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  • Title: Arginine uptake by isolated rat liver mitochondria.
    Author: Freedland RA, Crozier GL, Hicks BL, Meijer AJ.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1984 Dec 20; 802(3):407-12. PubMed ID: 6150729.
    Abstract:
    The question of arginine uptake by mitochondria is important in that arginine is an allosteric effector of N-acetylglutamate synthetase. Thus, changes in mitochondrial arginine concentration have the potential for acutely modifying levels of N-acetylglutamate, a compound necessary for maximal activity of carbamyl phosphate synthesis. Mitochondria were isolated from chow-fed rats, incubated with [guanido-14C]arginine and were centrifuged through silicon oil into perchloric acid for determination of intramitochondrial metabolites. Arginine was separated from urea by cation-exchange resin. Mitochondrial water space was determined by [14C]urea arising from arginase activity associated with the mitochondrial preparations. Extramatrix space was determined by parallel incubations with [inulin-14C]carboxylic acid or [14C]sucrose. There was considerable degradation of arginine by arginase associated with the mitochondrial preparation. This was inhibited by 7 mM ornithine and 7 mM lysine. Arginine was concentrated intramitochondrially to 4-times the extramitochondrial levels. The concentration ratio was decreased in the presence of ornithine and lysine but not with citrulline, NH4Cl, glutamate, glutamate or leucine. No uptake was observed when mitochondria were incubated at 0 degree C. Mitochondria did not concentrate citrulline.
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