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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 201, Issue 16 2455-2460, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists

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Are there distinct subcellular populations of mitochondria in rainbow trout red muscle?

BJ Battersby and CD Moyes
Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. moyesc@biology.queensu.ca.

Ultrastructural analysis typically shows vertebrate striated muscles to possess mitochondria residing primarily in two locations. One population is interlaced throughout the myofibrils and another occurs directly beneath the cell membrane. The two populations of mitochondria can be separated and studied in vitro. Subsarcolemmal mitochondria (SSmt) are released by mechanical shearing of the tissue, whereas protease treatment is required to release the intermyofibrillar population (IMFmt). These methods were applied to rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) red muscle to investigate the possible existence of distinct populations in this tissue. The two populations were very similar in mitochondrial DNA content (mtDNA mg-1 mitochondrial protein) and enzymatically (activities of carnitine palmitoyl transferase, &bgr ;-hydroxyacyl CoA dehydrogenase, complex I, citrate synthase, cytochrome c oxidase expressed per milligram of mitochondrial protein). Respiration rates were the same for pyruvate and succinate, but IMFmt oxidized palmitoyl carnitine 26 % faster than SSmt (P<0.05). Apart from these minor differences in fatty acyl carnitine oxidation rates, no differences in biochemical or genetic properties were detected between populations. The lack of distinct subcellular populations in fish, in contrast to the situation in mammalian striated muscle, probably relates to the high mitochondrial volume density in fish red muscle.


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