scholarly journals ULTRASTRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN MITOCHONDRIA ISOLATED FROM KIDNEYS OF NORMAL AND LEAD-INTOXICATED RATS

1969 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Goyer ◽  
R. Krall
Keyword(s):  
Rat Kidney ◽  
Normal Liver ◽  
Adenosine Diphosphate ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Acceptor State ◽  
Kidney Mitochondria ◽  
Normal Rat ◽  
Abnormal Mitochondria ◽  
Ultrastructural Transformation ◽  
Stimulation Of

Mitochondria isolated from kidneys of lead-intoxicated rats have been shown to have decreased oxidative and phosphorylative abilities. The purpose of this study was to determine whether these abnormal mitochondria would undergo ultrastructural transformation during controlled respiration in the absence of phosphate acceptor (State IV), as previously demonstrated for normal liver mitochondria. It was first shown that normal rat kidney mitochondria transforms from a condensed ultrastructural conformation to an orthodox conformation after 5 min of State IV respiration with pyruvate-malate substrate. Reversal to a condensed conformation follows stimulation of respiration with adenosine diphosphate (ADP). A large portion of kidney mitochondria from lead-poisoned rats do not change from condensed to orthodox conformation during State IV respiration. Other mitochondria do transform to the orthodox form but they rapidly degenerate. State IV respiration decreases as these few orthodox mitochondria disintegrate. The conclusion is that those mitochondria that do not undergo change in ultrastructure have impairment of electron transport, and that those that do become orthodox have increased membrane lability and undergo degeneration.

scholarly journals Two forms of aspartate aminotransferase in rat liver and kidney mitochondria

1968 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Bhargava ◽  
A. Sreenivasan
Keyword(s):  
Rat Liver ◽  
Aspartate Aminotransferase ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Rat Kidney ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Supernatant Fraction ◽  
Rat Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Aminotransferase Activity ◽  
Kidney Mitochondria ◽  
Liver And Kidney

1. Butan-1-ol solubilizes that portion of rat liver mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1) that cannot be solubilized by ultrasonics and other treatments. 2. A difference in electrophoretic mobilities, chromatographic behaviour and solubility characteristics between the enzymes solubilized by ultrasonic treatment and by butan-1-ol was observed, suggesting the occurrence of two forms of this enzyme in rat liver mitochondria. 3. Half the aspartate aminotransferase activity of rat kidney homogenate was present in a high-speed supernatant fraction, the remainder being in the mitochondria. 4. A considerable increase in aspartate aminotransferase activity was observed when kidney mitochondrial suspensions were treated with ultrasonics or detergents. 5. All the activity after maximum activation was recoverable in the supernatant after centrifugation at 105000g for 1hr. 6. The electrophoretic mobility of the kidney mitochondrial enzyme was cathodic and that of the supernatant enzyme anodic. 7. Cortisone administration increased the activities of both mitochondrial and supernatant aspartate aminotransferases of liver, but only that of the supernatant enzyme of kidney.

scholarly journals l-Alanine–glyoxylate aminotransferase II of rat kidney and liver mitochondria possesses cysteine S-conjugate β-lyase activity: a contributing factor to the nephrotoxicity/hepatotoxicity of halogenated alkenes?

2003 ◽  
Vol 376 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur J. L. COOPER ◽  
Boris F. KRASNIKOV ◽  
Etsuo OKUNO ◽  
Thomas M. JEITNER
Keyword(s):  
Rat Kidney ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Kidney Mitochondria ◽  
Halogenated Alkenes ◽  
Lysine Residues ◽  
Lyase Activity ◽  
Mitochondrial Aspartate Aminotransferase ◽  
Branched Chain ◽  
Glyoxylate Aminotransferase ◽  
Branched Chain Aminotransferase

Several halogenated alkenes are metabolized in part to cysteine S-conjugates, which are mitochondrial toxicants of kidney and, to a lesser extent, other organs. Toxicity is due to cysteine S-conjugate β-lyases, which convert the cysteine S-conjugate into pyruvate, ammonia and a reactive sulphur-containing fragment. A section of the human population is exposed to halogenated alkenes. To understand the health effects of such exposure, it is important to identify cysteine S-conjugate β-lyases that contribute to mitochondrial damage. Mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase [Cooper, Bruschi, Iriarte and Martinez-Carrion (2002) Biochem. J. 368, 253–261] and mitochondrial branched-chain aminotransferase [Cooper, Bruschi, Conway and Hutson (2003) Biochem. Pharmacol. 65, 181–192] exhibit β-lyase activity toward S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-l-cysteine (the cysteine S-conjugate of trichloroethylene) and S-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl)-l-cysteine (the cysteine S-conjugate of tetrafluoroethylene). Turnover leads to eventual inactivation of these enzymes. Here we report that mitochondrial l-alanine–glyoxylate aminotransferase II, which, in the rat, is most active in kidney, catalyses cysteine S-conjugate β-lyase reactions with S-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl)-l-cysteine, S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-l-cysteine and S-(benzothiazolyl-l-cysteine); turnover leads to inactivation. Previous workers showed that the reactive-sulphur-containing fragment released from S-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl)-l-cysteine and S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-l-cysteine is toxic by acting as a thioacylating agent – particularly of lysine residues in nearby proteins. Toxicity, however, may also involve ‘self-inactivation’ of key enzymes. The present findings suggest that alanine–glyoxylate aminotransferase II may be an important factor in the well-established targeting of rat kidney mitochondria by toxic halogenated cysteine S-conjugates. Previous reports suggest that alanine–glyoxylate aminotransferase II is absent in some humans, but present in others. Alanine–glyoxylate aminotransferase II may contribute to the bioactivation (toxification) of halogenated cysteine S-conjugates in a subset of individuals exposed to halogenated alkenes.

Ammoniagenesis in kidney cortex mitochondria of the rat: role of the mitochondrial dicarboxylate anion transporter

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surinder Cheema-Dhadli ◽  
Mitchell L. Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Acidosis ◽  
Renal Cortex ◽  
Rat Kidney ◽  
Maximum Velocity ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Kidney Cortex ◽  
Chronic Metabolic Acidosis ◽  
Kidney Mitochondria ◽  
Anion Transporter

Since glutamine enters rat kidney mitochondria without exchange for an anion, the exit of its carbon skeleton must involve the dicarboxylate anion transporter (malate – inorganic phosphate) for ammoniagenesis to proceed. Therefore, this important mitochondrial anion transporter was studied in isolated renal cortex mitochondria. The phosphate concentration required for half-maximal rates of malate exit from renal cortex mitochondria of normal rats was 1.0 mM. This value was not decreased in renal cortex mitochondria from rats with chronic metabolic acidosis. The maximum velocity of the dicarboxylate transporter was not increased in renal cortex mitochondria from these acidotic rats. These kinetic parameters were similar in liver mitochondria. There was no acute activation of the dicarboxylate carrier when the incubation medium pH was lowered. Thus, there is no demonstrable activation of the dicarboxylate anion transporter in kidney cortex mitochondria of the rat with chronic metabolic acidosis. The significance of these results with respect to the regulation of renal ammoniagenesis is discussed.

Endothelin-I induces gene expression through stimulation of endothelin type a receptors in normal rat kidney cells

1995 ◽  
Vol 164 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Yumet ◽  
Michael H. Chin ◽  
Brian Carey ◽  
Kenneth J. Soprano ◽  
Kenneth E. Lipson
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Rat Kidney ◽  
Type A ◽  
Kidney Cells ◽  
Normal Rat ◽  
Stimulation Of

scholarly journals Subcellular distribution and properties of aldehyde dehydrogenase from 2-acetylaminofluorine-induced rat hepatomas

1979 ◽  
Vol 183 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Lindahl
Keyword(s):  
Aldehyde Dehydrogenase ◽  
Subcellular Distribution ◽  
Subcellular Location ◽  
Normal Liver ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Coenzyme Specificity ◽  
Normal Rat ◽  
Quantitative Changes ◽  
Liver Aldehyde Dehydrogenase

The subcellular distribution and properties of four aldehyde dehydrogenase isoenzymes (I-IV) identified in 2-acetylaminofluorene-induced rat hepatomas and three aldehyde dehydrogenases (I-III) identified in normal rat liver are compared. In normal liver, mitochondria (50%) and microsomal fraction (27%) possess the majority of the aldehyde dehydrogenase, with cytosol possessing little, if any, activity. Isoenzymes I–III can be identified in both fractions and differ from each other on the basis of substrate and coenzyme specificity, substrate Km, inhibition by disulfiram and anti-(hepatoma aldehyde dehydrogenase) sera, and/or isoelectric point. Hepatomas possess considerable cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase (20%), in addition to mitochondrial (23%) and microsomal (35%) activity. Although isoenzymes I–III are present in tumour mitochondrial and microsomal fractions, little isoenzyme I or II is found in cytosol. Of hepatoma cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase activity, 50% is a hepatoma-specific isoenzyme (IV), differing in several properties from isoenzymes I–III; the remainder of the tumour cytosolic activity is due to isoenzyme III (48%). The data indicate that the tumour-specific aldehyde dehydrogenase phenotype is explainable by qualitative and quantitative changes involving primarily cytosolic and microsomal aldehyde dehydrogenase. The qualitative change requires the derepression of a gene for an aldehyde dehydrogenase expressed in normal liver only after exposure to potentially harmful xenobiotics. The quantitative change involves both an increase in activity and a change in subcellular location of a basal normal-liver aldehyde dehydrogenase isoenzyme.

scholarly journals Cyclosporine A inhibits Ca2+-dependent stimulation of the Na+/H+ antiport in human T cells.

1986 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 457-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
P M Rosoff ◽  
G Terres
Keyword(s):  
T Cells ◽  
Protein Kinase C ◽  
T Cell ◽  
Protein Kinase ◽  
T Cell Receptor ◽  
Rat Kidney ◽  
Cell Receptor ◽  
Kinase C ◽  
Normal Rat ◽  
Stimulation Of

The cyclic undecapeptide cyclosporine A (CsA) is a potent immunosuppressive agent that inhibits the initial activation of T lymphocytes. This agent appears to be most effective in blocking the action of mitogens such as concanavalin A and the calcium ionophore A23187, which cause an influx of Ca2+, but not those that may act by alternate mechanisms. These observations suggest that CsA may block a Ca2+-dependent step in T cell activation. We have shown that stimulation of the T3-T cell receptor complex-associated Ca2+ transporter activates the Na+/H+ antiport (Rosoff, P. M., and L. C. Cantley, 1985, J. Biol. Chem., 260: 14053-14059). The tumor-promoting phorbol esters, which are co-mitogenic for T cells, activate the exchanger by a separate pathway which is mediated by protein kinase C. Both the rise in intracellular Ca2+ and intracellular pH may be necessary for the successful triggering of cellular activation. In this report we show that CsA blocks the T3-T cell receptor-stimulated, Ca2+ influx-dependent activation of Na+/H+ exchange, but not the phorbol ester-mediated pathway in a transformed human T cell line. CsA inhibited mitogen-stimulation of interleukin-2 production in a separate cell line. CsA also inhibited vasopressin stimulation of the antiporter in normal rat kidney fibroblasts, but had no effect on serum or 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate stimulation. CsA did not affect serum or vasopressin or serum stimulation of normal rat kidney cell proliferation. CsA also had no effect on lipopolysaccharide or phorbol ester stimulation of Na+/H+ exchange activity or induction of differentiation in 70Z/3 pre-B lymphocytes in which these events are initiated by the protein kinase C pathway. These data suggest that mechanisms of activation of Na+/H+ exchange that involve an elevation in cytosolic Ca2+ are blocked by CsA but that C kinase-mediated regulation is unaffected. The importance of the Na+/H+ antiport in the regulation of growth and differentiation of T cells is discussed.

Effects of 5-5'-Diphenyl-2-thiohydantoin (DPTH) and Thyroxine on the Ultrastructure and Chemical Composition of Rat Liver

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 570-571
Author(s):  
E. A. Elfont ◽  
R. B. Tobin ◽  
D. G. Colton ◽  
M. A. Mehlman
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Mode Of Action ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Rat Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Effective Inhibitor ◽  
Biochemical Effects ◽  
Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Stimulation Of

Summary5,-5'-diphenyl-2-thiohydantoin (DPTH) is an effective inhibitor of thyroxine (T4) stimulation of α-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase in rat liver mitochondria. Because this finding indicated a possible tool for future study of the mode of action of thyroxine, the ultrastructural and biochemical effects of DPTH and/or thyroxine on rat liver mere investigated.Rats were fed either standard or DPTH (0.06%) diet for 30 days before T4 (250 ug/kg/day) was injected. Injection of T4 occurred daily for 10 days prior to sacrifice. After removal of the liver and kidneys, part of the tissue was frozen at -50°C for later biocheailcal analyses, while the rest was prefixed in buffered 3.5X glutaraldehyde (390 mOs) and post-fixed in buffered 1Z OsO4 (376 mOs). Tissues were embedded in Araldlte 502 and the sections examined in a Zeiss EM 9S.Hepatocytes from hyperthyroid rats (Fig. 2) demonstrated enlarged and more numerous mitochondria than those of controls (Fig. 1). Glycogen was almost totally absent from the cytoplasm of the T4-treated rats.

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