Altered relationship between protonmotive force and respiration rate in non‐phosphorylating liver mitochondria isolated from rats of different thyroid hormone status
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 178 (2), 511-518
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb14477.x
Abstract
We have determined the relationship between rate of respiration and protonmotive force in oligomycin-inhibited liver mitochondria isolated from euthyroid, hypothyroid and hyperthyroid rats. Respiration rate was titrated with the respiratory-chain inhibitor malonate. At any given respiration rate mitochondria isolated from hypothyroid rats had a protonmotive force greater than mitochondria isolated from euthryoid controls, and mitochondria isolated from hyperthyroid rats had a protonmotive force less than mitochondria isolated from euthyroid controls. In the absence of malonate mitochondrial respiration rate increased in the order hypothyroid < euthyroid < hyperthyroid, while protonmotive force increased in the order hyperthyroid < euthyroid < hypothyroid. These findings are consistent with a thyroid-hormone-induced increase in the proton conductance of the inner mitochondiral membrane or a decrease in the H+/O ratio of the respiratory chain at any given protonmotive force. Thus the altered proton conductance or H+/O ratio of mitochondria isolated from rats of different thyroid hormone status controls the respiration rate required to balance the backflow of protons across the inner mitochondrial membrane. We discuss the possible relevance of these findings to the control of state 3 and state 4 respiration by thyroid hormone.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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