Smolina Natalia, Bruton Joseph, Kostareva Anna, Sejersen Thomas
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Federal Almazov North-West Medical Research Centre, Akkuratova Str. 2, Saint Petersburg, 197341, Russia.
Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1601:79-87. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6960-9_7.
Mitochondrial respiration is the most important generator of cellular energy under most circumstances. It is a process of energy conversion of substrates into ATP. The Seahorse equipment allows measuring oxygen consumption rate (OCR) in living cells and estimates key parameters of mitochondrial respiration in real-time mode. Through use of mitochondrial inhibitors, four key mitochondrial respiration parameters can be measured: basal, ATP production-linked, maximal, and proton leak-linked OCR. This approach requires application of mitochondrial inhibitors-oligomycin to block ATP synthase, FCCP-to make the inner mitochondrial membrane permeable for protons and allow maximum electron flux through the electron transport chain, and rotenone and antimycin A-to inhibit complexes I and III, respectively. This chapter describes the protocol of OCR assessment in the culture of primary myotubes obtained upon satellite cell fusion.
在大多数情况下,线粒体呼吸是细胞能量的最重要来源。它是一个将底物转化为ATP的能量转换过程。海马设备能够测量活细胞中的氧消耗率(OCR),并以实时模式估算线粒体呼吸的关键参数。通过使用线粒体抑制剂,可以测量四个关键的线粒体呼吸参数:基础、与ATP产生相关、最大和与质子泄漏相关的OCR。这种方法需要应用线粒体抑制剂——寡霉素来阻断ATP合酶,FCCP——使线粒体内膜对质子通透,并允许最大电子通量通过电子传递链,以及鱼藤酮和抗霉素A——分别抑制复合物I和III。本章描述了在卫星细胞融合后获得的原代肌管培养物中进行OCR评估的方案。