| Literature DB >> 8068003 |
T Letellier1, R Heinrich, M Malgat, J P Mazat.
Abstract
Threshold effects in the expression of metabolic diseases have often been observed in mitochondrial pathologies, i.e. the clinical demonstration of the disease appears only when the activity of a step has been reduced to a rather low level. We show experimentally that an inhibition of cytochrome c oxidase activity by cyanide, simulating a defect in this step, leads to a decrease in mitochondrial respiration which then exhibits a threshold behaviour similar to that observed in mitochondrial diseases. We discuss this behaviour in terms of metabolic control theory and construct a mathematical model simulating this behaviour.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID: 8068003 PMCID: PMC1137205 DOI: 10.1042/bj3020171
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857