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Sokolova IM. Ectotherm mitochondrial economy and responses to global warming. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2023; 237:e13950. [PMID: 36790303 DOI: 10.1111/apha.13950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Temperature is a key abiotic factor affecting ecology, biogeography, and evolution of species. Alterations of energy metabolism play an important role in adaptations and plastic responses to temperature shifts on different time scales. Mitochondrial metabolism affects cellular bioenergetics and redox balance making these organelles an important determinant of organismal performances such as growth, locomotion, or development. Here I analyze the impacts of environmental temperature on the mitochondrial functions (including oxidative phosphorylation, proton leak, production of reactive oxygen species(ROS), and ATP synthesis) of ectotherms and discuss the mechanisms underlying negative shifts in the mitochondrial energy economy caused by supraoptimal temperatures. Owing to the differences in the thermal sensitivity of different mitochondrial processes, elevated temperatures (beyond the species- and population-specific optimal range) cause reallocation of the electron flux and the protonmotive force (Δp) in a way that decreases ATP synthesis efficiency, elevates the relative cost of the mitochondrial maintenance, causes excessive production of ROS and raises energy cost for antioxidant defense. These shifts in the mitochondrial energy economy might have negative consequences for the organismal fitness traits such as the thermal tolerance or growth. Correlation between the thermal sensitivity indices of the mitochondria and the whole organism indicate that these traits experience similar selective pressures but further investigations are needed to establish whether there is a cause-effect relationship between the mitochondrial failure and loss of organismal performance during temperature change.
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- Inna M Sokolova
- Department of Marine Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Department of Maritime Systems, Interdisciplinary Faculty, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Schulte PM. The effects of temperature on aerobic metabolism: towards a mechanistic understanding of the responses of ectotherms to a changing environment. J Exp Biol 2015; 218:1856-66. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.118851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 387] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Because of its profound effects on the rates of biological processes such as aerobic metabolism, environmental temperature plays an important role in shaping the distribution and abundance of species. As temperature increases, the rate of metabolism increases and then rapidly declines at higher temperatures – a response that can be described using a thermal performance curve (TPC). Although the shape of the TPC for aerobic metabolism is often attributed to the competing effects of thermodynamics, which can be described using the Arrhenius equation, and the effects of temperature on protein stability, this account represents an over-simplification of the factors acting even at the level of single proteins. In addition, it cannot adequately account for the effects of temperature on complex multistep processes, such as aerobic metabolism, that rely on mechanisms acting across multiple levels of biological organization. The purpose of this review is to explore our current understanding of the factors that shape the TPC for aerobic metabolism in response to acute changes in temperature, and to highlight areas where this understanding is weak or insufficient. Developing a more strongly grounded mechanistic model to account for the shape of the TPC for aerobic metabolism is crucial because these TPCs are the foundation of several recent attempts to predict the responses of species to climate change, including the metabolic theory of ecology and the hypothesis of oxygen and capacity-limited thermal tolerance.
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Barnes KR, Cozzi RRF, Robertson G, Marshall WS. Cold acclimation of NaCl secretion in a eurythermic teleost: mitochondrial function and gill remodeling. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2013; 168:50-62. [PMID: 24239670 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2013] [Revised: 10/30/2013] [Accepted: 11/06/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Active chloride secretion, measured as short-circuit current (Isc) in ionocytes of opercular epithelia (OE) in the eurythermic, euryoxic, and euryhaline killifish or mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) was studied in cold (5°C) and warm (20°C) acclimated fish to determine if homeoviscous adaptation aided chloride secretion in the cold. Isolated opercular epithelia were cooled from 30°C to 0.2°C for warm and cold acclimated fish; from 30 to 8°C, Isc decreased with Q10=1.68 for warm and Q10=1.56 for cold acclimated tissues. By Arrhenius plots, there is a critical temperature, 8°C, below which aerobic Isc decreased sharply (Q10=6.90 for warm and 4.23 for cold acclimated tissues), suggesting a shift in mitochondrial efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation. In anaerobic conditions (0.5mM NaCN; N2 saturation), chloride transport continued at a lower rate, and Isc decrease with cooling below 8°C was less pronounced (Q10=2.95 for warm and 3.08 for cold), suggesting a shift in transporter function in plasma membrane. Under anaerobic conditions, NaCl secretion at 20°C was reversibly inhibited by hypotonic shock, indicating normal regulation of transport. Chloride secretion in warm-acclimated fish was supported mostly (75% at 20°C) by aerobic metabolism, whereas that for cold-acclimated fish was lower (55% at 20°C), suggesting a greater reliance on anaerobic metabolism in the cold. Once acclimated to cold, ionocytes may be temporarily incapable of increasing their aerobic ATP supply, even when warmed to 30°C. In cold acclimated fish there was increased polyunsaturated fatty acid composition of gill epithelium (consistent with homeoviscous adaptation) and gill remodeling, wherein epithelial cells filled the interlamellar space (interlamellar cell mass, ILCM) by as much as 70%, thus increasing diffusion distance against passive ion gain. Most ionocytes in these thickened epithelial masses became taller, still connecting basal lamina with the environment, consistent with the continuing transport rates at low temperatures. Whereas the low aerobic scope of cold-acclimated fish and thickened gill epithelium is appropriate to winter inactivity, metabolic depression and anaerobiosis, the large aerobic scope of warm-acclimated fish favors active foraging at high temperatures.
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- Katelyn R Barnes
- Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada
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- Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada
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- Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada
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- Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada.
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Mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase activity and temperature adaptation inSchistocephalus solidus(Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea). Parasitology 2009. [DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000052665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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SUMMARYDuring its life-cycle, the cestodeSchistocephalus solidusis parasitic in both an ectotherm (Gasterosteus aculeatus) and an endotherm (Gallus domesticus) host, and so provides an excellent model with which to study temperature adaptation in parasites. A mitochondrial fraction was prepared from the adults and plerocercoids ofS. solidusand from their respective hosts; the activities of the mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) were then measured over the temperature range 1–45 °C. The plerocercoids ofS. solidusshow evidence of immediate temperature compensation; this would provide a mechanism for withstanding the abrupt temperature change experienced during infection of the final host. Analysis of the Michaelis constant data suggests that variation of Km, awith temperature may be a major factor in this immediate temperature compensation. In response to acclimation at 5 and 19°C, plerocercoid ATPase showed inverse or paradoxical rate compensation, as did the enzyme from the fish host. Acclimation at the two temperatures had no effect on the Q10or on the linearity of the Arrhenius plots for the plerocercoid mitochondrial ATPase and only a small effect on the Km a. Acclimation of the fish host again had only a small effect on the Km, aof the fish mitochondrial ATPase but, in contrast to the plerocercoid, there was also a significant effect on the Q10and the Arrhenius plots. AdultS. solidusATPase showed partial rate compensation and had a biphasic Arrhenius plot, suggesting that after infection there had been a change in the enzyme or its micro-environment. In terms of the effect of temperature on the Q10amd Km, aand in the biphasic nature of the Arrhenius plot, the mitochondrial ATPase of adultS. solidusshowed similarities with the enzyme from its bird host.
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Pörtner HO, Lannig G. Chapter 4 Oxygen and Capacity Limited Thermal Tolerance. FISH PHYSIOLOGY 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1546-5098(08)00004-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Fudge DS, Stevens ED, Ballantyne JS. No evidence for homeoviscous adaptation in a heterothermic tissue: tuna heat exchangers. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 275:R818-23. [PMID: 9728080 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.275.3.r818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Many poikilotherms are known to adjust the membrane composition of their cells in response to a temperature change so that membrane fluidity, and therefore function, is conserved. Such compensatory changes in membrane composition are considered "homeoviscous adaptations." In this study, we examined a heterothermic tissue, the visceral rete mirabile of the bluefin tuna, for evidence of homeoviscous adaptation. We measured the proportions of phospholipid fatty acids and phospholipid head groups as a function of position along the rete thermal gradient, which has been estimated to be approximately 10 degrees C. We found no effect of position along the rete on the composition of either phospholipid fatty acids or head groups. Our results were unexpected in light of our previous demonstration of compensation of metabolic enzyme activity in the same tissue. The lack of evidence for a homeoviscous response may be due to the fluctuating nature of the thermal gradient along the visceral retia; i.e., membranes may be adapted to a eurythermal existence rather than being fine-tuned to a particular temperature.
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- D S Fudge
- Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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Hazel J. Thermal Adaptation in Biological Membranes: Beyond Homeoviscous Adaptation. THERMOBIOLOGY 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2558(08)60075-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Acierno R, Maffia M, Sicuro P, Fiammata L, Rollo M, Ronzini L, Storelli C. Lipid and fatty acid composition of intestinal mucosa of two Antarctic teleosts. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9629(96)00081-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Trigari G, Pirini M, Ventrella V, Pagliarani A, Trombetti F, Borgatti AR. Lipid composition and mitochondrial respiration in warm- and cold-adapted sea bass. Lipids 1992; 27:371-7. [PMID: 1406066 DOI: 10.1007/bf02536152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The response to cold of liver and heart membrane lipid composition and mitochondrial respiration in reared sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) was investigated. Fish acclimation was followed during the natural seasonal cycle from August to March. The data on the fatty acid composition of liver and heart polar lipids and on total lipids of liver mitochondria and microsomes did not indicate any increase in unsaturation in response to cold. The enzyme complexes of the liver and heart mitochondrial respiratory chain showed a repeated negative compensation for cold acclimation. The constancy of the break in the Arrhenius plot of liver cytochrome oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1) was consistent with the lack of homeoviscous adaptation of membrane lipids. A thermoadaptive strategy based on the reduction of sea bass metabolic activity is suggested.
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- G Trigari
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Bologna, Italy
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Dittrich B. Comparative studies on the thermal properties of a trypsin-like protease intwo hermit crabs. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02366211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Wodtke E, Cossins AR. Rapid cold-induced changes of membrane order and delta 9-desaturase activity in endoplasmic reticulum of carp liver: a time-course study of thermal acclimation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1064:343-50. [PMID: 2036447 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(91)90321-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The membrane order of liver endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes of 10 degrees C- and 30 degrees C-acclimated carp has been compared using the fluorescence polarization technique with DPH as probe. Membranes from cold-acclimated fish displayed lower polarizations than corresponding membranes from warm-acclimated fish, the difference compensating for 34-50% of the direct effects of temperature upon polarization. The changes in delta 9-desaturase activity and fluorescence polarization of DPH in ER membranes have been monitored as a function of time during cold acclimation of 30 degrees C-acclimated carp. Cooling was achieved in three stages over 48 h. Desaturase activity in both rough and smooth ER showed a rapid increase in activity for the first three days followed by a decline on day 4 and a second increase up to day 10. Polarization of DPH (measured at 10 degrees C) was rapidly reduced on cooling with no further change after day 4. The halftime for change in polarization and for the first desaturase induction were both approx. 2 days although large changes in polarization were evident within 24 h after the onset of cooling. During the cooling phases the daily changes in DPH polarization were quantitatively related to increments in desaturase capacity. The second desaturase induction had no effect upon membrane structure, at least as indicated by the polarization technique.
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- E Wodtke
- Department of Zoophysiology, University of Kiel, F.R.G
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For homeotherms the maintenance of a high, uniform body temperature requires a constant energy supply and food intake. For many small mammals, the loss of heat in winter exceeds energy supply, particularly when food is scarce. To survive, some animals have developed a capacity for adaptive hypothermia in which they lower their body temperature to a new regulatory set-point, usually a few degrees above the ambient. This process, generally known as hibernation, reduces the temperature differential, metabolic activity, as well as the energy demand, and thus facilitates survival during winter. Successful hibernation in mammals requires that the enzymatic processes are regulated in such a manner that metabolic balance is maintained at both the high body temperature of the summer-active animal (37 degrees C) and the low body temperature of the winter-torpid animal (approx. 5 degrees C). This means that the cellular membranes have thermal properties capable of maintaining a balanced metabolism at these extreme physiological temperatures. The available evidence indicates that, for some tissues, preparation for hibernation involves an alteration in the lipid composition and thermal properties of cellular membranes. Marked differences in the thermal response of cellular membranes have been observed on a seasonal basis and, in some membranes, differences in lipid composition have been associated with the torpid state. However, to date, no consistent changes in lipid composition which would account for, or explain, the changes in membrane thermal response, have been detected. An important point to emphasize is that the process of 'homeoviscous adaptation', which occurs in procaryotes and some poikilotherms during acclimation to low temperatures, is not a characteristic feature of most membranes of mammalian hibernators.
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- R C Aloia
- Department of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, CA 92350
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Hazel JR. Cold Adaptation in Ectotherms: Regulation of Membrane Function and Cellular Metabolism. ADVANCES IN COMPARATIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY 1989. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-74078-7_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Braunbeck T, Gorgas K, Storch V, Völkl A. Ultrastructure of hepatocytes in golden ide (Leuciscus idus melanotus L.; Cyprinidae: Teleostei) during thermal adaptation. ANATOMY AND EMBRYOLOGY 1987; 175:303-13. [PMID: 3826656 DOI: 10.1007/bf00309844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The morphological alterations of hepatocytes of golden ide, Leuciscus idus melanotus, following adaptation to low and high temperatures (14 and 28 degrees C) were investigated by means of light and electron microscopy. The temperature-dependent behaviour of peroxisomes was visualized cytochemically with the alkaline diaminobenzidine medium; the morphological studies were supplemented by the biochemical determination of catalase activity. Cold adaptation of ide hepatocytes is manifested by proliferation and stacking of endoplasmic reticulum, an enhanced secretory activity of Golgi fields and a higher number of peroxisomes as compared with the warm-adapted animals. The latter organelles are characterized by a marked heterogeneity in size, shape and catalase activity, and by a more intimate association with mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum. The occurrence of small peroxisomal profiles is restricted to lower temperature. Catalase activity can be shown both cytochemically and biochemically to increase during cold adaptation. Whereas the number of mitochondria seems to be unaffected by thermal adaptation, stacking of mitochondria as well as the formation of intramitochondrial membrane piles indicate cold-adaptive processes. A feature typical of warm-adaptation is the formation of membrane-glycogen complexes, which may represent the morphological expression of enhanced carbohydrate metabolism documented in a decreased storage of glycogen at 28 degrees C. At 28 degrees C lipid is the predominant storage product. These findings indicate that fish liver is well-suited to serve as a model for the analysis of the interaction of environmental temperature conditions and hepatic morphology.
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Changes in desaturase activity and the fatty acid composition of microsomal membranes from liver tissue of thermally-acclimating rainbow trout. J Comp Physiol B 1985. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00692924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Seibert H. Viability control and oxygen consumption of isolated hepatocytes from thermally acclimated rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnerii). COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1985; 80:677-83. [PMID: 3995913 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(85)90445-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Hepatocytes were isolated by collagenase perfusion of the liver from rainbow trout acclimated to 10 and 20 degrees C. The suitability of the stimulation of cellular respiration by succinate as criterion of viability was examined and discussed. Endogenous respiration rates of the hepatocytes were a function of cell size to the power of 0.8. Specific oxygen consumption of the hepatocytes and respiratory control ratios of the mitochondria in situ were independent of acclimation temperature.
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Seasonal and temperature-related changes in mitochondrial membranes associated with torpor in the mammalian hibernator Spermophilus richardsonii. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(84)90247-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Thermal response of liver mitochondrial membranes of the heterothermic bat (Miniopterus schreibersh) in summer and winter. J Therm Biol 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/0306-4565(84)90019-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Wodtke E. K+-compartimentation-functions and fluidity in the membranes of red blood cells (RBC) from cold and warm accilmated CAPR. J Therm Biol 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/0306-4565(83)90057-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Wilms J, Dekker HL, Boelens R, van Gelder BF. The effect of pH and ionic strength on the pre-steady-state reaction of cytochrome c and cytochrome aa3. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1981; 637:168-76. [PMID: 6269605 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(81)90223-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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(1) In the pH range between 5.0 and 8.0, the rate constants for the reaction of ferrocytochrome c with both the high- and low-affinity sites on the cytochrome aa3 increased by a factor of approx. 2 per pH unit. (2) The pre-steady-state reaction between ferrocytochrome c and cytochrome aa3 did nt cause a change in the pH of an unbuffered medium. Furthermore, it was found that this reaction and the steady-state reaction are equally fast in H2O and 2H2O. From these results it was concluded that no protons are directly involved in a rate-determining reaction step. (3) Arrhenius plots show that the reaction between ferrocytochrome c and cytochrome aa3 requires a higher enthalpy of activation at temperatures below 20 degrees C (15--16 kcal/mol) as compared to that at higher temperature (9 kcal/mol). We found no effect of ionic strength on the activation enthalpy of the pre-steady-state reaction, nor on that of the steady-state reaction. This suggests that ionic strength does not change the character of these reactions, but merely affects the electrostatic interaction between both cytochromes.
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Wodtke E. Temperature adaptation of biological membranes. Compensation of the molar activity of cytochrome c oxidase in the mitochondrial energy-transducing membrane during thermal acclimation of the carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1981; 640:710-20. [PMID: 6260175 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(81)90101-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The acclimation temperature of carp does not affect the amount of cytochrome c oxidase per mg mitochondrial protein as revealed from the reduced-minus-oxidized difference spectra of red muscle mitochondria from cold- and warm-acclimated carp. There are no differences between cold- and warm-acclimated fish in the substrate binding properties of the enzyme as judged from the Km values for cytochrome c at 30 degrees C (3.34 +/- 0.ee microM, acclimation temperature 10 degrees C and 3.55 +/- 0.31 microM, acclimation temperature 30 degrees C). The molar activities of the enzyme, however, differ for both acclimation temperatures: when intercalated in the 10 degrees C-acclimated mitochondrial membrane, the enzyme can catalyze the oxidation of 117.6 +/- 17.2 mol ferrocytochrome c/s per mol heme a as compared with 85.6 +/- 17.2 in the 30 degrees C-acclimated membrane (experimental temperature 30 degrees C). Correspondingly, higher specific activities of the succinate oxidase system are observed in mitochondria from cold-acclimated carp as compared with those obtained from warm-acclimated carp. The results indicate that cold acclimation of the eurythermic carp is accompanied by a partial compensation of the acute effect of decreasing temperature on the activity of cytochrome c oxidase in red muscle mitochondria. Based on the temperature-induced lipid adaptation reported for carp red muscle mitochondria (Wodtke, E. (1980) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 640, 698--709), it is concluded that during thermal acclimation the molar activity of cytochrome c oxidase is controlled by viscotropic regulation. The results fit to the conception that cardiolipin constitutes a lipid shell (annulus) surrounding the oxidase within the native membrane, but that it is the bilayer fluidity and not the annular fluidity which determines the activity of cytochrome c oxidase.
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Wodtke E. Temperature adaptation of biological membranes. The effects of acclimation temperature on the unsaturation of the main neutral and charged phospholipids in mitochondrial membranes of the carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1981; 640:698-709. [PMID: 7213701 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(81)90100-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The phospholipid composition, fatty acid pattern and cholesterol content are studied in mitochondria of red lateral muscle of carp acclimated to high and low environmental temperatures. The results of the experiments are: mitochondria from cold-acclimated carp contain higher proportions of ethanolamine phosphatides than mitochondria from warm-acclimated fish, the opposite is true for the choline phosphatides. Thus, at constant pH, the membrane phospholipids are slightly more negatively charged at low acclimation temperature. The total plasmalogen content is reduced in the cold; this reduction is caused by a decrease in the proportion of the choline plasmalogens. The ethanolamine phosphoglycerides contain approx. 20% of the alk-1-enyl acyl type, irrespective of the acclimation temperature. There is no temperature-dependent difference in the low proportion of cholesterol. The fatty acids of total mitochondrial phospholipids are characterized by large amounts of the n-3 and n-6 families. The ratio of unsaturated to saturated fatty acids and the unsaturation index are remarkably higher than those reported for comparable mammalian phospholipids. Cold acclimation of carp does not significantly increase the unsaturation of total phospholipids. A fatty acid analysis of the main isolated phospholipids, however, shows that cold acclimation considerably increases unsaturation of the neutral phosphatidylcholine, whereas it dramatically decreases unsaturation of the negatively charged cardiolipin. It is suggested that the observed fatty acid substitution in phosphatidylcholine indicates a temperature-induced fluidity adaptation within the mitochondrial lipid bilayer, whereas the inverse acclimation pattern of cardiolipin provides a suitable lipid to accommodate the temperature-dependent modifications in the dynamic surface shape of integral membrane proteins.
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Cossins AR, Kent J, Prosser CL. A steady state and differential polarised phase fluorimetric study of the liver microsomal and mitochondrial membranes of thermally acclimated green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1980; 599:341-58. [PMID: 7407099 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(80)90182-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The liver mitochondrial and microsomal membranes of green sunfish and rat were examined by steady state polarisation and differential polarised phase fluorimetry to determine the effects of seasonal adaptation of membrane dynamic structure to temperature. Steady state polarisation studies indicated that the liver mitochondria of green sunfish acclimated to different temperatures showed a greater partial compensation of membrane fluidity for the fatty acid composition of both membrane preparations generally became more unsaturated at lower acclimation temperatures, though the differences between 5 degrees C and 25 degrees C acclimated fish were more pronounced in the mitochondrial fraction than in the microsomal fraction. Differential polarised phase fluorimetric studies indicated that the rotations of diphynylhexatriene in mitochondrial and microsomal membranes were highly hindered, though the hindrance offered by membranes of 25 degrees C acclimated green sunfish was far greater than that offered by the membranes of 5 degrees C acclimated fish, thus supporting the concept of homeoviscous adaptation. The absolute rotational rate was not consistently affected by acclimation treatment.
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Structural changes ofNoetia ponderosa red blood cell membranes during cell volume regulation in reduced salinities: A freeze fracture study. J Comp Physiol B 1980. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00691564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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van den Thillart G, Modderkolk J. The effect of acclimation temperature on the activation energies of state III respiration and on the unsaturation of membrane lipids of goldfish mitochondria. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1978; 510:38-51. [PMID: 208606 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(78)90128-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The influence of the acclimation temperature on the thermotropic behaviour of mitochondrial respiration and on the degree of unsaturation of mitochondrial membrane lipids has been studied. The mitochondria were isolated from red muscle, white muscle and liver of goldfish acclimated to 5, 20 and 30 degrees C. ADP-activated succinate oxidation was measured at different temperatures and resulted in non-linear Arrhenius-plots with breaks between 10 and 23 degrees C. As for the break-temperatures, there was found a shift downwards in preparations of decreased acclimation temperatures. This could be caused by a changed composition of membrane lipids and a simultaneous shift of the membrane phase transition temperature. Therefore, the fatty acid composition of all membrane preparations was analyzed. However, no consistent change of the degree of unsaturation due to a changed acclimation temperature could be found.
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Wodtke E. Lipid adaptation in liver mitochondrial membranes of carp acclimated to different environmental temperatures: phospholipid composition, fatty acid pattern and cholesterol content. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1978; 529:280-91. [PMID: 656457 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(78)90071-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The lipid fraction of liver mitochondria has been studied in carp acclimated to high and low environmental temperatures. Evidence is provided for a temperature-induced lipid adaptation which might control membrane fluidity. This supports suggestions made in a recent communication on temperature-induced changes in the Arrhenius functions of mitochondrial oxidase systems from carp liver ((Wodtke, E. (1976) J. Comp. Physiol. 110, 145--157). The results of the analysis of lipid composition are: the ratio of phospholipid to protein does not differ at cold and warm acclimation temperatures. Fish kept at low environmental temperature show a decreased molar ratio of cholesterol : phospholipid in mitochondrial membrane lipids; the diminished complexation renders phospholipids more sensitive to fluidity control by fatty acid substitution. A decrease of mitochondrial phosphatidylcholine at low acclimation temperature is observed, which is compensated by increased amounts of phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylinositol. This means there is an increase in the acidic character of the phospholipids at low environmental temperature, and might be the cause of fluidization of the membrane and a decrease in transition temperature. The fatty acid pattern of carp mitochondria differs markedly from that of mammalian mitochondria; it is not identical for total lipids, phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, and is roughly characterized by high amounts in n--3, but low amounts in n--6 and mono-unsaturated fatty acids. Low environmental temperature decreases the proportion of saturated species and markedly lowers the ratio of the alpha-linolenic acid family, the latter perhaps being caused by the increased activity of delta6-desaturase, as calculated for low acclimation temperature. An increase in mean unsaturation and in the proportion of 1,2-diunsaturated phospholipids most probably increases membrane fluidity at low acclimation temperature.
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Smith CL. The temperature dependence of State IV respiration, the calcium uptake system, and the activity of the calcium ionophore A23187 in mitochondria from endo- and ectothermic animals. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1978; 59:231-7. [PMID: 122557 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(78)90252-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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1. Arrhenius plots of State IV respiratory activity of liver mitochondria from both rainbow trout and rat were linear over the temperature range 5-35 degrees C. 2. Calcium uptake was monitored by stimulation of oxygen consumption and by calcium electrode recording, with quite comparable results. Rainbow trout gave the usual linear Arrhenius plot but this plot for rat mitochondria exhibited two well-defined inflections or discontinuities. 3. The temperature dependence of the activity of the ionophore A23187 was investigated by measuring the increase in oxygen uptake following a sub-maximal dose of this drug. Again a linear relation was found for rainbow trout, but in this case the rat curves showed only a single inflection point. 4. These results are discussed in relation to other work on the effects of lipid phase transitions on mitochondrial membrane-associated systems.
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- C L Smith
- Department of Zoology, University of Liverpool, England
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Comparison of digestive ?-amylases from two species of spiders (Tegenaria atrica andCupiennius salei). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1978. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00738421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Smith C. Temperature and the regulation of activity of some mitochondrial enzyme systems in ecto- and endo-thermic animals. J Therm Biol 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/0306-4565(77)90034-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Charnock JS, Simonson LP. Differential lipid control of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase in homeotherms and poikilotherms. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1977; 58:381-7. [PMID: 233786 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(77)90185-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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1. (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from homeotherms and poikilotherms demonstrate non-linear thermal dependence for ATP hydrolysis. Apparent energies of activation from crab nerve preparations are less than those of brain or kidney preparations from beef, rabbit, sheep or ground squirrel. 2. Crab nerve (Na+ + K+)-ATPase is less sensitive to inhibition by ouabain than that from beef or ground squirrel; lower rates of [3H]-ouabain binding and reduced amount of drug bound at equilibrium are found. 3. K+-activated acyl-phosphatase is similar in all preparations. 4. Fluorescence polarization of 12-AS labelled membranes demonstrate greater mobility of crab nerve lipids compared to beef brain which has a thermal transition at 20-25 degrees C. Crab nerve is linear in this range.
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- J S Charnock
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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