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DEVELOPMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY AND PREGNANCY

Control of oxidative phosphorylation during insect metamorphosis

Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701

Submitted 4 March 2004 ; accepted in final form 1 April 2004

The midgut of the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) is a highly aerobic tissue that is destroyed and replaced by a pupal epithelium at metamorphosis. To determine how oxidative phosphorylation is altered during the programmed death of the larval cells, top-down control analysis was performed on mitochondria isolated from the midguts of larvae before and after the commitment to pupation. Oxygen consumption and protonmotive force (measured as membrane potential in the presence of nigericin) were monitored to determine the kinetic responses of the substrate oxidation system, proton leak, and phosphorylation system to changes in the membrane potential. Mitochondria from precommitment larvae have higher respiration rates than those from postcommitment larvae. State 4 respiration is controlled by the proton leak and the substrate oxidation system. In state 3, the substrate oxidation system exerted 90% of the control over respiration, and this high level of control did not change with development. Elasticity analysis, however, revealed that, after commitment, the activity of the substrate oxidation system falls. This decline may be due, in part, to a loss of cytochrome c from the mitochondria. There are no differences in the kinetics of the phosphorylation system, indicating that neither the F₁F₀ ATP synthase nor the adenine nucleotide translocase is affected in the early stages of metamorphosis. An increase in proton conductance was observed in mitochondria isolated from postcommitment larvae, indicating that membrane area, lipid composition, or proton-conducting proteins may be altered during the early stages of the programmed cell death of the larval epithelium.

Manduca sexta; elasticity analysis; midgut; programmed cell death; cytochrome c

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