Aquaporin-8-facilitated mitochondrial ammonia transport

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• 作者：Le ; ro R. Soria ; Elena Fanelli ; Nicola Altamura ; Maria Svelto ; Raú ; l A. Marinelli ; Giuseppe Calamita
• 关键词：Inner mitochondrial membrane ; Ammonia transport ; Yeast expression system ; Aqua-ammoniaporin ; Liver
• 刊名：Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：5 March 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：393
• 期：2
• 页码：217-221
• 全文大小：384 K

文摘

Aquaporin-8 (AQP8) is a membrane channel permeable to water and ammonia. As AQP8 is expressed in the inner mitochondrial membrane of several mammalian tissues, we studied the effect of the AQP8 expression on the mitochondrial transport of ammonia. Recombinant rat AQP8 was expressed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The presence of AQP8 in the inner membrane of yeast mitochondria was demonstrated by subcellular fractionation and immunoblotting analysis. The ammonia transport was determined in isolated mitochondria by stopped flow light scattering using formamide as ammonia analog. We found that the presence of AQP8 increased by threefold mitochondrial formamide transport. AQP8-facilitated mitochondrial formamide transport in rat native tissue was confirmed in liver (a mitochondrial AQP8-expressing tissue) vs. brain (a mitochondrial AQP8 non-expressing tissue). Comparative studies indicated that the AQP8-mediated mitochondrial movement of formamide was markedly higher than that of water. Together, our data suggest that ammonia diffusional transport is a major function for mitochondrial AQP8.