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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (January 6, 2006). doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00683.2005
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Submitted on June 23, 2005
Accepted on December 12, 2005

REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES, BUT NOT Ca2+, TRIGGER pH- AND MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY TRANSITION-DEPENDENT DEATH OF ADULT RAT MYOCYTES AFTER ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION

Jae-Sung Kim1, Yingai Jin1, and John J Lemasters1*

1 Cell & Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lemaster{at}med.unc.edu.

We investigated the role of pH, reactive oxygen species (ROS), Ca2+ and the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) in pH-dependent ischemia/reperfusion injury to adult rat myocytes. Myocytes were incubated in anoxic Krebs-Ringer-HEPES buffer at pH 6.2 for 3 h to simulate ischemia. To simulate reperfusion, myocytes were reoxygenated at pH 6.2 or 7.4 for 2 h. Some myocytes were treated with MPT blockers (cyclosporin A, N-methyl-4-isoleucine cyclosporin) and antioxidants (desferal, diphenylphenylene diamine, 2-mercaptopropionyl glycine). Mitochondrial membrane potential, inner membrane permeabilization and ROS formation were imaged with tetramethylrhodamine methylester, calcein and chloromethyldichlorofluorescin diacetate, respectively. For Ca2+ imaging, myocytes were co-loaded with Rhod-2 and Fluo-4 to evaluate mitochondrial and cytosolic Ca2+, respectively. After 10 min of reperfusion at pH 7.4, calcein redistributed across the mitochondrial inner membrane, an event preceded by mitochondrial ROS formation and accompanied by hypercontracture, mitochondrial depolarization and then cell death. Acidotic reperfusion, antioxidants and MPT blockers each prevented the MPT, depolarization, hypercontraction and cell killing. Antioxidants, but neither MPT blockers nor acidotic reperfusion, inhibited ROS formation after reperfusion. Furthermore, anoxic reperfusion at pH 7.4 prevented cell death. Both mitochondrial and cytosolic Ca2+ increased during ischemia but recovered in the first minutes of reperfusion. Mitochondrial and cytosolic Ca2+ overloading again occurred late after reperfusion. This late Ca2+overloading was blocked by MPT inhibition. Intramitochondrial Ca2+ chelation by cold loading/warm incubation of BAPTA did not prevent cell death after reperfusion. In conclusion, mitochondrial ROS together with normalization of pH promotes MPT onset and subsequent myocyte death after reperfusion. In contrast, Ca2+ overloading appears to be the consequence of bioenergetic failure after the MPT and is not a factor promoting MPT onset.




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