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. 1988 May;87(1):109–115. doi: 10.1104/pp.87.1.109

Oxaloacetate and Malate Transport by Plant Mitochondria 1

Cornelia Zoglowek 1, Silke Krömer 1, Hans W Heldt 1
PMCID: PMC1054707  PMID: 16666083

Abstract

The permeability of mitochondria from pea (Pisum sativum L. var Kleine Rheinländerin) leaves, etiolated pea shoots, and potato (Solanum tuberosum) tuber for malate, oxaloacetate, and other dicarboxylates was investigated by measurement of mitochondrial swelling in isoosmolar solutions of the above mentioned metabolites. For the sake of comparison, parallel experiments were also performed with rat liver mitochondria. Unlike the mammalian mitochondria, the plant mitochondria showed only little swelling in ammonium malate plus phosphate media but a dramatic increase of swelling on the addition of valinomycin. Similar results were obtained with oxaloacetate, maleate, fumarate, succinate, and malonate. n-Butylmalonate and phenylsuccinate, impermeant inhibitors of malate transport in mammalian mitochondria, had no marked inhibitory effect on valinomycin-dependent malate and oxaloacetate uptake of the plant mitochondria. The swelling of plant mitochondria in malate plus valinomycin was strongly inhibited by oxaloacetate, at a concentration ratio of oxaloacetate/malate of 10−3. From these findings it is concluded: (a) In a malate-oxaloacetate shuttle transferring redox equivalents from the mitochondrial matrix to the cytosol, malate and oxaloacetate are each transported by electrogenic uniport, probably linked to each other for the sake of charge compensation. (b) The transport of malate between the mitochondrial matrix and the cytosol is controlled by the oxaloacetate level in such a way that a redox gradient can be maintained between the NADH/NAD systems in the matrix and the cytosol. (c) The malate-oxaloacetate shuttle functions mainly in the export of malate from the mitochondria, whereas the import of malate as a respiratory substrate may proceed by the classical malate-phosphate antiport.

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