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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 101, Issue 6, Pages 679-689Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00421-007-0544-2
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mitochondria; flux control; oxidative phosphorylation; skeletal muscle
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Flux control analysis of eight reactions involved in oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria from rat quadriceps muscle was performed under circumstances resembling in vivo conditions of carbohydrate or fatty acid oxidation. The major flux control at a respiration rate of 55% of state 3 was associated with the ADP- generating system, i.e., 0.58 +/- 0.05 with pyruvate, but significantly lower, 0.40 +/- 0.05, with palmitoyl- carnitine as substrate. The flux control coefficients of complex I, III and IV, the ATP synthase, the ATP/ ADP carrier and the P-i carrier were 0.070 +/- 0.03, 0.083 +/- 0.04, 0.054 +/- 0.01, 0.11 +/- 0.03, 0.090 +/- 0.03 and 0.026 +/- 0.01, respectively, with pyruvate as substrate. With palmitoyl- carnitine all control coefficients were significantly different, except for the Pi carrier (i.e., 0.024 +/- 0.001, 0.036 +/- 0.01, 0.052 +/- 0.02, 0.020 +/- 0.002, 0.034 +/- 0.02 and 0.012 +/- 0.002, respectively), probably caused by the shift from NADH to FADH(2) oxidation. The sum of flux control coefficients was not significantly different from unity with pyruvate, while only 0.58 with palmitoyl- carnitine, indicating significant control contributions from the enzymes involved with the fatty acid oxidation or transport. Flux control of ADP generation was specifically tested at three different respiration rates, 30, 55 and 75% of state 3. At all respiration rates control was higher with pyruvate and pyruvate + palmitoyl- carnitine compared with palmitoylcarnitine as substrate. Also the control was lower at 75% compared to 30% of the state 3 respiration both with pyruvate and pyruvate + palmitoyl- carnitine as substrate, suggesting that muscle respiration moves from demand control'' to supply control'' as respiration increases.
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