Khorsandi, SE;
Taanman, JW;
Heaton, N;
(2017)
Subunit composition of respiratory chain complex 1 and its responses to oxygen in mitochondria from human donor livers.
BMC Research Notes
, 10
, Article 547. 10.1186/s13104-017-2863-7.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Donor liver function in transplantation is defined by mitochondrial function and the ability of mitochondria to recover from the sequence of warm and/or cold ischemia. Mitochondrial resilience maybe related to assembly and- subunit composition of Complex 1. The aim of this study was to determine if Complex 1 subunit composition was different in donor livers of varying quality and whether oxygen exposure had any effect. RESULTS: Five human livers not suitable for transplant were split. One half placed in cold static storage and the other half exposed to 40% oxygen for 2 h. Protein was extracted for western blot. Membranes were probed with antibodies against β-actin and the following subunits of Complex 1: MTND1, NDUFA10, NDUFB6 and NDUFV2. No difference in steady state Complex 1 subunit composition was demonstrated between donor livers of varying quality, in terms of steatosis or mode of donation. Neither did exposure to oxygen influence Complex 1 subunit composition. This small observational study on subunit levels suggest that Complex 1 is fully assembled as no degradation of subunits associated with the different parts of the enzyme was seen.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Subunit composition of respiratory chain complex 1 and its responses to oxygen in mitochondria from human donor livers |
Location: | England |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1186/s13104-017-2863-7 |
Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2863-7 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
Keywords: | Complex 1, Donor after cardiac death, Liver transplantation, Mitochondria, Oxygen |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10037991 |



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