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  • The study explores how respiratory chain inhibitors and ATP-synthetase blockers affect calcium (Ca2+) and potassium (K+) transport in mitochondria when the medium is acidified with phosphate or arsenate.
  • Evidence suggests that K+ and Ca2+ movements are linked to hydrogen ion (H+) leakage through the ATPase proton channel under these conditions.
  • It also highlights that cation transport at low pH may involve processes like lipid peroxidation and hydrolysis, suggesting a regulatory mechanism for ion transport that connects oxidative phosphorylation with lipid changes.

Article Abstract

The effects of the respiratory chain inhibitors as well as those of the inhibitors and substrates of ATP-synthetase in Ca2+ and K+ transport induced in the mitochondria upon the medium acidification in the presence of phosphate or arsenate, were investigated. Evidence has been obtained suggesting that under the experimental conditions used the transmembrane fluxes of K+ and Ca2+ are paralleled with H+ leakage through the proton channel of ATPase. It was found also that the system inducing cation fluxes at low pH values included peroxidation and hydrolysis of phospholipids. A scheme of regulation of ion transport in the mitochondria involving oxidative phosphorylation and oxidation and hydrolysis of lipids is proposed.

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