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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 279: E941-E946, 2000;
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Vol. 279, Issue 4, E941-E946, October 2000

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Increased mitochondrial proton leak in skeletal muscle mitochondria of UCP1-deficient mice

Shadi Monemdjou1, Wolfgang E. Hofmann2, Leslie P. Kozak2, and Mary-Ellen Harper1

1 Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, Canada; and 2 Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808

Mice having targeted inactivation of uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) are cold sensitive but not obese (Enerbäck S, Jacobsson A, Simpson EM, Guerra C, Yamashita H, Harper M-E, and Kozak LP. Nature 387: 90-94, 1997). Recently, we have shown that proton leak in brown adipose tissue (BAT) mitochondria from UCP1-deficient mice is insensitive to guanosine diphosphate (GDP), a well known inhibitor of UCP1 activity (Monemdjou S, Kozak LP, and Harper M-E. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 276: E1073-E1082, 1999). Moreover, despite a fivefold increase of UCP2 mRNA in BAT of UCP1-deficient mice, we found no differences in the overall kinetics of this GDP-insensitive proton leak between UCP1-deficient mice and controls. Based on these findings, which show no adaptive increase in UCP1-independent leak in BAT, we hypothesized that adaptive thermogenesis may be occurring in other tissues of the UCP1-deficient mouse (e.g., skeletal muscle), thus allowing them to maintain their normal resting metabolic rate, feed efficiency, and adiposity. Here, we report on the overall kinetics of the mitochondrial proton leak, respiratory chain, and ATP turnover in skeletal muscle mitochondria from UCP1-deficient and heterozygous control mice. Over a range of mitochondrial protonmotive force (Delta p) values, leak-dependent oxygen consumption is higher in UCP1-deficient mice compared with controls. State 4 (maximal leak-dependent) respiration rates are also significantly higher in the mitochondria of mice deficient in UCP1, whereas state 4 Delta p is significantly lower. No significant differences in state 3 respiration rates or Delta p values were detected between the two groups. Thus the altered kinetics of the mitochondrial proton leak in skeletal muscle of UCP1-deficient mice indicate a thermogenic mechanism favoring the lean phenotype of the UCP1-deficient mouse.

uncoupling protein(s); thermogenesis; oxidative phosphorylation; top-down elasticity analysis; obesity


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