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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 200, Issue 6 975-988, Copyright © 1997 by Company of Biologists


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Reaction-diffusion analysis of the effects of temperature on high-energy phosphate dynamics in goldfish skeletal muscle

MJ Hubley, BR Locke and TS Moerland
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-3050, USA.

Thermal acclimation results in dramatic changes in the fractional volume of mitochondria within skeletal muscle of teleost fish. We investigated the hypothesis that changes in mitochondrial volume represent a compensatory response to temperature-induced changes in intracellular diffusion coefficients (D) of the high-energy phosphate compounds ATP and creatine phosphate (PCr). Using 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we determined DPCr and DATP in goldfish (Carassius auratus) skeletal muscle at 25 degrees C and 5 degrees C: DPCr was 3.28 +/- 0.18 x 10(-6) cm2s-1 at 25 degrees C and 2.00 +/- 0.90 x 10(-6) cm2s-1 at 5 degrees C: DATP was 2.13 +/- 0.16 x 10(-6) cm2s-1 at 25 degrees C and was estimated to be 1.30 x 10(-6) cm2s-1 at 5 degrees C. There was no evidence for an effect of acclimation temperature or fiber type on DATP or DPCr. A mathematical reaction-diffusion model was used to calculate profiles of [ATP], [PCr] and the free energy of ATP hydrolysis (delta GATP) in activated goldfish muscle fibers at 5 degrees C and 25 degrees C. The results showed spatial and temporal constancy of [ATP], [PCr] and delta GATP in red fibers at both temperatures, regardless of changes in acclimation temperature or mitochondrial density. The model also showed spatial and temporal constancy of [ATP] in white fibers at 5 degrees C and 25 degrees C, but gradients in [PCr] and delta GATP developed in white fibers under all conditions of temperature and acclimation temperature. These gradients were attenuated in cold-acclimated animals by cold-induced increases in mitochondrial density. However, the model shows that the proximal stimulus for temperature-induced changes in mitochondrial volume density in muscle is not a disruption in intracellular diffusion of high-energy phosphates.


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