TY - JOUR
T1 - Oxygen sensitivity of mitochondrial metabolic state in isolated skeletal and cardiac myocytes
AU - Richmond, Keith Neu
AU - Burnite, Steven
AU - Lynch, Ronald M.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - In striated muscle the coupling of blood flow to changes in tissue metabolism is hypothesized to be dependent in part on release of vasodilating metabolic by-products generated when mitochondrial metabolism becomes O2 limited. Cytochrome oxidase, the terminal step in oxidative phosphorylation, is half-maximally saturated at <1 mmHg PO2 in isolated mitochondria. However, blood flow is regulated at tissue PO2 of ~20 mmHg. If the affinity of mitochondrial respiration for O2 were higher in vivo than in vitro, O2 limitation of mitochondrial metabolism near mean tissue levels could occur. In the present study the PO2 at which mitochondrial metabolism becomes inhibited (critical PO2) was measured for cardiac myocytes in suspension (1.1 ± mmHg) and single cells (1.0 ± 0.22 and 1.25 ± 0.22 mmHg in cardiac myocytes and rat spinotrapezius cells, respectively). These measurements are consistent with those from isolated mitochondria, indicating that vasodilators produced when oxidative phosphorylation becomes inhibited may be important for regulating blood flow only in highly glycolytic muscles or under conditions of severe O2 limitation.
AB - In striated muscle the coupling of blood flow to changes in tissue metabolism is hypothesized to be dependent in part on release of vasodilating metabolic by-products generated when mitochondrial metabolism becomes O2 limited. Cytochrome oxidase, the terminal step in oxidative phosphorylation, is half-maximally saturated at <1 mmHg PO2 in isolated mitochondria. However, blood flow is regulated at tissue PO2 of ~20 mmHg. If the affinity of mitochondrial respiration for O2 were higher in vivo than in vitro, O2 limitation of mitochondrial metabolism near mean tissue levels could occur. In the present study the PO2 at which mitochondrial metabolism becomes inhibited (critical PO2) was measured for cardiac myocytes in suspension (1.1 ± mmHg) and single cells (1.0 ± 0.22 and 1.25 ± 0.22 mmHg in cardiac myocytes and rat spinotrapezius cells, respectively). These measurements are consistent with those from isolated mitochondria, indicating that vasodilators produced when oxidative phosphorylation becomes inhibited may be important for regulating blood flow only in highly glycolytic muscles or under conditions of severe O2 limitation.
KW - Blood flow regulation
KW - Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide fluorescence
KW - Oxidative metabolism
KW - Spectral imaging
KW - Striated muscle
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U2 - 10.1152/ajpcell.1997.273.5.c1613
DO - 10.1152/ajpcell.1997.273.5.c1613
M3 - Article
C2 - 9374647
AN - SCOPUS:0030699417
SN - 0363-6143
VL - 273
SP - C1613-C1622
JO - American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
JF - American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
IS - 5 42-5
ER -