First-order kinetics of muscle oxygen consumption, and an equivalent proportionality between QO2 and phosphorylcreatine level. Implications for the control of respiration.
Open Access
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 86 (1), 135-165
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.86.1.135
Abstract
In frog sartorius muscle, after a tetanus at 20 degrees C, during which an impulse-like increase occurs in the rate of ATP hydrolysis, the rate of O2 consumption (QO2) reaches a peak relatively quickly and then declines monoexponentially, with a time constant not dependent on the tetanus duration (tau = 2.6 min in Rana pipiens and 2.1 min in Rana temporaria). To a good approximation, these kinetics are those of a first-order impulse response, and the scheme of reactions that couple O2 consumption to extramitochondrial ATP hydrolysis thus behaves as a first-order system. It is first deduced and then demonstrated directly that while QO2(t) is monoexponential, it changes in parallel with the levels of creatine and phosphorylcreatine, with proportionality constants +/- 1/tau p, where p is the P/O2 ratio in vivo. From this, it is further deduced that the mitochondrial creatine kinase (CK) reaction is pseudo-first order in vivo. The relationship between [creatine] and QO2 predicted by published models of the control of respiration is markedly different from that actually observed. As shown here, the first-order kinetics of QO2 are consistent with the hypothesis that respiration is rate-limited by the mitochondrial CK reaction; this has as a corollary the "creatine shuttle" hypothesis.Keywords
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