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Cardiac cytochrome C oxidase activity and contents of subunits 1 and 4 are altered in offspring by low prenatal copper intake by rat dams.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  18567746     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
It has been reported previously that the offspring of rat dams consuming low dietary copper (Cu) during pregnancy and lactation experience a deficiency in cardiac cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) characterized by reduced catalytic activity and mitochondrial and nuclear subunit content after postnatal d 10. The present study was undertaken to determine whether the cardiac CCO deficiency was caused directly by low postnatal Cu intake or whether it was a prenatal effect of low Cu intake by the dams that became manifest postnatally. Dams were fed either a Cu-adequate diet (6 mg Cu/kg) or Cu-deficient diet (1 mg Cu/kg) beginning 3 wk before conception and throughout gestation and lactation. One day following parturition, several litters from Cu-adequate dams were cross fostered to Cu-deficient dams and several litters from Cu-deficient dams were cross fostered to Cu-adequate dams. Litters that remained with their birth dams served as controls. CCO activity, the content of the mitochondrial-encoded CCO subunit 1 (COX1), and the content of the nuclear-encoded subunit COX4 in cardiac mitochondria were reduced in the 21-d-old offspring of Cu-deficient dams. COX1 content was normal in the 21-d-old cross-fostered offspring of Cu-deficient dams, but CCO activity and COX4 were reduced. Cross fostering the offspring of Cu-adequate dams to Cu-deficient dams did not significantly affect CCO activity, COX1 content, or COX4 content in cardiac mitochondria of 21-d-old offspring. These data indicate that low prenatal Cu intake by dams was the determinant of CCO activity in cardiac mitochondria of the 21-d-old offspring and may have led to the assembly of a less-than-fully active holoenzyme.
Authors:
W Thomas Johnson; Cindy M Anderson
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of nutrition     Volume:  138     ISSN:  1541-6100     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Nutr.     Publication Date:  2008 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-06-23     Completed Date:  2008-07-03     Revised Date:  2008-11-21    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0404243     Medline TA:  J Nutr     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1269-73     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9034, USA. thomas.johnson@ars.usda.gov
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Copper / administration & dosage*,  deficiency*,  metabolism
Diet
Electron Transport Complex IV / chemistry,  metabolism*
Female
Male
Maternal-Fetal Exchange
Mitochondria, Heart / enzymology
Mitochondria, Liver / enzymology
Myocardium / enzymology*
Pregnancy
Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Protein Subunits
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Protein Subunits; 7440-50-8/Copper; EC 1.9.3.1/Electron Transport Complex IV

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