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rek,1,21Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon; and 2Department of Membrane Transport Biophysics (No. 75), Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Submitted 26 July 2005 ; accepted in final form 30 August 2005
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ATP-sensitive potassium channels; diazoxide; 5-hydroxydecanoate; volume regulation; potassium channel openers; cardiac ischemia; uncoupling; cytochrome c
Matrix swelling is a simple osmotic consequence of net uptake of K+ and phosphate into the matrix. The K+/H+ antiporter is designed to balance K+ uptake and thereby provide volume homeostasis (22). We have proposed that the K+/H+ antiporter can only be activated by increased volume itself, so it follows that increasing K+ influx should cause volume to move to a higher steady-state value with greater underlying K+ cycling, which, in turn, will lead to increased energy dissipation (uncoupling). The concept that uncoupling through K+ cycling is necessarily associated with matrix swelling has not previously been explored.
It has been known for some time that scavengers of reactive oxygen species (ROS) block cardioprotection (3, 10, 42, 44), leading Downey and coworkers (42) to propose that mitoKATP opening is a trigger of cardioprotection via mitoKATP-dependent ROS signaling. Our finding that mitoKATP opening leads to a moderate increase in mitochondrial production of ROS in cardiomyocytes (17, 43) has been confirmed in vascular smooth muscle cells (35) and perfused hearts (15, 39). Thus mitoKATP opening causes an increase in mitochondrial ROS, which serve as second messengers to activate kinases within the cardioprotective signaling pathway (11). We have hypothesized that the increased ROS production is caused by matrix alkalinization secondary to increased K+ influx (22); however, matrix alkalinization secondary to mitoKATP opening has not yet been demonstrated.
We have investigated the physiological consequences of increasing the K+ conductance of the inner membrane in isolated rat heart mitochondria, with the following results. 1) Steady-state perturbation experiments show that changes in K+ conductance cause mitochondrial volume to move between true steady states in which total K+ influx equals total K+ efflux via the K+/H+ antiporter. 2) The increased K+ cycling caused by mitoKATP opening leads to very limited uncoupling that is associated with matrix swelling. We have found a very narrow margin of safety between K+ uptake due to mitoKATP opening and K+ uptake that causes cytochrome c loss due to matrix swelling and outer membrane rupture. 3) K+ influx caused by mitoKATP opening is demonstrated directly, as measured with the matrix-loaded potassium binding fluorescent indicator (PBFI). 4) MitoKATP opening leads to matrix alkalinization, as measured with the matrix-loaded fluorescence probe BCECF. 5) The effects of ATP, diazoxide, and 5-HD on K+ flux in heart mitochondria are shown to be qualitatively and quantitatively the same when measured by four independent techniques: light scattering, respiration, K+ flux, and H+ flux. These results lay the groundwork for studies of how the direct physiological consequences of mitoKATP opening are translated into cardioprotection.
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Measurements of mitochondrial matrix volume and oxygen consumption.
Changes in mitochondrial matrix volume, which accompany net salt transport into mitochondria, were followed using a quantitative light-scattering technique. This technique is based on the observation that the inverse absorbance of the mitochondrial suspension (1/A), when corrected for the extrapolated value at infinite protein concentration (1/A
), is linearly related to matrix volume within well-defined regions (5, 19). Light-scattering changes of 0.1 mg/ml mitochondrial suspensions were followed at 520 nm and 25°C and are reported as 
, which is inverse absorbance normalized for protein concentration, Ps
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Mitochondria were suspended in a buffered salt medium containing K+, tetraethylammonium (TEA+), Na+, or Li+ salts of Cl– (120 mM); HEPES (10 mM); EGTA (0.1 mM); succinate (10 mM); and phosphate (Pi) (5 mM), pH 7.2. The osmolality of these media ranged between 275 and 280 mosmol/kgH2O. For assays of nonelectrolyte transport, mitochondria were suspended in the same medium, except that 264 mM erythritol or malonamide was substituted for the Cl– salt. All media also contained 0.5 mM MgCl2, 5 µM rotenone (to inhibit reverse electron transfer from complex II to complex I) and 0.67 µM oligomycin (to inhibit ATP synthesis by the FoF1-ATP synthase and the consequent decrease in membrane potential).
In our experiments, diazoxide (in DMSO) is always added to the suspension 2 s after mitochondria to ensure even distribution of this hydrophobic compound. It should also be noted that diazoxide is ineffective unless ATP is already present because the opener cannot open an already open channel. Similarly, 5-HD is ineffective unless ATP and an opener, diazoxide, are also present because 5-HD does not itself block the channel, but rather it prevents the opening effect of diazoxide (30). The same observations hold for cromakalim and glibenclamide. Light-scattering traces were initiated by addition of the mitochondrial suspension; the first 5–7 s of each trace, containing the transient from the mitochondrial addition, were omitted for clarity.
Oxygen consumption was measured with a Clark-type electrode (Yellow Springs Instruments) in a temperature-controlled chamber, by using the same buffered KCl medium described above and in the presence of ATP (200 µM). Oxygen concentration dissolved in our media was taken to be 480 ng atom O/ml at 25°C.
Measurement of K+ influx into PBFI-loaded mitochondria.
The final mitochondrial pellet was resuspended to 20 mg/ml in buffer A supplemented with 10 mM pyruvate and 10 mM malate. This suspension was incubated with 20 µM potassium binding fluorescent indicator acetoxymethyl ester (PBFI AM) under stirring for 10 min at 25°C. PBFI AM was dissolved in DMSO and mixed in a 2:1 ratio (vol/vol) with the nonionic surfactant pluronic F-127 before addition to the mitochondrial suspension. The mitochondrial suspension was then diluted to 5–7 mg/ml with TEA+ medium containing (in mM) 175 sucrose, 50 TEA-Cl, 10 HEPES, 5 pyruvate, 5 malate, 5 succinate, 5 Pi, 0.1 EGTA, and 0.5 MgCl2 and incubated for 2 min under stirring at 25°C. This incubation was designed to substitute matrix K+ with TEA+ to bring matrix [K+] into the sensitivity range of PBFI; under our experimental conditions, PBFI exhibited an apparent Kd for K+ of 
8 mM, determined as in Ref. 31. The brief period of TEA+ loading had no effect on respiration or respiratory control. The 2-ml suspension was then diluted with ice-cold buffer A to 35 ml and centrifuged twice at 10,000 g for 3 min. The resulting pellet was resuspended in buffer A at 30 mg/ml and kept on ice. For the assays, aliquots of this suspension (0.25 mg/ml) were transferred to 2 ml of the same potassium medium used for the light-scattering assay, at 25°C. PBFI fluorescence, which increases with increasing K+ concentration (31), was measured with an SLM/Aminco 8000C fluorescence spectrophotometer using an excitation ratio technique [excitation wavelength (
ex) = 340/380 nm, emission wavelength (em) = 500 nm] in which the signal at 340 nm corresponds to the maximal sensitivity of the probe to K+ and the signal at 380 nm corresponds to the isosbestic point of the probe. Ratiometric measurements reduce variations in the measured fluorescence intensity that may arise from competing factors, indicator concentration, excitation path length, excitation intensity, and detection efficiency (9). A calibration was carried out on each preparation. The fluorescence ratios R were found to be hyperbolically dependent on potassium concentrations and were converted to potassium concentration by using the equation [K+] = Kd x (R – R0)/(Rmax – R), where Kd is the dissociation constant (8 mM) experimentally determined, as previously described (31); R0 is the fluorescence signal after lysis; and Rmax is the maximum signal obtained after probe saturation with KCl.
Measurement of pH changes in BCECF-loaded mitochondria.
Matrix pH was measured in isolated rat heart mitochondria as described by Jung et al. (32). Briefly, isolated rat heart mitochondria were incubated with 8 µM BCECF AM in buffer A for 10 min at room temperature with stirring and oxygen access. The suspension was then diluted 10-fold with buffer A and centrifuged at 9,000 g for 5 min to remove excess probe. Mitochondria were then resuspended in buffer A and stored on ice. Assays were carried out with 0.25 mg/ml mitochondrial protein at 30°C. BCECF fluorescence, which increases with increasing pH, was measured with an SLM/Aminco 8000C fluorescence spectrophotometer (ex = 509 nm, em = 535 nm).
Statistical analysis. Data are presented as means ± SD. Data were analyzed using unpaired Student's t-test of the means using Microcal Origin software (Northampton, MA). A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Chemicals. PBFI AM and BCECF AM were obtained from Molecular Probes (Eugene, OR). Pluronic F-127 was obtained from Calbiochem (San Diego, CA). All other chemicals used were from Sigma Chemical (St. Louis, MO).
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(5, 19). Figure 2A contains typical light-scattering traces from heart mitochondria respiring in K+ medium. In the absence of ATP (None), the matrix swelled to a higher steady-state volume. Addition of 200 µM ATP resulted in a lower swelling rate and consequently a lower steady-state volume (ATP). ATP inhibition was reversed by 30 µM diazoxide (ATP + DZX), and the diazoxide opening was blocked by 300 µM 5-HD (ATP + DZX + 5-HD). The results obtained with the combination diazoxide + 5-HD (Fig. 2A) were reproduced by the combinations diazoxide + glibenclamide (10 µM), cromakalim (50 µM) + 5-HD, or cromakalim + glibenclamide (5 independent experiments for each combination, data not shown).
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120 s, Fig. 2B), uptake of TEA+ can no longer be balanced by K+ extrusion, and matrix swelling proceeds at a rate proportional to the uncompensated TEA+ influx. Note that light scattering in TEA+ medium is unaffected by ATP, diazoxide, or 5-HD (Fig. 2B) and is also unaffected by cromakalim or glibenclamide (not shown). We have also found in experiments not shown that light scattering in Li+ or Na+ media is similarly unaffected by these agents. Figure 2C contains light-scattering traces from mitochondria suspended in the same K+ medium as was used in Fig. 2A. These data show that inhibition of K+ influx by ATP or tetraphenylphosphonium cation (TPP+) is reversed by the presence of 0.9 pmol valinomycin/mg of protein and that the matrix swelling induced by this concentration of valinomycin is qualitatively and quantitatively similar to that induced by diazoxide in Fig. 2A. Moreover, 5-HD did not inhibit swelling caused by valinomycin, confirming the mitoKATP-specific effects of 5-HD. Glibenclamide was also not able to inhibit swelling caused by valinomycin (not shown).
To further investigate whether ATP has artifactual effects on the light-scattering signal, we examined the effects of ATP on nonelectrolyte transport in respiring mitochondria, with typical results contained in Fig. 3. Heart mitochondria rapidly take up erythritol and malonamide with osmotically obligated water, and malonamide is transported 5 times faster than erythritol, as previously shown in liver mitochondria (19). Note that the presence of 200 µM ATP had no effect on the rate of swelling, confirming that ATP does not introduce an artifact into the light-scattering assay when added before the mitochondria. We also observed no effect of diazoxide or 5-HD on matrix swelling in erythritol and malonamide (data not shown).
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In contrast to the results with valinomycin, CCCP does not exhibit dependence on added cytochrome c (Fig. 5B). CCCP does not rupture the OM at any concentration because uncoupling by means of increased proton cycling has no direct effect on matrix volume, and the OM maintains its integrity.
Net K+ uptake causes matrix alkalinization. Net K+ influx is balanced exactly by net electrogenic proton ejection by the electron transport chain, leading to matrix alkalinization. This will be partially compensated by electroneutral Pi uptake, which delivers protons to the matrix. However, the cytosolic concentration of potassium is much greater than those of Pi and other substrate anions that undergo electroneutral exchange across the inner mitochondrial membrane. Consequently, these anion movements cannot fully compensate the alkalinizing effect of net K+ influx. We have hypothesized that this normal imbalance must inevitably lead to matrix alkalinization as a consequence of net K+ uptake via mitoKATP (22).
To test this hypothesis, we measured changes in both matrix [K+] and matrix pH by loading the matrix with the K+-selective fluorescent probe PBFI (31) and the pH-selective fluorescent probe BCECF (8). PBFI is insensitive to changes in matrix K+ at normal levels of matrix [K+] (150 mM) because the probe (Kd 8 mM) is saturated at these levels, so we first depleted K+ by a brief incubation in TEA+ salts with substrate (18), resulting in a matrix [K+] of 10–20 mM. This substitution had no effect on respiration rate or respiratory control (data not shown). One of the earliest reported features of the K+/H+ antiporter is that it responds to changes in pH and volume, but not K+ (16, 18). Thus, when part of matrix K+ is replaced by TEA+, the K+/H+ antiporter responds exactly as if the matrix contained all K+. This predicts that the TEA+ + K+ mitochondria will reach a steady state and that the steady-state K+ will move higher in response to additional K+ uptake. This is exactly what is observed, as shown in the K+ influx data in Fig. 6A. The results of experiments measuring matrix pH are reported in Fig. 6B. The results obtained with diazoxide and 5-HD (Fig. 6) were duplicated by 50 µM cromakalim and 10 µM glibenclamide, respectively (n = 3, data not shown). These results show directly that K+ channel openers increase net K+ influx and that net uptake of K+ by respiring mitochondria causes matrix alkalinization (22).
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Figure 7 summarizes the results of experiments comparing diazoxide with valinomycin in the light-scattering assay (Fig. 7A) and the respiration assay (Fig. 7B). In both assays, mitoKATP activity corresponded, by interpolation, to 1.0 ± 0.2 pmol valinomycin/mg of protein (5 independent experiments). Figure 8 summarizes the results from the PBFI (Fig. 8A) and BCECF (Fig. 8B) experiments, together with a comparison with the effects of 1 pmol valinomycin/mg of protein. In both assays, mitoKATP activity corresponded again to 1.0 ± 0.2 pmol valinomycin/mg of protein (3 independent experiments). Thus the data contained in Figs. 7 and 8 show that four independent assays yield quantitatively identical results, establishing not only the capacity of the endogenous ATP-inhibitable and diazoxide-openable K+ channel but also the validity of each of these assays in monitoring that capacity. These experiments were also duplicated by substituting cromakalim and glibenclamide for diazoxide and 5-HD (as described for Fig. 2A, data not shown).
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MitoKATP maintains matrix volume during ischemia. We include a brief summary of this "end effector" role of mitoKATP opening for completeness, as it has been discussed previously (14). During ischemia, the matrix will contract due to the decreased membrane potential. Matrix contraction will cause reciprocal expansion of the intermembrane space (IMS), resulting in increased outer membrane permeability to ADP and ATP, which promotes rapid hydrolysis of cellular ATP by mitochondria. MitoKATP opening increases potassium conductance to compensate for the lower electrical driving force, thereby maintaining matrix volume, IMS volume, and low OM permeability to ATP and ADP. We showed that mitoKATP opening causes a large overall reduction in ATP hydrolysis during simulated ischemia, an effect that preserves adenine nucleotides by delaying their degradation, thereby preserving ADP for an appropriate response to reperfusion (14, 33). We also showed that segregation of ATP and ADP by this mechanism increases the localized ATP hydrolysis within the mitochondrial compartment, thereby lowering the membrane potential. Membrane depolarization, in turn, will reduce Ca2+ uptake and prevent Ca2+ overload, as suggested by Liu et al. (37) and Korge et al. (33). The only point of disagreement on this issue is the mechanism of the membrane depolarization. Liu et al. (37) and Korge et al. (33) attribute it to uncoupling. Although a significant uncoupling during ischemia cannot be excluded, we have shown that the mitoKATP-dependent depolarization observed in simulated ischemia is associated with reduced ATP hydrolysis. This depolarization cannot be due to uncoupling, which would increase ATP hydrolysis (14).
MitoKATP increases matrix volume during normoxia. As described in Fig. 1, mitoKATP opening adds a parallel inner membrane K+ conductance leading to increased K+ influx. K+ is accompanied by Pi and water, leading to matrix swelling, as shown by the light-scattering traces in Fig. 2A and in Ref 34. The increase in matrix volume is inhibited by ATP; ATP inhibition is reversed by KATP channel openers such as diazoxide; and channel opening is prevented by KATP channel blockers, such as 5-HD. Attribution of these responses to mitoKATP activity is supported by the finding that they do not occur in K+-free medium (Fig. 2B). Nor do they occur in K+ medium when K+ influx is increased with valinomycin (Fig. 2C). As shown in Fig. 2C, mitochondria treated with valinomycin exhibit the same response as mitochondria treated with diazoxide, except that the effects of valinomycin do not require ATP and are not inhibited by 5-HD.
On the basis of the known behavior of the K+/H+ antiporter, we have asserted that the increase in matrix K+ due to mitoKATP opening simply shifts matrix volume to a higher steady-state value (22). The K+/H+ antiporter is not very susceptible to regulation by changes in its substrate concentrations, because [K+] and [H+] do not change very much, even with rather large amounts of net K+ uptake (16). Instead, the antiporter is regulated allosterically by matrix [Mg2+] (16) and [H+] (6), which sense changes in matrix volume (22). This means that the K+/H+ antiporter will mitigate, but not prevent, volume changes due to increased K+ uptake. Figure 4 contains strong support for this hypothesis. Matrix volume was perturbed by opening and closing mitoKATP (Fig. 4A) or by adding ionophores (Fig. 4B). The effects of quinine, which inhibits the K+/H+ antiporter (38), confirm that the preceding volume was a true steady state and also demonstrate that K+/H+ antiporter activity increases with increasing matrix volume.
MitoKATP opening causes mild uncoupling.
The steady-state K+ cycle described in Fig. 1 is a futile cycle and dissipates energy. We have found that, provided K+ influx and efflux are balanced with the aid of ionophores, the result of the futile K+ cycle is exactly the same as that of a futile protonophoretic cycle caused by adding an uncoupler such as CCCP (data not shown). However, when K+ influx and efflux must rely on endogenous pathways, the results are not identical, as shown in Fig. 5. As valinomycin-mediated uncoupling increases, the volume must also increase, as described in the preceding section. This will eventually cause the outer membrane to rupture with loss of cytochrome c and inhibition of respiration (Fig. 5A). This is not observed during CCCP-mediated uncoupling (Fig. 5B), which is not associated with matrix swelling. Valinomycin-induced uncoupling causes loss of outer membrane integrity at 1.5 pmol valinomycin/mg of protein, and mitoKATP opening causes uncoupling to an equivalent valinomycin dose of 1 pmol/mg of protein (dashed line in Fig. 5A). Thus mitochondria have a very narrow margin of safety with respect to K+ cycling, and a low mitoKATP activity is essential for preserving the integrity of the outer membrane. Indeed, the K+ flux catalyzed by mitoKATP is so small that it is estimated to cause a decrease in mitochondrial membrane potential of only 1–2 mV in normoxic hearts (34). For this reason, we believe that a decrease in membrane potential is not one of the significant effects of mitoKATP opening in the normoxic heart. Other laboratories have also shown that mitoKATP opening does not cause detectable uncoupling of respiration in vivo or in isolated myocytes (28, 36, 41).
MitoKATP opening causes matrix alkalinization.
The theoretical basis for the hypothesis that net K+ uptake results in matrix alkalinization is best understood in the context of Fig. 1. Because overall transport must be electroneutral, electrophoretic K+ influx will be balanced exactly by the electrogenic H+ efflux driven by electron transport. If this were all that happened, the K+ for H+ exchange would increase matrix pH by an amount determined by the buffering power of the matrix (22). For example, if 20 mM K+ were added to the matrix by this process, matrix pH would increase by 1 pH unit. In fact, however, this loss of matrix protons is partially compensated by electroneutral uptake of phosphoric acid via the Pi transporter. The compensation is limited, however, by the fact that Pi is in equilibrium with the pH gradient and, because the cytosolic concentration of Pi is much lower than that of K+, Pi uptake is limited by its equilibrium distribution. For these reasons, the Pi equivalents taken up will always be less than those of K+ during net K+ uptake, and it is this imbalance that leads to matrix alkalinization. The data in Fig. 6, A and B, show directly that the increase in matrix K+, mediated either by mitoKATP or by valinomycin, is accompanied by matrix alkalinization. This effect is germane to the role of mitoKATP in cardioprotection because matrix alkalinization appears to be the cause of mitoKATP-dependent increases in production of ROS (A. Andrukhiv and K. D. Garlid, unpublished observations).
MitoKATP: its existence and its assay. The theoretical, experimental, and quantitative bases of the light-scattering assay for ion transport in mitochondria were developed 20 years ago (5, 19), and application of this assay to the study of mitoKATP was described 12 years ago (7). Despite a robust body of evidence in support of this application (4, 7, 24, 30, 34), its validity was recently questioned by Halestrap and coworkers (12). They carried out light-scattering experiments with heart mitochondria in which they observed ATP inhibition of matrix swelling in K+ medium but failed to observe any effects of diazoxide or 5-HD. The latter finding caused these authors to raise the question of whether mitochondria possess a KATP channel. To explain the effect of ATP, they attributed the apparent inhibition by ATP to a light-scattering artifact rather than to inhibition of K+ flux.
The results in this study address these concerns as follows. 1) ATP, diazoxide, cromakalim, glibenclamide, and 5-HD affect matrix swelling only in K+ medium and not in TEA+, Li+, Na+, or nonelectrolyte media (Fig. 2, A and B; Fig. 3; and data not shown). 2) ATP, diazoxide, and 5-HD have no effect in K+ medium when K+ conductance is increased by valinomycin. 3) Direct measurement of K+ influx (Fig. 6A) and the accompanying matrix alkalinization (Fig. 6B) confirm the effects of ATP, diazoxide, cromakalim, glibenclamide, and 5-HD on K+ influx in mitochondria. 4) With the use of valinomycin-mediated K+ influx for calibration, mitoKATP-mediated K+ influx induced by diazoxide or cromakalim was found to be quantitatively identical in four independent assays: light scattering, respiration, K+ influx, and H+ efflux (Figs. 7 and 8). In our judgment, these findings provide decisive support for the existence of mitoKATP and for the validity of the light-scattering technique for its assay. This is very important because light scattering is the only practical means of studying K+ transport in isolated mitochondria, and such studies are essential for future progress toward understanding the role of mitoKATP in cardioprotection.
In summary, it seems likely that all of the effects of mitoKATP opening arise from increasing the K+ conductance of the inner mitochondrial membrane, although unrecognized consequences of protein-protein interactions cannot be excluded. We believe that the only known direct effect of mitoKATP opening during ischemia is to maintain matrix and IMS volumes (14). We have now established three direct effects of mitoKATP opening that occur during normoxia: matrix swelling, mild uncoupling, and matrix alkalinization. The unknown mechanisms by which mitoKATP opening confers cardioprotection must ultimately derive from one of these effects, and it is hoped that these findings will help in the search for these mechanisms.
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pH). Thus there is no net Pi movement associated with steady-state K+ cycling because there is no change in 
resp) of rat heart mitochondria respiring on succinate in K+ medium. A: Val titrations in the presence (
) or absence (
) of cytochrome c. Dashed line represents the rate of diazoxide (Dz)-induced oxygen consumption [in the presence (
) or absence (
) of cytochrome c], being equal to the rate induced by 
), ATP+Dzx (
), ATP+Val (
), and ATP+Dzx+5-HD (
). B: representative traces of BCECF-detected matrix pH changes. Mitochondria were loaded with either PBFI or BCECF and assayed at 0.25 mg/ml in K+ medium as described in METHODS. Where indicated, ATP (200 µM) and 5-HD (300 µM) were present at the beginning of each trace. DZX (30 µM) and Val (0.9 pmol/mg of protein) were added 2 s after the addition of mitochondria. Traces are representative of at least 4 independent experiments. au, Arbitrary units.
