The Ba2+ sensitivity of the Na+-induced Ca2+ efflux in heart mitochondria: the site of inhibitory action.
The Na+-induced Ca2+ release from rat heart mitochondria was measured in the presence of Ruthenium red. Ba2+ effectively inhibited the Na+-induced Ca2+ release. At 10 mM Na+ 50% inhibition was reached by 1.51 +/- 0.48 (S.D., n = 8) microM Ba2+ in the presence of 0.1 mg/ml albumin and by 0.87 +/- 0.25 (S.D., n = 3) microM Ba2+ without albumin. In order to inhibit, it was not required that Ba2+ ions enter the matrix. 140Ba2+ was not accumulated in the mitochondrial matrix space; further, in contrast to liver mitochondria, Ba2+ inhibition was immediate. The Na+-induced Ca2+ release was inhibited by Ba2+ non-competitively, with respect of the extramitochondrial Na+. The double inhibitor titration of the Na+-Ca2+ exchanger with Ba2+ in the presence and absence of extramitochondrial Ca2+ revealed that the exchanger possesses a common binding site for extramitochondrial Ca2+ and Ba2+, presumably the regulatory binding site of the Na+-Ca2+ exchanger, which was described by Hayat and Crompton (Biochem. J. 202 (1982) 509-518). All these observations indicate that Ba2+ acts at the cytoplasmic surface of the inner mitochondrial membrane. The inhibitory properties of Ba2+ on the Na+-dependent Ca2+ release in heart mitochondria are basically different from those found on Na+-independent Ca2+ release in liver mitochondria (Lukács, G.L. and Fonyó, A. (1985) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 809, 160-166).
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