title: Effects of azide on gastric mucose.
abstract: Sodium azide, a classical inhibitor of cytochrome oxidase, is an effective inhibitor of gastric acid secretion in bullfrog and skate gastric mucosae at low concentrations. While a portion of the oxygen uptake in these tissues is sensitive to azide (KI less than 2 mM), there remains a large fraction (25-60%) with a KI more than 10 times this value, suggesting the presence of a second oxidase. The spectra of cytochromes c and b change with oxygen-nitrogen alternation in the presence of high azide concentrations which essentially eliminate the reactivity of cytochrome oxidase. In both species two additional components are observed in the spectra. The first has a peak at 590 nm, is not the cytochrome oxidase-CO complex, is fully reactive in the presence of azide and accounts for the asymmetry of the oxidase peak. The second is a component at 557 nm which can only be separated from cytochromes c and b by spectral deconvolution, and seems to react in a manner similar to cytochrome c. It is suggested that the 590 compound may be the alternate cytochrome oxidase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal 61760.
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Kidder
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Awayda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001386:Azides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000378:metabolism; D003573:Cytochrome b Group / Q000378:metabolism; D003574:Cytochrome c Group / Q000378:metabolism; D004555:Electric Fish / Q000378:metabolism*; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000378:metabolism; D005744:Gastric Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D011892:Rana catesbeiana / Q000378:metabolism*; D012860:Skates, Fish / Q000378:metabolism*; D019810:Sodium Azide; D013053:Spectrophotometry
chemical_list: D001386:Azides; D003573:Cytochrome b Group; D003574:Cytochrome c Group; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D019810:Sodium Azide; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV; D010100:Oxygen