Coupling membranes as energy-transmitting cables. I. Filamentous mitochondria in fibroblasts and mitochondrial clusters in cardiomyocytes.
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An hypothesis considering mitochondria as intracellular power-transmitting protonic cables was tested in human fibroblasts where mitochondria are thin and long and in rat cardiomyocytes where they show cluster organization. Mitochondria in the cell were specifically stained with fluorescent-penetrating cation ethylrhodamine, which electrophoretically accumulates in the mitochondrial matrix. A 40-micron-long mitochondrial filament of fibroblast was illuminated by a very narrow (less than or equal to 0.5 micron) laser beam to induce local damage of the mitochondrial membranes. Such a treatment was found to induce quenching of the ethylrhodamine fluorescence in the entire filament. According to the electron microscope examination, the laser-treated filament retained its continuity after the laser illumination. Other mitochondrial filaments (some of which were localized at a distance less than 10 micron from the laser-treated one) remained fluorescent. In a cell where mitochondrial filaments seemed to be united in a network, laser illumination of one filament resulted in fluorescence quenching in the whole network, whereas fluorescence of small mitochondria not connected with the network was unaffected. The illumination of cardiomyocyte was found to result in the fluorescence quenching not only in a laser-illuminated mitochondrion but also in a large cluster of organelles composed of many mitochondria. Electron microscopy showed that all the mitochondria in the cluster change from the orthodox to the condensed state. It was also found that mitochondria in the cluster are connected to one another with specific junctions. If a mitochondrion did not form junctions with a quenched cluster, its fluorescence was not decreased even when this mitochondrion was localized close to an illuminated one. The size of the mitochondrial cluster may be as long as 50 micron. The cluster is formed by branched chains of contacting mitochondria, which may be defined as Streptio mitochondriale. In the cardiomyocyte there are several mitochondrial clusters or, alternatively, the quenched cluster is a result of decomposition of a supercluster uniting all the mitochondria of the cell. Cluster organization of mitochondria could also be revealed when a single mitochondrion was punctured in situ with a microcapillary. The obtained data are in agreement with the idea that mitochondrial junctions are H+ permeable so that, within the cluster, delta psi may be transmitted from one mitochondrion to another. The above results are consistent with the assumption that mitochondrial filaments or networks represent a united electrical system.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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This operation is unique to myotubes; previous reports on cardiac myocytes or fibroblasts suggest there are several independent clusters of electrically connected mitochondria per cell.
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- Authors
- Amchenkova, A. A., Bakeeva, L. E., Chentsov, Y. S., Skulachev, V. P., & Zorov, D. B.
- Affiliations
- Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU)
- Venue
- The Journal of cell biology
- Publisher
- Rockefeller University Press
- Published
- 1988-08-01
- Volume
- 107
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 481-495
- ISSN
- 0021-9525 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-8140
- PMC
- PMC2115217
- OpenAlex
- W2005150915
- Cited by
- 284
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 1.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- The Journal of Cell Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Keywords
- mitochondrial network, proton permeability, mitochondrial membrane damage, mitochondrial membrane potential, fibroblasts, cardiomyocytes
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cells, Cultured, Fibroblasts, Humans, Intracellular Membranes, Lasers, Membrane Potentials, Microscopy, Electron, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Mitochondria, Mitochondria, Heart, Myocardium, Skin Physiological Phenomena, Rats
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