Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 72, Issue 2 521-528, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Substrate regulation of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in hypercapnic rabbit muscle

S. Nioka, Z. Argov, G. P. Dobson, R. E. Forster, H. V. Subramanian, R. L. Veech and B. Chance
Department of Biochemistry/Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6089.

Endurance muscle performance is highly dependent on ATP production from mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. To study the role of the mitochondrial oxidative enzymes in muscle fatigue, we analyzed the relationship between the concentrations of substrates associated with ATP synthesis and the muscle performance of electrically stimulated rabbit muscle under CO2-induced acidosis. Two different conditions of pacing-induced muscle performance were produced in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscle groups in anesthetized rabbits by stimulating the sciatic nerve submaximally at two frequencies. Phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance was used to measure ATP, phosphocreatine, and Pi and to provide data for a calculation of intracellular pH and free ADP. To induce acidosis, the animal was ventilated with 20% CO2. The administration of CO2 effectively reduced the intracellular pH from 6.9 to 6.7 and reduced the isometric tension-time integral (TTI) to below half the value measured in normocapnia at the low pacing frequency. A twofold increase in the pacing frequency resulted in a doubling of the TTI in normocapnia and a tripling of TTI in hypercapnia. The increases in TTI corresponded with increases in free ADP and Pi concentrations. Under the various conditions, all free ADP values were near the in vitro Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) of ADP. The Michaelis-Menten relationship of the oxidative phosphorylative enzymes was applied to the change in substrate concentrations with respect to TTI. From this relationship we observed that the in vivo Km of free ADP was 26 microM, which is close to the in nitro Km, and that Km and maximal reaction velocity did not change under hypercapnia and increased pacing frequency.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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