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Rudenko SV. Characterization of morphological response of red cells in a sucrose solution. Blood Cells Mol Dis 2009; 42:252-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2009.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2008] [Revised: 12/22/2008] [Accepted: 01/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Low concentration of extracellular hemoglobin affects shape of RBC in low ion strength sucrose solution. Bioelectrochemistry 2009; 75:19-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2008.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2008] [Revised: 12/19/2008] [Accepted: 12/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Pradhan GR, Pandit SA, Gangal AD, Sitaramam V. Shape anisotropy of lipid molecules and voids. J Theor Biol 2003; 220:189-99. [PMID: 12468291 DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2003.3155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Biological polymers, viz., proteins, membranes and micelles exhibit structural discontinuities in terms of spaces unfilled by the polymeric phase, termed voids. These voids exhibit dynamics and lead to interesting properties which are experimentally demonstrable. In the specific case of phospholipid membranes, numerical simulations on a two-dimensional model system showed that voids are induced primarily due to the shape anisotropy in binary mixtures of interacting disks. The results offer a minimal description required to explain the unusually large permeation seen in liposomes made up of specific lipid mixtures (Mathai & Sitaramam, 1994). The results are of wider interest, voids being ubiquitous in biopolymers.
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- Gauri R Pradhan
- Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, 411 007, India.
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Sitaramam V, Sauna ZE. What does a common channel for electrolytes and non-electrolytes in the sperm mean? J Theor Biol 2000; 206:419-28. [PMID: 10988027 DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cell volume is central to osmoregulation in intact cells. Bovine spermatozoa, as also other mammalian spermatozoa, exhibit a very rapid regulatory volume decrease (RVD) when exposed to hypotonic saline media. This response, fastest known in animal cells, is mediated by a putative potassium channel which the pharmacological properties of a conventional channel and yet admits both electrolytes and non-electrolytes. The evolutionary basis and functional role of this conserved quinine-sensitive channel in mammalian sperm could offer hitherto unexplored facets of the link(s) between ecology and reproduction.
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- V Sitaramam
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Pune, Pune, 411 007, India.
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Bovine spermatozoa were shown to exhibit rapid regulatory volume decrease (RVD) when exposed to hypotonic saline media. This quinine- and quinidine-sensitive regulatory volume decrease was coincident with K+ release due to stretch-activation of inhibitor-specific presumptive K+ channels. The regulatory volume decrease response was much faster than a similar phenomenon observed in human peripheral blood lymphocytes. Studies on volume changes in different electrolyte and nonelectrolyte media suggested that: (1) this inhibitor-specific channel could also be a nonspecific pore in the spermatozoal membrane for nonelectrolytes below 150 daltons; (2) subpopulations (of nearly equal size) of the spermatozoa differ in the expression of the pore; (3) capacitation abolishes this distinction between subpopulations of spermatozoa; and (4) the general case of RVD for other mammalian spermatozoa was also established.
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- S B Kulkarni
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Pune, Ganeshkhind, India
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Zavodnik IB, Lapshina EA, Palecz D, Bryszewska M. The effects of palmitate on human erythrocyte membrane potential and osmotic stability. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1996; 56:401-7. [PMID: 8869662 DOI: 10.3109/00365519609088794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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To evaluate the mechanism(s) of erythrocyte stabilization in hypotonic medium by free fatty acids, we have studied the effect of palmitic acid and its derivatives on human erythrocyte membrane electrochemical properties, osmotic stability and fluidity. Palmitic acid increased the membrane potential to the highest extent as compared with its derivatives. The membrane potential was equal to -11.0 +/- 1.7 mV in the absence and -23.3 +/- 3.2 mV in the presence of 400 mumol 1(-1) of palmitic acid, -15.3 +/- 2.2 mV in the presence of 400 mumol 1(-1) of methyl ester of palmitic acid and -14.2 +/- 1.8 mV in the presence of 400 mumol 1(-1) of lauric aldehyde. We propose that free fatty acids, containing the charged carboxylic end group, in contrast to the corresponding esters or aldehydes, can act as ionophores. At the same time, the osmotic stabilization of erythrocytes by palmitic acid and its derivatives was higher in sodium-containing as compared with potassium-containing media and did not correlate with the effect of these compounds on the membrane potential. We suggest that protective potassium leakage does not play a main role in erythrocyte osmotic stabilization by free fatty acids. Possibly this stabilization is due to the structural rearrangement of the whole membrane.
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- I B Zavodnik
- Institute of Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Grodno, Poland
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Kulkarni SB, Somlata V, Sitaramam V. Assessment of molecular sieving across bacterial outer membrane of Pseudomonas. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1281:189-204. [PMID: 8664318 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(96)00010-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The role of the permeability barrier of the outer membrane of Pseudomonas was re-evaluated based on the physical theory of molecular sieving in view of its intrinsic antibiotic resistance. We developed a set of analytical procedures based on parametric and non-parametric statistical tests to evaluate, validate and adopt the better among a set of competing non-linear models of diffusion. The molecular mass dependence of uptake of non-electrolytes in bacteria yielded a quantitative measure to distinguish between sieving mechanisms and specific uptake/efflux mechanisms. The experimental data, supported by the physical model of DEAE-Sephadex and various analytical models and extensive simulation of the errors, both in measurement and models, yielded evidence consistent with the relaxation of the outer membrane matrix barrier in Pseudomonas.
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- S B Kulkarni
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Pune, India
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Stretch sensitivity of transmembrane mobility of hydrogen peroxide through voids in the bilayer. Role of cardiolipin. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)32377-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Hartsel SC, Benz SK, Ayenew W, Bolard J. Na+, K+ and Cl- selectivity of the permeability pathways induced through sterol-containing membrane vesicles by amphotericin B and other polyene antibiotics. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL : EBJ 1994; 23:125-32. [PMID: 8050397 DOI: 10.1007/bf00208866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Membrane diffusion potentials induced by amphotericin B (AmB), amphotericin B methyl ester (AmE), N-fructosyl AmB (N FruAmB) and vacidin, an aromatic polyene antibiotic, in ergosterol- or cholesterol-containing egg yolk phosphatidylcholine large unilamellar vesicles (LUV), were measured in various media, in order to determine the relative selectivity of Na+, K+, Cl- and other ions in these environments. Changes in the membrane potential were followed by fluorescence changes of 3,3'-dipropylthiadicarbocyanine (diS-C3-(5)). Subtle changes in intercationic selectivity were monitored by measuring biionic potentials, using the fluorescent pH sensitive probe pyranine. In all the cases studied, the intercationic selectivity of the permeability pathways induced by the four antibiotics was weak compared to that of specific biological channels, though distinct differences were noted. With AmB the selectivity appeared to be concentration dependent. Above 5 x 10(-7) M, the sequence determined for sterol-free small unilamellar vesicles (SUV) and cholesterol-containing SUV and LUV, Na+ > K+ > Rb+ > or = Cs+ > Li+ (sulfate salts), corresponded closely to Eisenman selectivity sequence number VII. At 5 x 10(-7) M and below the selectivity switched from Na+ > K+ to K+ > Na+. In contrast, Li+ was the most permeant ion for AmB channels in the presence of ergosterol. The selectivity between Na+ or K+ vs. Cl- varied with the antibiotic. It was very strong with vacidin at concentrations below 5 x 10(-7) M, smaller with AmB, nil with AmE and N FruAmB. The selectivities observed were antibiotic, concentration and time dependent, which confirms the existence of different types of channels.
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- S C Hartsel
- Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 54701
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Corchs JL, Corchs MJ, Serrani RE. Neonatal red blood cell lysis induced by hypertonic low ionic strength media. ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES DE PHYSIOLOGIE, DE BIOCHIMIE ET DE BIOPHYSIQUE 1993; 101:249-52. [PMID: 7508280 DOI: 10.3109/13813459309003919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Human neonatal red cells (placental blood) incubated in hypertonic sucrose media showed a significative lytic process in a relatively short time interval. The addition of sodium chloride into the sucrose media reduced the extent of hemolysis. In contrast, the addition of calcium chloride enhanced the hemolysis in these red cells. Calcium-membrane components complex formation that destabilize membrane's bilayer structure would explain the calcium effect above mentioned (on account of the low ionic strength media used and exposed fixed negative charges) This study intends to clarify, in neonatal red cells, the relation between surface charges and cellular stability.
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- J L Corchs
- Catédra de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, UNR, Rosario, Argentina
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Mathai J, Sauna Z, John O, Sitaramam V. Rate-limiting step in electron transport. Osmotically sensitive diffusion of quinones through voids in the bilayer. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)82277-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Rao NM, Nagaraj R. Interaction of wild-type signal sequences and their charged variants with model and natural membranes. Biochem J 1993; 293 ( Pt 1):43-9. [PMID: 8328971 PMCID: PMC1134318 DOI: 10.1042/bj2930043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The interaction of synthetic peptides corresponding to wild-type signal sequences, and their mutants having charged amino acids in the hydrophobic region, with model and natural membranes has been studied. At high peptide concentrations, i.e. low lipid/peptide ratios, the signal peptides cause release of carboxyfluorescein (CF) from model membranes with lipid compositions corresponding to those of translocation-competent as well as translocation-incompetent membranes. Interestingly, mutant sequences, which were non-functional in vivo, caused considerable release of CF compared with the wild-type sequences. Both wild-type and mutant signal sequences perturb model membranes even at lipid/peptide ratios of 1000:1, as indicated by the activities of phospholipases A2, C and D. These studies indicate that such mutant signals are non-functional not because of their inability to interact with membranes, but due to defective targeting to the membrane. The signal peptides inhibit phospholipase C activity in microsomes, uncouple oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria and increase K+ efflux from erythrocytes, and one of the mutant sequences is a potent degranulator of the mast cells. Both wild-type and mutant signal sequences have the ability to perturb vesicles of various lipid compositions. With respect to natural membranes, the peptides do not show any bias towards translocation-competent membranes.
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- N M Rao
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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Shanubhogue A, Rajarshi MB, Gore AP, Sitaramam V. Statistical testing of equality of two break-points in experimental data. JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL METHODS 1992; 25:95-112. [PMID: 1491105 DOI: 10.1016/0165-022x(92)90002-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Two examples in quantitative biology are examined to emphasize the need for two-phase regression models: the osmotic behaviour of cells and the non-linear temperature kinetics of membrane-bound enzyme systems. Existing statistical techniques are inadequate to test the equality of break-points of two data sets for specific reasons. We suggest here a pragmatic solution by way of a computer programme useful in applying two-phase regression models to such data sets wherein a decision needs to be made whether the critical transition differs or not.
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- A Shanubhogue
- Department of Statistics, University of Poona, India
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Sitaramam V, Paranjpe SA, Gangal AD. Charge anisotropy across biological membranes: evidence and implications. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1098:336-42. [PMID: 1310623 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(09)91015-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Membrane proteins exhibit charge anisotropy across the bilayer with the vector positive inwards. The proton pumps, primary or secondary, which have been examined as a subset of these membrane proteins, also reveal charge anisotropy based on their sequence data. The direction of the anisotropy appears to satisfy the observed directional gradient of protons mediated by these proteins. A correct description of transport requires attention to local as well as field effects of the charge anisotropy of membrane proteins.
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- V Sitaramam
- Department of Zoology, University of Poona, Pune, India
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Erythrocyte stability under imposed fields. J Biosci 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02703873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Gass GV, Chernomordik LV. Reversible large-scale deformations in the membranes of electrically-treated cells: electroinduced bleb formation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1023:1-11. [PMID: 2317489 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(90)90002-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Morphological changes in electrically-treated cells have been investigated by light and scanning electron microscopy. The application of 100-microseconds rectangular pulses of 1.3 kV/cm electric field to different types of cells (FBT, MEF, RAT-1, L-cells) in the physiological medium leads to the formation and growth of spherical and hemispherical protuberances of the cell membrane. The formation of such electroinduced blebs is not associated with the cells' death and is reversible. The electroinduced blebs are mainly formed at those sites of the cell membrane which are subjected to the highest voltage during the electric pulses. Increasing the tonicity of the medium by introducing 20 mM of inulin prevents the bleb formation, indicating the osmotically-dependent nature of the processes involved. When electric pulses are applied to the cells pre-treated with cytochalasin B, the formation of electroinduced blebs occurs independently from cytochalasin-induced ones originally present on such cells. Speculations are presented concerning the nature of the membrane structural changes underlying the electroinduced blebbing and their possible role in some electrically-induced processes.
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- G V Gass
- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Sitaramam V, Mathai JC, Rao NM, Block LH. Hydrogen peroxide permeation across liposomal membranes: a novel method to assess structural flaws in liposomes. Mol Cell Biochem 1989; 91:91-7. [PMID: 2622459 DOI: 10.1007/bf00228083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Hydrogen peroxide permeation across large multilamellar vesicles of defined and complex lipid composition was shown to obey precise kinetic relationships for the activity of the occluded catalase. Careful assay conditions precluded simultaneous peroxidative damage to the lipids. The kinetic data was consistent with a barrier role for the bilayer for hydrogen peroxide permeation. More interestingly, hydrogen peroxide permeation across liposomes of complex lipid mixtures exhibited osmotic inhibition of permeation of hydrogen peroxide. On the other hand, purified egg lecithin vesicles did not exhibit any effect of external osmolality on hydrogen peroxide permeation in an experimentally defined non-lytic zone of external osmolarity. These results argue in favour of a heterogeneous, heteroporous structure of bilayers with complex lipid composition.
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- V Sitaramam
- Biotechnology Department of Zoology, University of Poona, Pune, India
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Mathai JC, Sitaramam V. Variable porosity of the mitochondrial inner membrane induced by energization. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 976:214-21. [PMID: 2790043 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(89)80233-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The empirically observed relationship between the activity of membrane-bound enzyme systems and transporters and the external osmotic pressure offered a direct method to assess the reflection coefficients to polyols in respiring mitochondria. These osmotically modulated reaction rates varied with the molecular mass of the external polyol similar to volume and solute fluxes across dialysis membranes. The equivalent pore radii of mitochondria were shown to increase with respiration (and temperature) and decrease on addition of the uncoupler, 2,4-dinitrophenol. The magnitude of the induced porosity in the inner membrane was large enough to render the chemiosmotic mechanism inoperable in well-coupled rat liver mitochondria.
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- J C Mathai
- Department of Zoology, University of Poona, Pune, India
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Sitaramam V, Sambasivarao D, Mathai JC. Differential effects of osmotic pressure on mitochondrial respiratory chain and indices of oxidative phosphorylation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 975:252-66. [PMID: 2545267 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(89)80256-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Oxidative phosphorylation was critically evaluated in terms of activities which are sensitive and insensitive to variations in external osmotic pressure in mitochondria. Integrity of mitochondria was determined in terms of a variety of parameters, including the latency of the occluded enzymes, by careful titrations as a function of external osmotic pressure as well as detergent concentrations. The evidence indicated that the rate-limiting step in respiratory states 2 and 4 would be osmotically insensitive, as opposed to the osmotically sensitive respiration of states 1 and 3 and uncoupler-stimulated respiration with glutamate + malate and succinate. Cytochrome oxidase activity in mitochondria as well as in purified reconstituted systems exhibited osmotic insensitivity but marked sensitivity to ionic strength, offering an interesting model to study the osmotically insensitive respiration. Cytochrome oxidase activity led to permeation of mannitol across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Stimulation of cytochrome oxidase activity by uncouplers did not require an intact membrane.
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- V Sitaramam
- Department of Zoology (Biotechnology), University of Poona, Pune, India
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Serrani RE, Alonso D, Corchs JL. States of stability/lysis in human fetal and adults red blood cells. ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES DE PHYSIOLOGIE ET DE BIOCHIMIE 1989; 97:309-16. [PMID: 2482722 DOI: 10.3109/13813458909075071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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In human red blood cells from umbilical cord (NRBC) and from adult (ARBC) blood we measured: (i) the equilibrium distribution (medium/cells) for haemoglobin as a function of medium osmolality (osmotic fragility curve) and (ii) the rate of haemoglobin loss to a hypotonic medium of fixed osmolality. From the analysis of the osmotic (cumulative) fragility curve, a subpopulation of high resistance (young?) cells was individualized only in samples from cord blood. The differences presented in the rate of haemoglobin loss between samples of umbilical cord and adult's blood point to distinct cell surface restrictions (cytoskeleton and/or plasma membrane phospholipid) to haemoglobin leak in both cells. Uniformly distributed (among all cells in both samples) differences could explain the distinct rates of haemoglobin loss. However, marked differences restricted to only a subpopulation of cord blood cells could also explain these results.
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- R E Serrani
- Catedra de Fisiologia, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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Sambasivarao D, Krämer R, Rao NM, Sitaramam V. ATP hydrolysis induces variable porosity to mannitol in the mitochondrial inner membrane. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 933:200-11. [PMID: 2894857 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(88)90071-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Osmotic titration of ATPase activity in rat liver mitochondria was consistent with enhanced porosity of the mitochondrial inner membrane to mannitol due to ATP hydrolysis even when endogenous respiration was inhibited by rotenone. The occluded ATPase activity, which exhibits osmotic activation with an optimum near isotonicity, depends both on the ATPase activity per se and on the activity of the ADP/ATP carrier. Purified ADP/ATP carrier incorporated into small, unilamellar liposomes was critically shown to exhibit dependence of its activity on the osmotic pressure differences across the membrane, with maximal activity corresponding to isotonicity, regardless of the actual internal tonicity.
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- D Sambasivarao
- Department of Zoology (Biotechnology), University of Poona, Pune, India
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Yarmush ML, Olson WC. Electrophoretic elution from biospecific adsorbents: principles, methodology, and applications. Electrophoresis 1988; 9:111-20. [PMID: 3069459 DOI: 10.1002/elps.1150090302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- M L Yarmush
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
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Mathai JC, Sitaraman V. Preparation of large uni-lamellar liposomes by the ether injection method and evaluation of the physical integrity by osmometry. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0307-4412(87)90052-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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