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  • Title: Mitochondrial cholesterol content and membrane properties in porcine myocardial ischemia.
    Author: Rouslin W, MacGee J, Gupte S, Wesselman A, Epps DE.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1982 Feb; 242(2):H254-9. PubMed ID: 6461257.
    Abstract:
    Regional myocardial ischemia was produced in anesthetized pigs by occluding the left anterior descending coronary artery. Mitochondria were prepared from both normally perfused and ischemic myocardium after 2 h of occlusion. Mitochondria from the ischemic area exhibited an 89% increase in cholesterol content from 32.7 +/- 1.9 (control) to 62.0 +/- 0.47 (ischemic) nmol/mg protein with no change in either total phospholipid content or in membrane fatty acid composition. This increase in mitochondrial membrane cholesterol was accompanied by an increase in membrane microviscosity as indicated by increased fluorescence polarization using the fluorescent membrane probe, 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene. In these same experiments the Arrhenius plot discontinuity temperature of oligomycin-sensitive adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) activity fell from 20.0 to 14.2 degrees C. Our results suggest that, during the myocardial ischemic process in pigs, there is an intracellular redistribution of free cholesterol that produces a marked increase in mitochondrial membrane cholesterol content. This appears to produce an altered mitochondrial membrane lipid bilayer packing, resulting in increased membrane microviscosity and, possibly, altered inner membrane ATPase function. Intracellular cholesterol redistribution may thus contribute to the cell membrane damage that occurs during the myocardial ischemic process.
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