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JOURNAL OF BIOENERGETICS AND BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 107-112Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10863-009-9215-9
Keywords
Heart failure; Mitochondria; Respirasomes; Oxidative phosphorylation
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- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Program Project [PO1 (HL074237)]
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This minireview focuses on the impairment of function in cardiac mitochondria in heart failure (HF). It is generally accepted that chronic energy starvation leads to cardiac mechanical dysfunction in HF. Mitochondria are the primary ATP generator for the heart. Current evidence suggests that the assembly of the electron transport chain (ETC) into respirasomes provides structural support for mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by facilitating electron channeling and perhaps by preventing electron leak and superoxide production. Defects have been purported to occur in the individual ETC complexes or components of the phosphorylation apparatus in HF, but these defects have not been linked to impaired mitochondrial function. Moreover, studies that reported decreased mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in HF did not identify the site of the defect. We propose a sequential mechanistic pathway in which the decrease in functional respirasomes in HF is the primary event causing decreased oxidative phosphorylation and increased reactive oxygen species production, leading to a progressive decrease in cardiac performance.
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