期刊
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
卷 1777, 期 10, 页码 1268-1275出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.06.002
关键词
Mitochondria; Respiration; Hypoxia; Anoxia; Nitric oxide; Nitrite
资金
- CER region Pays-de-la-Loire
- Semences
- Anjou Recherche Semences (ARES)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Actively respiring animal and plant tissues experience hypoxia because of mitochondrial O-2 consumption. Controlling oxygen balance is a critical issue that involves in mammals hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) mediated transcriptional regulation, cytochrome oxidase (COX) subunit adjustment and nitric oxide (NO) as a mediator in vasodilatation and oxygen homeostasis. In plants, NO, mainly derived from nitrite, is also an important signalling molecule. We describe here a mechanism by which mitochondrial respiration is adjusted to prevent a tissue to reach anoxia. During pea seed germination, the internal atmosphere was strongly hypoxic due to very active mitochondrial respiration. There was no sign of fermentation, suggesting a down-regulation of O-2 consumption near anoxia. Mitochondria were found to finely regulate their surrounding O-2 level through a nitrite-dependent NO production, which was ascertained using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spin trapping of NO within membranes. At low O-2, nitrite is reduced into NO, likely at complex III, and in turn reversibly inhibits COX, provoking a rise to a higher steady state level of oxygen. Since NO can be re-oxidized into nitrite chemically or by COX, a nitrite-NO pool is maintained, preventing mitochondrial anoxia. Such an evolutionarily conserved mechanism should have an important role for oxygen homeostasis in tissues undergoing hypoxia. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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