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Stimulation of mitochondrial pyruvate transport in rat renal cortex by phenylephrine
1Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
Abstract:
Phenylephrine effect on liver and kidney cortex mitochondrial pyruvate concentration was investigated. While in liver the alpha 1-adrenergic agent produced a decrease in pyruvate content, a significant increase was observed in kidney, even in the presence of 0.5 mM alpha-cyano-4-hydroxy-cinnamate. These changes were not observed when pyruvate was formed by intramitochondrial transamination of alanine, suggesting a role for the pyruvate transport across mitochondrial membranes in the regulation of mitochondrial pyruvate metabolism in kidney cortex. This was corroborated measuring the phenylephrine effect on pyruvate carboxylation.