboxylase. As a consequence, at high temperatures approaching 43 degrees C, the pyruvate carboxylation rate of intact liver mitochondria may fail to exhibit a Q(10) effect.
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- W T Willis
- Exercise and Sport Research Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0404, USA.
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Siakotos AN, Blair PS, Savill JD, Katz ML. Altered mitochondrial function in canine ceroid-lipofuscinosis. Neurochem Res 1998; 23:983-9. [PMID: 9690741 DOI: 10.1023/a:1021036506299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL) are a group of autosomal recessively inherited neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressive dementia, neuronal atrophy, and premature death. The late infantile and juvenile types of NCL show massive accumulation of mitochondrial ATP synthase subunit c protein in both mitochondria and lysosomes. The specific accumulation of this mitochondrial protein suggests that mitochondrial function may be impaired in the NCL diseases. Therefore, a study was conducted to determine whether oxidative phosphorylation is altered in liver mitochondria from English setters with NCL, an animal model in which there is also massive accumulation of the subunit c protein. The ADP/O ratios were significantly depressed in affected and carrier dogs, suggesting that the disease mutation led to a partial uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation. On the other hand, ADP-stimulated respiration rates were higher than normal in both carriers and affected dogs. The increased respiration rates were highest in the carriers, and may reflect a compensatory response to the reduced efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation. Accompanying the increased respiration rates were elevations in mitochondrial ADP content with the elevation being greater in the carriers than in the affected dogs. This suggests that the increased respiration rates may be due, at least in part, to enhanced ADP uptake by the mitochondria. In the carriers, the enhanced respiration rate may be sufficient to offset the reduced efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation. In the affected animals, which had lower respiration rates than the carriers, the enhanced respiration rates may not be sufficient to offset the reduced efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation. Impaired mitochondrial function may therefore contribute to the disease pathology.
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- A N Siakotos
- Department of Pathology-Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202-5122, USA
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Stoner CD. An investigation of the relationships between rate and driving force in simple uncatalysed and enzyme-catalysed reactions with applications of the findings to chemiosmotic reactions. Biochem J 1992; 283 ( Pt 2):541-52. [PMID: 1533514 PMCID: PMC1131070 DOI: 10.1042/bj2830541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Both the rate and the driving force of a reaction can be expressed in terms of the concentrations of the reactants and products. Consequently, rate and driving force can be expressed as a function of each other. This has been done for a single-reactant, single-product, uncatalysed reaction and its enzyme-catalysed equivalent using the van't Hoff reaction isotherm and Haldane's generalized Michaelis-Menten rate equation, the primary objective being explanation of the exponential and sigmoidal relationships between reaction rate and delta mu H+ commonly observed in studies on chemiosmotic reactions. Acquisition of a purely thermodynamic rate vs. driving-force relationship requires recognition of the intensive and extensive variables and maintenance of the extensive variables constant. This relationship is identical for the two reactions and is hyperbolic or sigmoidal, depending on whether the equilibrium constant is smaller or larger than unity. In the case of the catalysed reaction, acquisition of the purely thermodynamic relationship requires the assumption that the enzyme be equally effective in catalysing the forward and backward reactions. If this condition is not met, the relationship is modified by the enzyme in a manner which can be determined from the ratio of the Michaelis constants of the reactant and product. Under conditions of enzyme saturation in respect to reactant+product, the rate vs. driving-force relationship is determined exclusively by the thermodynamics of the reaction and a single kinetic parameter, the magnitude of which is determined by the relative effectiveness of the enzyme in catalysing the forward and backward reactions. In view of this finding, it is pointed out that, since the catalytic components of chemiosmotic reactions appear to be saturated with respect to the reactant-product pair that is varied in experimental rate vs. delta mu H+ determinations, and that, since many complex enzymic reactions conform to the simple Michaelis-Menten equation with respect to a single reactant-product pair when the concentrations of all other reactants and products are maintained constant, one might expect to be capable of simulating the experimental relationships simply from knowledge of the thermodynamics of the reaction and the relative effectiveness of the catalytic component in catalysing the forward and backward reactions using the simple Michaelis-Menten equation. That this expectation appears to be largely correct is demonstrated with model reactions.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- C D Stoner
- Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210
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Davis EJ, Davis-van Thienen WI. An assessment of the role of proton leaks in the mechanistic stoichiometry of oxidative phosphorylation. Arch Biochem Biophys 1991; 289:184-6. [PMID: 1654845 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(91)90459-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Rat liver mitochondria were incubated in the presence of varying concentrations of ATP, followed by ADP to initiate phosphorylation. Analysis of phosphorylation to oxygen ratios (P/O) was carried out with varied initial phosphorylation potentials (or ATP/ADP ratios). Rates of phosphorylation and respiration and magnitude of membrane potential (delta psi) were measured. The results are discussed in the framework of P/total O and P/"extra" O ratios in determination of the mechanistic P/O ratio. It is concluded that the former underestimates, and the latter overestimates the mechanistic P/O ratio.
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- E J Davis
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indianapolis 46202-5122
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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 F1-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, delta G(redox) (in kJ) = -5.7 log(NAD+/NADHout)/(NAD+/NADHin) 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 delta G(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.
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- W S Kunz
- Department of Biochemistry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202-5122
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