Table 2. Mitochondrial oxygen consumption (nmol O 2/min.mg prot) in in wild type flies (wt) and flies expressing (AOX/da-GAL4), or not expressing AOX (AOX/–).
AOX flies are from line F6. For equivalent data for line F24 see Supplementary Table 1. Results are presented as mean ± SEM. Number of independent samples in parentheses.
| wt | AOX/- | AOX/da-GAL4 | ANOVA | ||||
| males | females | males | females | males | females | ||
| Pyruvate + Proline | |||||||
| State 4 | 35 ± 7 (9) | 42 ± 9 (10) | 32 ± 7 (8) | 35 ± 6 (9) | 35 ± 5 (7) | 46 ± 5 (10) | NS |
| State 3 | 410 ± 45 (9) | 493 ± 48 (10) | 419 ± 41 (8) | 495 ± 40 (9) | 488 ± 54 (7) | 491±35 (10) | NS |
| RCI | 16 ± 5 (9) | 17 ± 5 (10) | 15 ± 3 (8) | 19 ± 4 (9) | 15 ± 2 (7) | 15 ± 1 (10) | NS |
| sn-glycerol-3-Phosphate + rotenone | |||||||
| State 4 | 65 ± 16 (6) | 88 ± 27 (6) | 132 ± 28 (8) | 112 ± 12 (7) | 98± 29 (5) | 104 ± 14 (8) | NS |
| State 3 | 255 ± 58 (8) | 273 ± 35 (6) | 254 ± 27 (8) | 288 ± 45 (7) | 241 ± 26 (5) | 276 ± 44 (8) | NS |
| RCI | 2.1 ± 0.2 (8) | 2.2 ± 0.4 (6) | 2.3 ± 0.7 (8) | 2.3 ± 0.4 (7) | 2.4 ± 0.7(5) | 2.9 ± 0.5 (8) | NS |