Reduced Ca2+ uptake by mitochondria in pyruvate dehydrogenase-deficient human diploid fibroblasts

The American Journal of Physiology
R A PaduaS A Thayer

Abstract

Physiological and pathological Ca2+ loads are thought to be taken up by mitochondria via a process dependent on aerobic metabolism. We sought to determine whether human diploid fibroblasts from a patient with an inherited defect in pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) exhibit a decreased ability to sequester cytosolic Ca2+ into mitochondria. Mobilization of Ca2+ stores with bradykinin (BK) increased the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]c) to comparable levels in control and PDH-deficient fibroblasts. In normal fibroblasts transfected with plasmid DNA encoding mitochondrion-targeted apoaequorin, BK elicited an increase in Ca2(+)-dependent aequorin luminescence corresponding to an increase in the mitochondrial Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]mt) of 2.0 +/- 0.2 microM. The mitochondrial uncoupling agent carbonyl cyanide p-(trifluoromethoxy)phenylhydrazone blocked the BK-induced [Ca2+]mt increase, although it did not affect the [Ca2+]c transient. Basal [Ca2+]c and [Ca2+]mt in control and PDH-deficient cells were similar. However, confocal imaging of the potential-sensitive dye JC-1 indicated that the percentage of highly polarized mitochondria was reduced from 30 +/- 1% in normal cells to 19 +/- 2% in the PDH-deficient fibroblasts. BK-elicite...Continue Reading

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