Myoglobin-mediated oxygen delivery to mitochondria of isolated cardiac myocytes.
AUTOR(ES)
Wittenberg, B A
RESUMO
Myoglobin-mediated oxygen delivery to intracellular mitochondria is demonstrated in cardiac myocytes isolated from the hearts of mature rats. Myocytes are held at high ambient oxygen pressure, 40-340 torr (5-45 kPa); sarcoplasmic myoglobin is fully oxygenated. In this condition oxygen availability does not limit respiratory rate; myoglobin-facilitated diffusion contributes no additional oxygen flux and, since oxygen consumption is measured in steady states, the storage function of myoglobin vanishes. Carbon monoxide, introduced stepwise, displaces oxygen from intracellular oxymyoglobin without altering the optical spectrum of the largely oxidized intracellular mitochondria. A large part, about one-third, of the steady-state oxygen uptake is abolished by carbon monoxide blockade of myoglobin oxygenation. The myoglobin-dependent component of the oxygen uptake decreases linearly with decreasing fraction of intracellular oxymyoglobin, with a slope near unity. Studies using inhibitors of mitochondrial electron transport indicate that myoglobin-delivered oxygen uptake depends on electron flow through the mitochondrial electron transport chain. We conclude that cardiac mitochondria accept two additive simultaneous flows of oxygen: a flow of dissolved oxygen to cytochrome oxidase and a flow of myoglobin-bound oxygen to a mitochondrial terminus. Myoglobin-mediated oxygen delivery supports ATP generation by heart cells at physiological ambient oxygen pressure.
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