The inhibition of mitochondrial calcium transport by lanthanides and ruthenium red.
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SUBMITTER: Reed KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1167986 | biostudies-other | 1974 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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Project description:1. Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca2+ transport in the mouse ascites sarcoma 180/TG is enriched in a 'heavy' microsomal fraction (microsomes) sedimented at 35 000 g for 20 min. The subcellular distribution of this Ca2+ transport differed from that of Ruthenium Red-sensitive Ca2+ transport and (Na+ + K+)-dependent ATPase activity, but was similar to that of glucose 6-phosphatase. 2. The affinity of this transport system for 'free' Ca2+ is high (Km approx. 6 microM) and that for MgATP somewhat lower (Km approx. 100 microM). Ca2+ transport by the tumour microsomes, by contrast with that by liver microsomes, was greatly stimulated by low concentrations of P1. 3. Although incubation of intact ascites cells with glucagon led to an increase in intracellular cyclic AMP, no stable increase in the initial rate of Ca2+ transport in the subsequently isolated 'heavy' microsomes could be detected as in similar experiments carried out previously with rat liver cells. Reconstitution experiments suggest that a deficiency exists in the tumour microsomal membrane such that an action of glucagon that is normally present in rat liver microsomes is not evoked.
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Project description:The maturation of glucagon-stimulated Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca2+-transport activity was determined in livers of rats ranging in age from 5 days preterm to 10 weeks of adult life. Previous indications are that this activity is confined to vesicles derived mainly from the endoplasmic reticulum. Perinatal-rat liver contains near-adult values of Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca2+-transport activity, and exhibits large transient increases in the rate of this activity at two stages of development, immediately after birth, and at 2-5 days after birth. The administration of glucagon to foetal rats, at developmental stages after 19.5 days of gestation (2.5 days before birth), results in a large stable increase (greater than 100%) of Ca2+-transport activity in a subsequently isolated 'heavy' microsomal fraction. That this fraction was enriched in vesicles derived from the rough endoplasmic reticulum was indicated by both an electron-microscopic examination and a marker-enzyme analysis of the subcellular fractions. The administration of glucagon into newborn animals only hours old does not enhance further the initial rate of Ca2+-transport activity, and from day 1 to 10 weeks after birth the administration of the hormone results in the moderate enhancement of Ca2+ transport. Experiments with cyclic AMP and inhibitors of phosphodiesterase activity suggest that cyclic AMP plays a key role in the enhancement by glucagon of Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca2+ transport, and arguments are presented that this transport system has an important metabolic role in the redistribution of intracellular Ca2+ in liver tissue.
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Project description:TRPV6 is a calcium-selective ion channel implicated in epithelial Ca2+ uptake. TRPV6 inhibitors are needed for the treatment of a broad range of diseases associated with disturbed calcium homeostasis, including cancers. Here we combine cryo-EM, calcium imaging, and mutagenesis to explore molecular bases of human TRPV6 inhibition by the antifungal drug econazole and the universal ion channel blocker ruthenium red (RR). Econazole binds to an allosteric site at the channel's periphery, where it replaces a lipid. In contrast, RR inhibits TRPV6 by binding in the middle of the ion channel's selectivity filter and plugging its pore like a bottle cork. Despite different binding site locations, both inhibitors induce similar conformational changes in the channel resulting in closure of the gate formed by S6 helices bundle crossing. The uncovered molecular mechanisms of TRPV6 inhibition can guide the design of a new generation of clinically useful inhibitors.
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Project description:1. The subcellular distribution and maturation of Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport activity were determined in livers of rats ranging in age from 3 days pre-term to 10 weeks of adult life and compared with those of glucose 6-phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase and Ruthenium Red-sensitive Ca(2+) transport. Initial rates of Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport were highest in those fractions enriched in glucose 6-phosphatase, i.e. the microsomal fraction; this fraction was devoid of Ruthenium Red-sensitive Ca(2+) transport activity. Although the heaviest fraction (nuclear) contained significant amounts of 5'-nucleotidase activity it was devoid of Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport activity. 2. Foetal rat liver contain minimal amounts of Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport activity, glucose 6-phosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase activities. These begin to be expressed concomitantly soon after birth; Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport is maximal by 3 to 4 days and remains so for up to at least 10 weeks of adult life. Glucose 6-phosphatase also reaches a peak at 3-4 days, but then rapidly decreases to approach adult values. Maximal activity of 5'-nucleotidase in the microsomal and nuclear fractions is seen about 4-6 days after birth; this enzyme activity remains increased for up to about 10 days and then falls, but not as rapidly as glucose 6-phosphatase. It is tentatively suggested that the bulk of the Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport is attributable to the system derived from the endoplasmic reticulum. 3. Administration of glucagon to adult rats enhances by 2-3-fold the initial rate of Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport in the intermediate but not the microsomal fraction. The hormone-induced effect is fully suppressed by co-administration of puromycin, is dose-dependent with half-maximal response at approx. 1mug of glucagon/100g body wt. and time-dependent exhibiting a half-maximal response about 1h after administration of the hormone. 4. Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport in the post-mitochondrial fraction of foetal liver also responds to the administration in situ of glucagon. The response, which also is prevented by co-administration of puromycin, is maximal in those foetuses nearing term. The suggestion is made that these effects of the hormone on Ruthenium Red-insensitive Ca(2+) transport are an integral part of the physiological network in the liver cell.
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Project description:Ruthenium Red (RuR) is widely used as an inhibitor of ryanodine receptor Ca(2+) release channels, but has additional effects such as the induction of Ca(2+) sensitization of contraction of permeabilized smooth muscles. To address the mechanism underlying this process, we examined the effects of RuR on contractility in permeabilized guinea-pig ileum and on the activity of myosin-light-chain phosphatase (MP). RuR increased the force at submaximal [Ca(2+)] (pCa 6.3) approx. 4-fold. This effect was not observed after thiophosphorylation of MP. RuR also seemed capable of preventing the thiophosphorylation of MP, suggesting a direct interaction of RuR with MP. Consistent with this possibility, smooth-muscle MP was inhibited by RuR in a concentration-dependent manner (IC(50) 23 microM). Exogenous calmodulin significantly increased RuR-induced contraction at pCa 6.3 but had little effect on contraction induced by microcystin at this [Ca(2+)]. Ca(2+)-independent contraction was induced by RuR (EC(50) 843 microM) and by microcystin (EC(50) 59 nM) but the maximal force induced by RuR was smaller than that induced by microcystin. The addition of 300 microM RuR enhanced the contraction induced by 30 nM microcystin but markedly decreased that induced by 1 microM microcystin. Such a dual action of RuR on microcystin-induced effects was not observed in experiments using purified MP. We conclude that the RuR-induced Ca(2+) sensitization of smooth-muscle contraction is due to the direct inhibition of MP by RuR.
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Project description:1. Seven fractions sedimenting at between 3000 and 120000g-min were prepared from a rat liver homogenate by differential centrifugation in buffered iso-osmotic sucrose. The following measurements were carried out on each of these fractions: Ruthenium Red-sensitive Ca(2+) transport in the absence and in the presence of P(i) as well as in the presence of N-ethylmaleimide to prevent P(i) cycling, succinate-supported respiration in the absence and in the presence of ADP, the DeltaE and -59 DeltapH components of the protonmotive force, cytochrome oxidase, uncoupler-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase, alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, P(i) content and the effect on the ;resting' rate of respiration of repeated additions of a fixed Ca(2+) concentration. 2. Ca(2+) transport either in the presence or in the absence of added P(i) and in the presence of N-ethylmaleimide exhibits significantly higher rates in the fraction sedimenting at 8000g-min. By contrast, respiration in the presence or in the absence of added ADP and the values for DeltaE and -59 DeltapH were similar in those fractions sedimenting between 4000 and 20000g-min, indicating that the driving force for Ca(2+) transport was similar in each of these fractions. 3. Experiments designed to determine the capacity of the individual fractions for Ca(2+), as measured by the effect of repeated additions of Ca(2+) on the resting rate of respiration, showed that fraction 2, i.e. that sedimenting at 8000g-min, also exhibited the greatest tolerance towards the uncoupling action of the ion. 4. Of the three enzyme activity profiles, only that of alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase was similar to that of Ca(2+) transport. Because previous workers have assigned this enzyme to loci in the inner peripheral membrane [Werner & Neupert (1972) Eur. J. Biochem.25, 379-396], it is concluded that the Ruthenium Red-sensitive Ca(2+)- transport system also is located in this domain of the inner membrane. The relation of these findings to the mechanisms of mitochondrial Ca(2+) transport and the biogenesis of mitochondria is discussed.
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Project description:The maturation of Ca(2+) transport in mitochondria isolated from rat liver was examined, from 5 days before birth. The mitochondria used were isolated from liver homogenates by centrifugation at 22000g-min. Ca(2+) transport by mitochondria isolated from foetal liver is energy-dependent and Ruthenium Red-sensitive. The transmembrane pH gradient in these mitochondria is higher by about 7mV and the membrane potential lower by about 20mV than in adult mitochondria. The inclusion of 2mm-P(i) in the incubation medium enhances the protonmotive force by approx. 30mV. The rate of Ca(2+) influx in foetal mitochondria measured in buffered KCl plus succinate is low until about 2-3h after birth, when it increases to about 60% of adult values; approx. 24h later it has reached near-adult values. Higher rates of Ca(2+) influx are observed in the presence of 2mm-P(i); 3-5 days before birth the rates are about one-third of adult values and decline slightly as birth approaches. By 2-3h post partum they have reached adult values. The inclusion of 12.5mum-MgATP with the P(i) stimulates further the initial rate of Ca(2+) influx in foetal mitochondria. The rates observed are constant over the prenatal period examined and are 50-60% of those observed in adult mitochondria. Mitochondria isolated from foetal livers 4-5 days before birth retain the accumulated Ca(2+) for about 50min in the presence of 2mm-P(i). In the period 2 days before birth to birth, this ability is largely lost, but by 2-3h after birth Ca(2+) retention is similar to that of adult mitochondria. The presence of 12.5mum-MgATP progressively enhances the Ca(2+) retention time as development proceeds until 2-3h after birth, when it becomes less sensitive to added MgATP. Glucagon administration to older foetuses in utero enhances both the rate of mitochondrial Ca(2+) influx assayed in the presence of 2mm-P(i) and the time for which mitochondria retain accumulated Ca(2+) in the presence of 12.5mum-MgATP and 2mm-P(i). Its administration to neonatal animals leads to an increase in mitochondrial Ca(2+) retention similar to that seen in adult mitochondria. The data provide evidence that the Ruthenium Red-sensitive Ca(2+) transporter is potentially as active in foetal mitochondria 5 days before birth as it is in adult mitochondria. They also show that foetal mitochondria have an ability to retain accumulated Ca(2+) reminiscent of mitochondria from tumour cells and from hormone-challenged rat liver.
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