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Previous work by this and other laboratories has shown that glucagon administration stimulates calcium uptake by subsequently isolated hepatic mitochondria. This stimulation of hepatic mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake byin vivo administration of glucagon was further characterized in the present report. Maximal stimulation of mitochondrial Ca2+ accumulation was achieved between 6–10 min after the intravenous injection of glucagon into intact rats. Under control conditions, Ca2+ uptake was inhibited by the presence of Mg2+ in the incubation medium. Glucagon treatment, however, appeared to obliterate the observed inhibition by Mg2+ of mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake. Kinetic experiments revealed the usual sigmoidicity associated with initial velocity curves for mitochondrial calcium uptake. Glucagon treatment did not alter this sigmoidal relationship. Glucagon treatment significantly increased the Vmax for Ca2+ uptake from 292±22 to 377±34 nmoles Ca2+ /min per mg protein (n=8) but did not affect the K0.5, (6.5–8.6 μM). Since the major kinetic change in mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake evoked by glucagon is an increase in Vmax, the enhancement mechanism is likely to be an increase either in the number of active transport sites available to Ca2+ or in the rate of Ca2+ carrier movement across the mitochondrial membranes.
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Andia-Waltenbaugh, A.M., Tate, C.A. & Kraus Friedmann, N. The effect of glucagon on the kinetics of hepatic mitochondrial calcium uptake. Mol Cell Biochem 36, 177–184 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02357035
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