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Hypotonic fragility of outer membrane and activation of external pathway of NADH oxidation in rat liver mitochondria are increased with age.

Abstract：

:Great importance is attached to structural and functional deterioration of mitochondria as a reason for ageing of an organism; the attention of many scientists has been concentrated on such questions as age changes in the system of oxidative phosphorylation, damage of mitochondrial DNA by free radicals generated in the respiratory chain and inclusion of some fragments of mitochondrial DNA into the nuclear genome. Mitochondrial high amplitude swelling in a cell under some extreme conditions can possibly play a very important role in mechanisms of deterioration of energy transformation function, in activation of lipid peroxidation and mitochondrial DNA damage as a result of outer membrane disruption and release of enzymes from the intermembrane space (e.g. superoxide dismutase amd adenylate kinase). In this work the age changes of the hypotonic fragility of the outer membrane of rat liver mitochondria and the activation of the external, rotenone-insensitive pathway of NADH oxidation have been examined. It is shown that the obligatory condition for activation of rotenone-insensitive NADH oxidation is a break in the outer membrane and that the rate of NADH oxidation substantially increases in the presence of physiological concentrations of Mg2+ which cause a multiple increase in the affinity of the inner membrane to cytochrome c. Research on the rate of rotenone-insensitive NADH oxidation with respect to the osmotic pressure, the ionic strength of the medium, the presence of Mg2+ ions and cytochrome c in the medium has demonstrated a considerable increase in the hypotonic fragility of the outer membrane of liver mitochondria with age in male rats. In female rats the age changes were insignificant. It is supposed that the damage to the outer membrane of mitochondria in cells can serve as one of the possible explanations of both decrease in the reliability of an aged organism under extreme conditions and sex differences of life-span.

journal_name

Mech Ageing Dev

journal_title

Mechanisms of ageing and development

authors

Lemeshko VV,Shekh VE

doi

10.1016/0047-6374(93)90153-i

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1993-05-01 00:00:00

pages

221-33

issue

1-3

eissn

0047-6374

issn

1872-6216

pii

0047-6374(93)90153-I

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Hypotonic fragility of outer membrane and activation of external pathway of NADH oxidation in rat liver mitochondria are increased with age.