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Comparative effects of the Roundup and glyphosate on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation.

The potential toxicity of the herbicide Roundup and its fundamental substance (glyphosate) was tested in bioenergetic functions of isolated rat liver mitochondria. Roundup stimulates succinate-supported respiration twice, with simultaneous collapse of transmembrane electrical potential, while glyphosate used in the same concentrations does not induce any significant effect. Additionally, Roundup depresses state 3 respiration by about 40%, at 15 mM, whereas uncoupled respiration in the presence of FCCP is depressed by about 50%. Depression of uncoupled respiratory activity is mediated through partial inhibition of mitochondrial complexes II and III, but not of complex IV. The phosphorylative system was affected by both a direct and an indirect effect on the F0F1 ATPase activity. The addition of uncoupled concentrations of Roundup to Ca2+-loaded mitochondria treated with Ruthenium Red resulted in non-specific membrane permeabilization, as evidenced by mitochondrial swelling in isosmotic sucrose medium. Therefore, the uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation is also related to the non-specific membrane permeabilization induced by Roundup. Glyphosate alone does not show any relevant effect on the mitochondrial bioenergetics, in opposition to Roundup formulation products. The differences in the toxicity observed could be either attributed to some products of Roundup or to a synergic effect of glyphosate and formulation products. Bearing in mind that mitochondria is provided with a variety of bioenergetic functions mandatory for the regulation of intracellular aerobic energy production and electrolyte homeostasis, these results question the safety of Roundup on animal health.

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Top-down control analysis of temperature effect on oxidative phosphorylation.

The effects of temperature on the control of respiration rate, phosphorylation rate, proton leakage rate, the protonmotive force and the effective ATP/O ratio were determined in isolated rat liver mitochondria over a range of respiratory conditions by applying top-down elasticity and control analyses. Simultaneous measurements of membrane potential, oxidation and phosphorylation rates were performed under various ATP turnover rates, ranging from state 4 to state 3. Although the activities of the three subsystems decreased with temperature (over 30-fold between 37 and 4 degrees C), the effective ATP/O ratio exhibited a maximum at 25 degrees C, far below the physiological value. Top-down elasticity analysis revealed that maximal membrane potential was maintained over the range of temperature studied, and that the proton leakage rate was considerably reduced at 4 degrees C. These results definitely rule out a possible uncoupling of mitochondria at low temperature. At 4 degrees C, the decrease in ATP/O ratio is explained by the relative decrease in phosphorylation processes revealed by the decrease in depolarization after ADP addition [Diolez and Moreau (1985) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 806, 56-63]. The change in depolarization between 37 and 25 degrees C was too small to explain the decrease in ATP/O ratio. This result is best explained by the changes in the elasticity of proton leakage to membrane potential between 37 and 25 degrees C, leading to a higher leak rate at 37 degrees C for the same value of membrane potential. Top-down control analysis showed that despite the important changes in activities of the three subsystems between 37 and 25 degrees C, the patterns of the control distribution are very similar. However, a different pattern was obtained at 4 degrees C under all phosphorylating conditions. Surprisingly, control by the proton leakage subsystem was almost unchanged, although both control patterns by substrate oxidation and phosphorylation subsystems were affected at 4 degrees C. In comparison with results for 25 and 37 degrees C, at 4 degrees C there was evidence for increased control by the phosphorylation subsystem over both fluxes of oxidation and phosphorylation as well as on the ATP/O ratio when the system is close to state 3. However, the pattern of control coefficients as a function of mitochondrial activity also showed enhanced control exerted by the substrate oxidation subsystem under all intermediate conditions. These results suggest that passive membrane permeability to protons is not involved in the effect of temperature on the control of oxidative phosphorylation.

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[Changes in oxidative phosphorylation in rat liver mitochondria during the development of cholestasis].

Kinetic patterns of oxydative phosphorylation were studied in rat liver mitochondria in dynamics of cholestasis and after addition of bile acids to mitochondria in vitro. Within the 1 and 3 days of cholestasis mitochondrial synthesis of ATP was decreased due to inhibition of ATP and ADP transport by the bile acids. At the period within 3 and 15 days uncoupling of the oxidative phosphorylation occurred; the phenomenon observed might be a result of impairment in the structure of inner mitochondrial membrane.

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The effects of methylprednisolone on oxidative phosphorylation in Concanavalin-A-stimulated thymocytes. Top-down elasticity analysis and control analysis.

The glucocorticoid methylprednisolone has clinically important anti-inflammatory effects at high concentrations through unknown mechanisms. Methylprednisolone at 0.2 mg/10(7) cells inhibits respiration in Concanavalin-A(ConA)-stimulated thymocytes from rats by about 20%. We have used top-down elasticity analysis to identify the blocks of reactions within oxidative phosphorylation in thymocytes whose kinetics are significantly affected by treatment with methylprednisolone. At this concentration methylprednisolone greatly inhibited the reactions of substrate oxidation and increased mitochondrial proton leak but did not significantly affect the synthesis and and turnover of ATP by the phosphorylating system. Metabolic control analysis showed that oxygen consumption by ConA-treated thymocytes was controlled largely (0.51) by the phosphorylating system but also by proton leak (0.32) and substrate oxidation (0.17); this is similar to the distribution of control in hepatocytes, suggesting that this pattern may be general in cells. Methylprednisolone lowered control by the phosphorylating system to 0.26 and raised control by substrate oxidation to 0.37. From these results we conclude that the inhibition of respiration in ConA-stimulated thymocytes by methylprednisolone at this concentration results from an inhibition of substrate oxidation and a smaller stimulation of mitochondrial proton leak, with only a minor contribution of any effects within the phosphorylating system.

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The influence of thyroid hormone on the degree of control of oxidative phosphorylation exerted by the adenine nucleotide translocator.

Impaired phosphorylation efficiency in liver mitochondria from hypothyroid rats is paralleled by a defect in adenine nucleotide transport. Both of these lesions can be corrected within 15 min by a near-physiological dose of triiodo-L-thyronine. Measurement of the control strength of the translocator shows, however, that this step has a smaller share of the control for oxidative phosphorylation after thyroidectomy and that this is unaltered after 15 min by replacement therapy. Rapid control by triiodothyronine is thus exerted elsewhere than at this transfer and the effects of hormone on the translocator are likely to be indirect.

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Proportional activation coefficients during stimulation of oxidative phosphorylation by lactate and pyruvate or by vasopressin.

A 'proportional activation' approach designed to deal with the influence of external effectors within biochemical systems is described. The proportional activation coefficient, which enables the quantitative determination of the relative stimulation of different parts of a system by a given effector, is defined. The proportional activation approach was used to calculate the relative activation of delta p-producing and delta p-consuming subsystems during stimulation of the respiration rate of cells by a variety of different effectors. Oxidative phosphorylation was stimulated by the addition of either lactate and pyruvate (10 mM and 1 mM) or vasopressin. The addition of lactate and pyruvate to suspensions of resting hepatocytes increased the respiration rate by about 50%. The delta p-consuming subsystem was stimulated about 60% as much as the delta p-producing subsystem. Quinolinic acid, commonly considered to be a specific inhibitor of gluconeogenesis, was found to block the delta p-producing oxidative subsystem as well as the delta p-consuming subsystem, indicating some nonspecific effects of this inhibitor. Addition of vasopressin to hepatocytes that were incubated in the presence of lactate and pyruvate resulted in an increase of the respiratory rate by up to 35%. The relative stimulation of the delta p-producing and delta p-consuming subsystems was essentially equal. Using the 'proportional activation approach' to analyse these and previously published data, it is shown that substrates (lactate/pyruvate and fatty acids), Ca(2+)-acting hormones (vasopressin and others) and calcium in muscles (heart muscle and skeletal muscle) activate both subsystems to a similar extent (it concerns especially Ca(2+)-dependent systems).

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[Effect of uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation on ATP concentration in frog striated muscle following changes in the buffer capacity of the solution].

Uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation--gramicidin D, tetrachloro-2-trifluoromethylbenzimidasole (TTFB) and carbonylcyanide-m-trichlorphenylhydrazone (CCCP)--reduced ATP concentration in muscle. An increase of the buffer capacity of solution was without effect on uncoupling action of TTFB and CCCP but increased that of gramicidin D. The results can be explained by a different mechanism of the transfer of ion carriers through the membrane. It has been shown that ATP is not directly concerned with the membrane potential.

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Respiratory effects of hexachlorocyclopentadiene on intact rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and on oxidative phosphorylation of isolated trout heart mitochondria.

Acclimated normal rainbow trout were exposed to 130 ppb hexachlorocyclopentadiene (HEX) in a flow-through well water circuit which was designed to permit measurements of oxygen consumption by the fish. Compared to preHEX values, HEX increased oxygen consumption rates by 186 +/- 24% (means +/- SEM), with maximum oxygen consumption rates being reached in approximately 84 min after HEX exposure. Oxygen consumption subsequently decreased, and all HEX-exposed fish died within 6.5 hr of exposure. Fish exposed to HEX-free vehicle (acetone) showed no changes of oxygen consumption. When added to normal isolated trout heart mitochondria, HEX appeared to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation, with calculated respiratory control ratios being decreased 50% from control values at a HEX concentration of 0.41 microM. We postulate that one important mechanism of HEX intoxication in the intact animal may be due to increased oxygen consumption and impaired oxidative ATP synthesis due to the mitochondrial uncoupling action of the toxicant.

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[Oxidative phosphorylation, NADH-oxidase and succinate oxidase activity in testicular mitochondria of rats with alloxan diabetes].

Decrease in V4P, V3 and VP, in coefficient of respiratory control, in the ratio ADP:0 as well as an increase in duration of phosphorylation of ADP involved in oxidation of succinate were found in testes mitochondria from rats with alloxan diabetes (content of glucose 20 +/- 2 mmol/L in blood plasma). If a mixture of malate and glutamate was used as a substrate of oxidation, the rate of mitochondrial respiration and coefficient of respiratory control were decreased in testes of diabetic rats under conditions of all the metabolic states studied. At the same time, sensitivity of NADH-oxidase and succinate oxidase systems to controlled heating (28 degrees) was distinctly decreased in the testes mitochondrial membranes of the impaired animals as compared with controls. The data obtained suggest that distinct functional and, apparently, structure alterations occurred in the testes mitochondrial membranes of rats with alloxan diabetes.

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[Oxidative phosphorylation and the activity of the polyenzyme systems of rat liver mitochondrial membranes in starvation].

The rate of mitochondrial phosphorylation, evaluation by coefficient of respiratory control and the ratio ADP/O, was decreased as a result of lowering in the rate of phosphorylation and DNP-stimulated oxidation, occurred in rat liver tissue under conditions of long-term starvation (5 days) as compared with control animals. In starvation rat liver mitochondria were most distinctly impaired by high temperature, phospholipase A2 and trypsin. Latent destructions, formed in mitochondrial membranes, were responsible for high lability of the organelles in starvation. In long-term starvation incorporation of exogenous cytochrome c into mitochondrial membrane was impaired also due to deterioration in structural relationship between phospholipids and protein of the membrane.

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Oxidative phosphorylation of creatine by respiring pig heart mitochondria in the absence of added adenine nucleotides.

Isolated pig heart mitochondria were found to form phosphocreatine continuously at the rate of 12.5 +/- 1.8 nmol per min per mg of the mitochondrial protein in the respiration medium without externally added adenine nucleotides, and its formation rate showed a concentration dependency with respect to creatine and phosphate. The synthesis of phosphocreatine was completely inhibited by antimycin, FCCP (carbonyl cyanide-p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone), and atractyloside. However, oligomycin had no effect on the rate of phosphocreatine formation. These results are discussed in terms of a model that heart mitochondrial creatine kinase is functionally coupled to the oxidative phosphorylating system via the action of the adenine nucleotide translocase.

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Steady-state kinetics of the overall oxidative phosphorylation reaction in heart mitochondria. Evidence for linkage of the energy-yielding and energy-consuming steps by freely diffusible intermediates and for an allosteric mechanism of respiratory control at coupling site 2.

The three coupling segments of the respiratory chain of bovine heart mitochondria were examined individually by steady-state kinetic methods to determine whether or not freely diffusible intermediates occur between the energy-yielding and energy-consuming steps involved in the oxidative phosphorylation of extramitochondrial ADP. The principal method employed was the dual inhibitor technique, for which an appropriate model is provided. The results indicate that in accordance with the chemiosmotic theory the intermediate reactants that link the energy-yielding rotenone-sensitive (Site 1), cytochrome bc1 (Site 2), and cytochrome aa3 (Site 3) reactions of the respiratory chain to the energy-consuming ATP synthetase, AdN transport, and Pi transport reactions are freely diffusible (delocalized). Site 2 was found to differ from the others in regard to the mechanism by which the energy-linked respiratory chain reaction is controlled by the energy-consuming steps. Whereas the Site 1 and Site 3 respiratory chain reactions are controlled primarily by the thermodynamic mechanism of reaction reversal, the Site 2 respiratory reaction is controlled primarily by a kinetic mechanism in which an intermediate that links it to the energy-consuming steps inhibits it allosterically. From the effects of nigericin and valinomycin the allosteric intermediate appears to be the electrical component of the protonmotive force.

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MtDNA and nuclear mutations affecting oxidative phosphorylation: correlating severity of clinical defect with extent of bioenergetic compromise.

Rates of ATP synthesis were studied in cultured skin fibroblasts treated with digitonin. In fibroblasts from patients with complex I deficiency, complex IV and complex V deficiency rates of ATP synthesis were decreased below the levels found in controls. In mitochondria isolated from cultured lymphoblasts, ATP synthesis was also decreased by 35-50% in cases of Leigh's disease due to complex I, complex IV, or complex V deficiency. Calculating the effect of the mutations in the various complexes on the overall efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation, we show that the mtDNA 8993 mutation which affects the activity of the F1F0 ATPase (complex V) has the strongest effect.

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The efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation and the rapid control by thyroid hormone of nicotinamide nucleotide reduction and transhydrogenation in intact rat liver mitochondria.

In confirmation of previous work enhancement of the fluorescence emission of reduced nicotinamide nucleotides in intact rat liver mitochondria was found to depend on incubation conditions. Under standard conditions the enhancement is constant at 4.8-fold in states 3 and 4 and is not altered by thyroidectomy of the animal 6 weeks prior to experiment. The ADP-induced (state 4----state 3----state 4) fluorescence changes are significantly different in intact mitochondria from normal and hypothyroid animals and reflect the decreased rate and efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation after thyroidectomy. Incubation of liver homogenates in vitro for 15 min with 1 microM triiodothyronine before isolating mitochondria significantly restores their ADP response towards normal. Direct addition of hormone to isolated mitochondria was ineffective. Enzymatic measurement of mitochondrial extracts shows that thyroidectomy leads to increases in the contents of NAD(H) by 22% and NADP(H) by 33%. With glutamate as substrate ADP-induced changes in the reduced/oxidized ratio of NAD+ are not significantly altered in hypothyroid preparations. By contrast the NADP+ ratio remains substantially more reduced in state 3 than it does in normal mitochondria. The hypothesis is advanced that the decreased efficiency of hypothyroid preparations in phosphorylating ADP may be the result of increased energy-linked transhydrogenase activity. This is needed to supply NADPH via the glutathione peroxidase for reducing endogenously formed peroxides. Direct reduction of mitochondrial glutathione with dithiothreitol had no substantial effect on ADP/O ratios or on ADP-induced redox cycles in either normal or thyroidectomised preparations. This decisively eliminates the possibility that lowered phosphorylation efficiency is the result of a leak of reducing equivalents via glutathione peroxidase.

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Studies on the kinetic mechanism of oxidative phosphorylation.

The kinetics of the synthesis of ATP from ADP and Pi by beef heart submitochondrial particles were examined. When Pi was the variable substrate positive cooperativity was observed, whereas if ADP was varied, linear double reciprocal plots were obtained. The analog of Pi, thiophosphate, was a noncompetitive inhibitor of ATP synthesis with respect to ADP, while the analog of ADP, AMP (CH2)P, was an uncompetitive Pi leads to ATP exchange inhibitor. The kinetics of the initial velocity isotopic exchanges of oxidative phosphorylation were also examined. When the Pi leads to ATP exchange was examined, it was found that if ADP concentration was held constant while ATP and Pi concentrations were varied at a constant ratio, linear double reciprocal plots were obtained. However, if Pi concentration was held constant and ADP and ATP concentrations were varied at constant ratio, apparent substrate inhibition was observed. The 2, 4-dinitrophenol-sensitive ADP leads to ATP exchange showed linear double reciprocal plots regardless of which components were varied. These results are interpreted to indicate that in the direction of ATP synthesis, the reaction is ordered, with Pi adding to the enzyme before ADP addition.

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Decreased expression of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA-encoded genes of oxidative phosphorylation in association neocortex in Alzheimer disease.

We recently reported 50% decreases in mRNA levels of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-encoded cytochrome oxidase (COX) subunits I and III in Alzheimer disease (AD) brains. The decreases were observed in an association neocortical region (midtemporal cortex) affected in AD, but not in the primary motor cortex unaffected in AD. To investigate whether the decreases are specific to mtDNA-encoded mRNA, we extended this analysis to nuclear DNA (nDNA)-encoded subunits of mitochondrial enzymes of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Brains from five AD patients showed 50-60% decreases in mRNA levels of nDNA-encoded subunit IV of COX and the beta-subunit of the F0F1-ATP synthase in midtemporal cortex compared with mRNA levels from midtemporal cortex of control brains. In contrast, these mRNAs were not reduced in primary motor cortices of the AD brains. The amount of nDNA-encoded beta-actin mRNA and the amount of 28S rRNA were not altered in either region of the AD brain. The results suggest that coordinated decreases in expression of mitochondrial and nuclear genes occur in association cortex of AD brains and are a consequence of reduced neuronal activity and downregulation of OXPHOS machinery.

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