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No differences in oxidative phosphorylation or in the per cent of [4-14C]progesterone were found in ovarian mitochondria of immature rats after treatment with 20 IU of pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) iv 30 min before killing. However, treatment of immature rats with 20 IU of PMSG sc 54 h prior to killing decreased the ADP:O ratio and increased the per cent of [4-14C]cholesterol conversion. Electron microscopic studies showed that mitochondria with lamellar cristae were prominent in ovaries of untreated rats, while large pleomorphic mitochondria and mitochondria with tubulovesicular cristae dominated in ovaries of PMSG-treated rats. Ovarian homogenates separated by zonal centrifugation showed three peaks od cytochrome oxidase activity which shifted to the heavier end of the gradient after PMSG treatment. These studies suggest that PMSG treatment influences ovarian mitochondria, possibly by stimulating the synthesis of additional functional components and/or the biogenesis of new mitochondria. Aminoglutethimide addition to bovine luteal mitochondria decreased steroidogenesis by 60% when succinate was used as substrate. However, there was a 16% increase in the ADP:O ratio, apparently due to a decrease in oxygen utilization. When oligomycin was added to luteal mitochondria, there was a 30% decrease in the ACP:O ratio but a 300% increase in [4-14C]cholesterol conversion. Dinitrophenol also decreased mitochondrial steroidogenesis. These results suggest that energy obtained from succinate oxidation can be diverted from phosphorylation to support steroidogenesis.
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PMID:Studies on oxidative phosphorylation and steroidogenesis by ovarian mitochondria after gonadotropic stimulation. 18 55

A rate of endogenous respiration in mitochondria of rabbit brain visual system (visual cortex, forebrain) was higher under conditions of light deprivation (from birth up to 2.5 month) as compared with the mitochondria of control animals. The mitochondria of experimental rabbits were characterized by distinct alteration in oxidative phosphorylation of glutamic acid, by an increased rate of electron transport at the step between cytochrome c-cytochrome oxidase-succinate dehydrogenase of the respiratory chain as well as by the peculiar effect of rothenone and DNP on the chain. All the patterns studied approached the control value within the period of restoration of light impulsation. Nonlinear type of the regenerating processes was observed. Role of specific impulsation and compensatory reactions in the age-dependent development of energy processes in brain mitochondria is discussed.
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PMID:[Mitochondrial energy processes of the visual system in the rabbit brain normally and under conditions of light deprivation]. 49 32

The present work is a continuation of our studies on mitochondrial functions and enzyme activities after acute exhaustive swimming in liver and myocardium. In rat heart mitochondria the activities of SDH, cytochrome oxidase and ATPase (DNP-stimulated) increase after swimming and remain at that level until the end of the 22-hour rest period studied. The enzyme complexes--rotenone-sensitive NAD. H-cytochrome c-reductase and succinate-cytochrome c-reductase--decrease their activities in both experimental groups. The reduced activity of these two enzymes is determined by changes in this part of the respiratory chain which occur after the incorporation of DCPIP in the oxidation-reduction processes. The marker enzyme of the outer mitochondrial membranes--rotenone-insensitive NAD.H-cytochrome c-reductase--reveals unchanged activity after swimming and a 22-hour period of rest. The different changes in the activities of enzymes with different localization and organization in heart mitochondria are explained by disorganization of the inner membranes after exhaustive swimming, which could induce both activation of some enzymes and inhibition of others. The effect of certain factors during muscle exercise which could cause the established structural and functional changes in the mitochondria is discussed.
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PMID:Effect of single exhaustive swimming on mitochondrial enzyme activities in rat myocardium. 61 30

In vivo administration of L-thyroxine (L-T4) in Anabas testudineus, while significantly stimulated the activities of cytochrome c oxidase and alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (alpha-GPDH), inhibited glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH), cytosolic and mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase (cyt. MDH; mit. MDH), and Mg2+ DNP-dependent adenosine triphosphatase (Mg2+ ATPase) activities. The activities of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), and catalase remained unaltered after L-T4 treatment. Administration of protein synthesis inhibitors such as actinomycin D, while significantly inhibited cytochrome oxidase, alpha-GPDH, catalase, SDH, and Mg2+ ATPase activities, did not change LDH, cyt. MDH, and mit. MDH activities. Chloramphenicol injection significantly stimulated cytochrome oxidase, alpha-GPDH, and G-6-PDH activities. Simultaneous injections of actinomycin D or chloramphenicol with 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine (L-T3) or L-T4 prevented the effects of thyroid hormones on enzyme activities, when compared to the respective controls.
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PMID:Oxidative metabolism in a teleost, Anabas testudineus Bloch: effect of thyroid hormones on hepatic enzyme activities. 292 Sep 3

Aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, G2, and M1 have been evaluated for activity toward cytochrome oxidase in isolated rat liver mitochondria employing ferrocytochrome c and p-phenylene diamine as reductants. The aflatoxins inhibited the cytochrome oxidase activity to a greater extent when monitored by O2 uptake measurements than by substrate oxidation. AFG2 and AFM1 were the most potent (50-70%). Using oligomycin and 2,4-DNP as respiratory inhibitor and uncoupler, respectively, the aflatoxins appear to inhibit e- rather than energy transfer reactions. These toxins did not uncouple cytochrome oxidase activity.
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PMID:Aflatoxin inhibition of rat liver mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase activity. 301 58

The ATP/ADP-antiporter inhibitors and ADP decrease the palmitate-induced stimulation of the mitochondrial respiration in the controlled state. The degree of inhibition decreases in the order: carboxyatractylate greater than bongkrekic acid, palmitoyl-CoA, ADP greater than atractylate. GDP is ineffective. The inhibiting concentration of carboxyatractylate coincides with this arresting the state 3 respiration. Carboxyatractylate inhibition decreases when the palmitate concentration increases. Stimulation of controlled respiration by FCCP or gramicidin D at any concentration of these uncouplers is carboxyatractylate-resistant, whereas that by low concentrations of DNP is partially suppressed by carboxyatractylate. These data together with observations that palmitate does not increase H+ conductance in bilayer phospholipid membranes and in cytochrome oxidase-asolectin proteoliposomes indicate that the ATP/ADP-antiporter is somehow involved in the uncoupling by low concentrations of fatty acids (or DNP), whereas that by FCCP and gramicidin D is due to their effect on the phospholipid bilayer. It is suggested that the antiporter facilitates translocation of palmitate anion across the mitochondrial membrane.
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PMID:Carboxyatractylate inhibits the uncoupling effect of free fatty acids. 333 58

O2 uptake by the perfused liver decreased at O2 concentrations considerably higher than levels that caused NADH reduction when the input O2 concentration was varied. The maximal rate of O2 uptake was two- to threefold higher in periportal (137 +/- 8 mumol . g-1 . h-1; O2 concentration = 478 +/- 37 microM) than pericentral regions (59 +/- 5 mumol . g-1 . h-1; O2 concentration = 263 +/- 21 microM); however, the O2 concentration required for half-maximal O2 uptake was similar (approximately 20 microM) in the two areas. The infusion of atractyloside, antimycin A, or KCN inhibited O2 uptake in both zones by 50-85%, indicating that O2 uptake in both regions was largely dependent on mitochondrial electron transport. The content of ATP and ADP and ATP:ADP were similar in microdissected samples from periportal and pericentral areas. In contrast, when livers were perfused in the retrograde direction, O2 uptake was two- to threefold greater in pericentral than in periportal regions. Maximal rates of O2 uptake correlated with the local O2 concentration irrespective of the direction of flow when the electrode was moved across the liver lobule with a micromanipulator. Lower rates of O2 uptake in pericentral areas were not altered appreciably by infusion of agents known to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation (DNP), increase ADP supply (fructose), or increase the NADH redox state (ethanol or octanoate). These data are consistent with the hypothesis that maximal rates of O2 uptake are regulated, in part, in the perfused liver by O2 concentrations far above the Km of cytochrome oxidase for O2.
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PMID:O2 uptake in periportal and pericentral regions of liver lobule in perfused liver. 371 41

Impairment of mitochondrial respiration in acute myocardial ischemia was studied in the inner and outer layers of canine heart muscle by the determination of oxidative phosphorylation and several respiratory enzymatic activities of isolated mitochondria. As early as 15 min after coronary ligation, the respiratory control ratio decreased as the result of a reduction in the oxygen consumption rate in state 3 to 72% of the control ratio in the inner layer. However, in the outer layer, it dropped to 74% after 1 to 2 hours. The oxygen consumption rate in state 4 and the ADP/O ratio were not significantly altered in both cardiac sublayers. In parallel with a decrease in oxygen consumption rate in state 3, Mg++-dependent ATPase and DNP-stimulated ATPase activities of isolated mitochondria reduced significantly in both sublayers, followed by a sequential increase in Mg++-dependent ATPase activity. Succinate dehydrogenase activity increased in ischemia for 3 hours in the inner layer, and for 6 hours in the outer layer, respectively; cytochrome oxidase activity reduced in both sublayers during the same period. Mitochondrial respiration is impaired in acute myocardial ischemia much earlier in the inner layer by a decrease in oxygen consumption rate in state 3, and there is a chronological delay in the development of ischemic mitochondrial changes in the outer myocardium.
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PMID:Regional changes in mitochondrial respiration in acute myocardial ischemia. Comparison of the inner and outer heart muscles. 609 79

The influence of the fungicidic compound beta-thujaplicin (beta-isopropyl-tropolone) on the energy transformation processes of oxidative phosphorylation was investigated in isolated rat liver mitochondria with succinate (plus rotenone) as substrate. To elucidate the observed strong inhibition of active respiration by beta-thujaplicin three possibilities were assayed: the inhibition of 1) transport processes across the inner mitochondrial membrane for inorganic phosphate, adenine nucleotides, or succinate, 2) electron flux along the respiratory chain, and 3) mitochondrial ATPase. In this respect a remarkable inhibition of both Pi transport and the translocation of adenine nucleotides could not be observed. However, the effective suppression of the DNP-induced ATPase by beta-thujaplicin explains the pronounced inhibition of active respiration. An impairment of succinate transport and the measured partial inhibition of the terminal respiratory chain at the level of cytochrome oxidase contribute to the less marked inhibition of the uncoupled respiration. The ability of beta-thujaplicin to extract mitochondrial Mg++ and the prevention of the effects of beta-thujaplicin by an excess of Mg++ in the medium suggest a common mode of action of beta-thujaplicin as a lipophilic chelator of Mg++ and other divalent cations.
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PMID:The multifunctional actions of beta-thujaplicin on the oxidative energy transformations as a consequence of its lipophilic and chelating properties. 678 24

Male sex hormones [dihydrotestosterone (DTS), and testosterone] and progesterone, when added to the isolated rat liver mitochondria before or after some protonophores, lower the respiration rate and increase the delta psi level, i.e., reverse the protonophore-induced uncoupling. Such a recoupling ability shows specific structural requirements correlating with hormonal activity of steroids studied. For instance, epiandrosterone, a DTS isomer of very low hormonal activity, and deoxycorticosterone, differing from progesterone by additional OH-group and possessing quite different hormonal activity, as well as female sex hormones (estron and estradiol) show no recoupling effect. Like 6-ketocholestanol (kCh), male sex hormones and progesterone recouple mitochondria uncoupled by low concentrations of SF6847, FCCP and CCCP, but not by high concentration of these uncouplers or by any concentration of DNP, palmitate and gramicidin. In contrast to recoupling by kCh, hormonal recoupling requires addition of serum albumin and is inhibited by low concentrations of palmitate. Recoupling can also be shown on the heart and skeletal muscle mitochondria, being absent from the heart muscle submitochondrial particles, the bacterial chromatophores and the cytochrome oxidase proteoliposomes. In mitochondria it does not depend upon the oxidation substrate used (succinate or PMS + ascorbate were tested). Pronounced seasonal effect upon the DTS recoupling degree was revealed. The recoupling is maximal in January, February and from June to November, being minimal in the spring months and in December. In spring, the in vivo administration of thyroxine, di- or triiodothyronine improves the recoupling ability of DTS. 2 x 10 - 6 M. Thyroxine, when added in vitro, does not affect energy coupling if SF6847 was absent. In the presence of small amounts of SF6847, thyroxine stimulates the uncoupling in a DTS-sensitive fashion, di- and triiodothyronines being less effective. Addition of thyroxine to azide-inhibited mitochondria (oligomycin is present) stimulates respiration and normalizes the delta psi level. In this system, triiodothyronine is much less effective, whereas diiodothyronine is not effective at all. In the intact cells (thymocytes and the Krebs-II cells were tested), DTS lowers the respiration rate stimulated by low concentrations of SF6846 or FCCP. In this case, serum albumin is not required. It is suggested that recoupling effects of male sex hormones and progesterone are involved in their anabolic action just as uncoupling takes part in the catabolic activity of thyroid hormones.
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PMID:Regulation of the energy coupling in mitochondria by some steroid and thyroid hormones. 903 Feb 62


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