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Regulation of the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide pool size in liver: mechanism and metabolic role

JR Aprille
Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155.

The ATP-Mg/Pi carrier in liver mitochondria can catalyze the exchange of ATP-Mg on one side of the inner membrane for Pi on the other. This mechanism allows for net uptake or release of ATP-Mg from mitochondria and thus regulates the matrix ATP + ADP + AMP pool size. In isolated mitochondria, carrier activity is stimulated by submicromolar concentrations of calcium, suggesting that calcium may regulate transport rates in vivo. Whenever the carrier is active, the direction of any net changes in the matrix adenine nucleotide pool size is determined mainly by the extent to which the prevailing ATP-Mg concentration gradient deviates from an equilibrium related to delta pH through the phosphate concentration gradient. Thus it seems that in the cell, energy status (reflected by ATP:ADP ratios in the cytoplasm and matrix) determines whether calcium-mediated hormone activation of the carrier will produce an increase or a decrease in the matrix adenine nucleotide content. Consequent variations in the absolute concentrations of ATP, ADP, and AMP in the matrix may contribute to the selective regulation of those metabolic activities in the cell that have adenine nucleotide dependent steps localized to the mitochondrial compartment (gluconeogenesis, urea synthesis, mitochondrial biogenesis, and even oxidative phosphorylation).

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