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1 Departments of Physiology, Anesthesiology, and Pharmacology/Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53295; and 2 Department of Chemistry, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Pulmonary arterial endothelial cells possess transplasma membrane electron transport (TPMET) systems that transfer intracellular reducing equivalents to extracellular electron acceptors. As one aspect of determining cellular mechanisms involved in one such TPMET system in pulmonary arterial endothelial cells in culture, glycolysis was inhibited by treatment with iodoacetate (IOA) or by replacing the glucose in the cell medium with 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG). TPMET activity was measured as the rate of reduction of the extracellular electron acceptor polymer toluidine blue O polyacrylamide. Intracellular concentrations of NADH, NAD+, NADPH, and NADP+ were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography of KOH cell extracts. IOA decreased TPMET activity to 47% of control activity concomitant with a decrease in the NADH/NAD+ ratio to 34% of the control level, without a significant change in the NADPH/NADP+ ratio. 2-DG decreased TPMET activity to 53% of control and decreased both NADH/NAD+ and NADPH/NADP+ ratios to 51% and 55%, respectively, of control levels. When lactate was included in the medium along with the inhibitors, the effects of IOA and 2-DG on both TPMET activity and the NADPH/NADP+ ratios were prevented. The results suggest that cellular redox status is a determinant of pulmonary arterial endothelial cell TPMET activity, with TPMET activity more highly correlated with the poise of the NADH/NAD+ redox pair.
lung; endothelium; pyridine nucleotides
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