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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 252: R822-R832, 1987;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 252, Issue 5 822-R832, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Thermogenin amount and activity in hamster brown fat mitochondria: effect of cold acclimation

U. Sundin, G. Moore, J. Nedergaard and B. Cannon

To investigate the acclimation process in a hibernator, four different parameters of thermogenin amount and activity were investigated in brown adipose tissue mitochondria from cold-exposed and cold-acclimated Syrian hamsters. Hamsters, which are hibernators, have been considered to be "primed" for thermogenesis and thus not to show cold-acclimation effects, but here a significant increase in [3H]GDP-binding capacity was observed (from 0.5 nmol in control to 0.9 nmol GDP/mg in cold-acclimated hamsters), and this increase was paralleled by an increase in thermogenin antigen amount, as measured in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The transient nature of the effect of cold exposure on [3H]GDP binding, characteristically observed with rat mitochondria, was not observed with hamster mitochondria, and the increase in [3H]GDP binding occurred without a change in the dissociation constant (0.7 microM). The increase in thermogenin amount was paralleled by an increase both in GDP-sensitive Cl- permeability of the mitochondria and in GDP-sensitive respiration. It was established that it is the maximal activity of thermogenin that is rate limiting for thermogenesis in isolated mitochondria, provided that an optimal substrate is used (such as palmitoyl carnitine). Cold acclimation also increased the total amount of mitochondria in the tissue, leading totally to a sixfold increase in thermogenin content of the hamster. It is concluded that (contrary to the general view) hamsters show the expected physiological, pharmacological, and biochemical signs of cold acclimation (i.e., an increased capacity for nonshivering thermogenesis).


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