AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 265, Issue 2 453-H460, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of cardiac work on electrical potential gradient across mitochondrial membrane in perfused rat hearts

B. Wan, C. Doumen, J. Duszynski, G. Salama, T. C. Vary and K. F. LaNoue
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey 17033.

The myocardium responds to alterations in cardiac work by changing its rate of O2 consumption. This reflects an increase in the oxidative synthesis of ATP to meet the contractile demand for ATP. However, the biochemical mechanisms responsible for increased ATP synthesis are not fully understood. To localize the flux-controlling reaction(s) in the pathway of ATP synthesis, the effects of substrates and cardiac work on mitochondrial membrane potential (delta psi m), total tissue NADH-to-NAD+ ratio, and high-energy phosphate metabolites were examined in perfused rat hearts. Delta psi m was measured using the equilibrium distribution of tetraphenylphosphonium (33). Cytosolic phosphorylation potential, total tissue NADH-to-NAD+ ratio, and delta psi m were higher in hearts perfused with pyruvate than in those perfused with glucose. Increasing cardiac work induced a four-fold increase in O2 consumption, which was accompanied by 1) decreased or unaltered cytosolic ADP concentration, 2) increased tissue NADH-to-NAD+ ratio, and 3) decreased delta psi m. The results indicate that both NADH-generating reactions and the ATP synthase-catalyzed reaction are important in causing the increase in respiration that accompanies increased work. Because the activation of ATP synthase by cardiac work occurred in the absence of increases in delta psi m, ADP, and Pi, it is possible that the work-related acceleration in ATP synthesis may be due to modification of the kinetic properties of the ATP synthase.

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