title: Involvement of aspartate/glutamate antiporter in uncoupling effect of fatty acids in heart mitochondria.
abstract: Earlier it was shown that fatty acid-induced uncoupling in liver mitochondria is suppressed by the substrates of the aspartate/glutamate antiporter (V. N. Samartsev, A. V. Smirnov, I. P. Zeldi, O. V. Markova, E. N. Mokhova, and V. P. Skulachev (1997) Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1319, 251-257). In this study it is shown that in heart mitochondria aspartate, glutamate, and diethyl pyrocarbonate do not affect oxygen consumption and membrane potential in the presence of laurate at pH 7.4. These compounds have a weak (versus carboxyatractylate) coupling effect at pH 7.0. This effect is manifested only in the presence of carboxyatractylate, magnesium, and phosphate in the incubation medium. It is suggested that these tissue-specific effects are due not only to the specific characteristics of aspartate/glutamate antiporter, but also to the differences in the content of endogenous metabolites in heart mitochondria.
authors.affiliation: Belozerskii Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia.
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Samartsev
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Zeldi
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Mokhova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017920:Antiporters / Q000378:metabolism*; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D001278:Atractyloside / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D004047:Diethyl Pyrocarbonate / Q000494:pharmacology; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007850:Lauric Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D008929:Mitochondria, Heart / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D014475:Uncoupling Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D017920:Antiporters; D005227:Fatty Acids; D007850:Lauric Acids; D014475:Uncoupling Agents; C030358:lauric acid; D001278:Atractyloside; D001224:Aspartic Acid; D018698:Glutamic Acid; D004047:Diethyl Pyrocarbonate; C003853:carboxyatractyloside