Mitochondrial calcium flux in temperature-sensitive mutants of |
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Authors: | N O'Byrne-Ring A Behan EJ Duke |
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Abstract: | The mechanisms of mitochondrial calcium flux in normal and temperature-sensitive mutants of
were investigated. Adult mitochondria from all stocks, when analysed with an oxygen electrode, gave respiration rates which exhibited normal responses to adenosine diphosphate and uncoupling agents but no stimulation by calcium. In contrast, calcium stimulates the respiration rate of normal larval mitochondria particularly those of the second instar. This is not evident in second instar mitochondria from the temperature sensitive mutants. There is a rapid accumulation of mitochondrial calcium during normal larval ontogenesis. The levels in temperature-sensitive second instar mitochondria are higher than those of any of the normal larval stages. Adult mitochondria in all cases contain very low levels of calcium. The amount of calcium taken up by mitochondria of second instar temperature-sensitive mutants is lower than that of normal. This may reflect the higher endogenous levels already present in the former. The implications of these variations in calcium metabolism for the behavioural defects of the temperature sensitive mutants is discussed. |
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Keywords: | Temperature-sensitivity mutation mitochondrion Calcium regulation behaviour |
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