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Mitochondrial deficiencies - any thoughts Aubrey? (fwd)

shall sydney.shall at esbs.u-strasbg.fr
Wed May 19 07:15:10 EST 1999


> This paper is doubly interesting to me, because theere is a paper in the new
> PNAS by Dawson and others, which shows that endogeneous, neural NO is
> suffiecient to combine with oxygen radicals from disturbed mitochondria, to
> generate peroxynitrite in quantities that can lead to Parkinsons Disease.
> This seems to provide experimental evidence suggesting that mildly
> dysfunctional mitochondria, peerhaps in conjunction with over-stimulated
> macrophages may make sufficient peroxynitrite in a chronic manner to
> seriously contribute to ageing in a variety of tissues.  (This idea was
> originally formulated by Paolo Giacomoni)

Sydney

>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 18 May 1999 16:38:10 -0700
> From: "Paul S. Brookes." <brookes at uab.edu>
> To: ageing at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
> Subject: Mitochondrial deficiencies - any thoughts Aubrey?
>
> Doug Wallace has just published a very interesting paper (PNAS 96,
> 4820-4825) in which they show that mice deficient in the heart/muscle
> isoform of the adenine nucleotide translocase (ANT) exhibit higher levels
> of oxidative stress.  They show that this is due to increased mitochondrial
> production of H2O2.  SOD and other antioxidant enzymes are up-regulated in
> response.
>
> Here's my alternative explanation....
>
> The ANT is an essential component of the permeability transition pore
> (Andrew Halestrap's work).  Therefore without the ANT, pore operation is
> affected, so mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis will be upset.  If one believes
> that pore opening and subsequent cytochrome c release are essential
> components of the apoptotic cascade, then these cells will have an impaired
> apoptotic ability.  This means the tissue will not be able to dispose of
> cells that contain "high ROS producing" mitochondria, a la Aubrey's theory
> on mito's and cell death.
>
> In addition it could explain their observation that ROS production by the
> mitochondria in vitro is higher - the tissue gradually accumulates a
> population of ROS producing mitochondria that it has no way of getting rid
> of.  This is the only way I can see that loss of the ANT would cause
> increased ROS production by mito's, as ANT does not have a lot of control
> over ox-phos, so knocking it out doesn't necessarily affect respiratory (or
> ROS producing) activity that much.
>
> I am of course assuming that pore opening and cyt-c release are essential
> events in apoptosis, which of course may not be the case, depending on
> which papers you read and what cell type it was done in, and whether it was
> a transformed cell line or primary culture - but hey, thats another
> minefield which I'd rather not get into!
>
> Comments please?
> Paul
>
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-- Dr. Sydney SHALL
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