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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 96, 959-972, Copyright © 1990 by The Rockefeller University Press
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CE Amorena, TJ Wilding, JK Manchester and A Roos
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
We examined the effect of depolarization on intracellular pH (pHi) of normal (pHi approximately 7.37) and acidified (pHi 5.90-6.70) frog semitendinosus muscle using microelectrodes. A small bundle was superfused with a Na(+)-free buffered solution (10 mM HEPES, 100% O2, pH 7.35) containing either 2.5 or 25 mM K+. An NH4Cl prepulse was used to lower pHi. At normal pHi, depolarization usually produced a slight (0.04) alkalinization, followed by a fall in pHi of approximately 0.2. In contrast, in all 25 acidified bundles pHi rose by 0.1-0.7. The rise was greater the lower the initial pHi. It could be imitated by caffeine and blocked by tetracaine and thus was, most likely, initiated by release of calcium. We ascribed the alkalinization to hydrolysis of phosphocreatine (PCr); 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene abolished it. Biochemical analysis on fibers at the peak of alkalinization showed PCr to be reduced by one-half, while PCr in normal fibers that had been depolarized for the same period (4-6 min) showed no change. We postulated that low pHi slows glycolysis with its associated ATP formation by reducing glycogenolysis and particularly by reducing conversion of fructose-6-phosphate to fructose-1,6-diphosphate through inhibition of phosphofructokinase (PFK), an enzyme which is known to be highly pH sensitive. Thus PCr hydrolysis would be required to replace much of the hydrolyzed ATP. This postulated effect on PFK is in agreement with the finding that glucose-6-phosphate (in near- equilibrium with fructose-6-phosphate) was increased nearly fivefold in the depolarized acid fibers, but not in the depolarized normal fibers. However, fructose-1,6-diphosphate also increased significantly; 3- phosphoglycerate was not affected. This suggests an additional acid- induced bottleneck between the latter two substrates. We measured the intrinsic buffering power, beta, of frog semitendinosus muscle with small pulses of NH4Cl. It was found to vary with pHi according to beta = 144.6 - 17.2 (pHi).
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