Intramitochondrial phospholipase activity and the effects of Ca2+ plus N-ethylmaleimide on mitochondrial function
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Intramitochondrial phospholipase activity and the effects of Ca2+ plus N-ethylmaleimide on mitochondrial function
Abstract
Liver mitochondria treated with N-ethylmaleimide can accumulate Ca2+ but cannot retain it. Ca2+ loss following uptake occurs in parallel with a proton uptake and collapse of the membrane potential. Respiration is not activated during Ca2+ release and cannot be stimulated by uncoupler. After Ca2+ release and accompanying phenomena are nearly complete, the mitochondria undergo a large amplitude swelling. Nupercaine inhibits the premature release of Ca2+, proton uptake, decline in membrane potential, inhibition of uncoupler-stimulated respiration, and large amplitude swelling. Ruthenium red also prevents these effects. Neither Sr2+ or Mn2+ will substitute for Ca2+ to induce these effects in N-ethylmaleimide-treated mitochondria. The effects of N-ethylmaleimide plus Ca2+ on mitochondria are not accompanied by a significant alteration in the content or composition of phospholipids but are accompanied by small increases in the mitochondrial content of free fatty acids. Free fatty acids accumulate more rapidly in response to limited Ca2+ loading in the absence of N-ethylmaleimide than they do in its presence. In the absence of N-ethylmaleimide, polyunsaturated fatty acids and saturated plus monounsaturated fatty acids accumulate at nearly equal rates. In the presence of N-ethylmaleimide, polyunsaturated fatty acids accumulate more rapidly than saturated plus monounsaturated fatty acids. Any condition or agent tested which inhibited swelling and the other effects produced by Ca2+ plus N-ethylmaleimide also prevented the more rapid accumulation of polyunsaturated, compared to saturated plus monounsaturated, fatty acids. In the light of a positional analysis of phospholipid acyl moieties, these data suggest that 1-acyllysophospholipids accumulate in swelling mitochondria but not in response to noraml Ca2+ loading or when swelling is blocked by other agents. The free fatty acid accumulation, per se, is not responsible for swelling, but levels of exogenous palmitic acid as low as 1 nmol/mg of protein dramatically alter the dependence of swelling velocity on Ca2+ concentration, producing a shift from a sigmoidal- to a hyperbolic-like relationship. This same alteration is brought about by aging the mitochondrial preparation at 0 degrees C. Either pyruvate or DL-carnitine prevents the effect of exogenous palmitate and restores the Aa2+ swelling dependence of aged N-ethylmaleimide-treated mitochondria to that of fresh N-ethylmaleimide-treated mitochondria. Intramitochondrial acylcoenzyme A or acylcarnitine, or both, therefore, to be the modulator of Ca2+ sensitivity rather than free fatty acid. The findings are discussed in terms of the role of intramitochondrial phospholipase and other phospholipid metabolizing enzymes in the mechanisms of N-ethylmaleimide plus Ca2+ effects on mitochondria.
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