A human pediatric cardiomyocyte cell culture model of chronic cyanosis was used to assess the effects of low oxygen tension on mitochondrial enzyme activity to address the postoperative increase in lactate and decreased ATP in the myocardium and the high incidence of low-output failure with restoration of normal oxygen tension, after technically successful corrective cardiac surgery. Chronically hypoxic cells (PO2 = 40 mmHg for 7 days) exhibited significantly reduced activities for pyruvate dehydrogenase, cytochrome-c oxidase, succinate cytochrome c reductase, succinate dehydrogenase, and citrate synthase. The activity of NADH-cytochrome c reductase was unaffected. Lactate production and the lactate-to-pyruvate ratio were significantly greater in hypoxic cardiomyocytes. Western and Northern analysis demonstrated a decrease in the levels of various mRNA and corresponding polypeptides in hypoxic cells. Thus hypoxia influences mitochondrial metabolism through acute and chronic adaptive mechanisms, reflecting allosteric (posttranscriptional) and transcriptional modulation. Transcriptional downregulation of key mitochondrial enzyme systems can explain the insufficient myocardial aerobic metabolism and low-output failure in children with cyanotic heart disease after cardiac surgery.

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