PubMed · 531978
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K Rasmussen. 1979-11-26. [Isovaleric acidemia].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/531978/
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We have determined the formal potential values for each electron transfer to electron transfer flavoprotein-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (ETF-QO), in order to further characterize the thermodynamics of electron transport from various acyl-CoA thioesters to the mitochondrial ubiquinone pool. ETF-QO contains one [4Fe-4S]2+,1+ cluster and one FAD prosthetic group. A preliminary visible-spectroelectrochemical titration showed that the two redox centers were reduced almost simultaneously. Since the visible spectra of the chromophores overlap, it was not possible to resolve the formal potential value for each electron transfer to the protein using this method. Accordingly, an EPR-spectroelectrochemical cell was designed so that each formal potential value could be resolved by EPR quantitation of the flavin semiquinone and the reduced iron-sulfur cluster during the titration. The formal potential values for electron transfer to ETF-ubiquinone oxidoreductase at pH 7.5 and 4 degrees C were E1 degrees' = +0.028 V and E2 degrees' = -0.006 V for the first and second electron transfers, respectively, to the FAD and E degrees' = +0.047 V for the iron-sulfur cluster. The thermodynamics of electron transport from the acyl-CoA substrates of beta-oxidation to the mitochondrial electron transport chain have been fully resolved with completion of this work. The results are discussed in terms of their significance to the overall electron transport process from beta-oxidation.
The CoA derivative 3-indolepropionyl-CoA (IPCoA) serves as a competent pseudosubstrate for the medium-chain fatty acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD)-catalyzed reaction. The reaction product trans-3-indoleacryloyl-CoA (IACoA) exhibits a characteristic UV-vis absorption spectrum with lambda max = 367 nm and epsilon 367 = 26,500 M-1 cm-1. The chromophoric nature of IACoA allows us to measure the direct conversion of substrate to product (at 367 nm) without recourse to absorption signals for either the enzyme-bound flavin or the coupling electron acceptors, as well as probe the enzyme site environment. The interaction of IACoA with medium chain fatty acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD)-FAD is characterized by resultant (spectra of the mixture minus the individual components) absorption peaks at 490, 417, and 355 nm. These absorption peaks increase in magnitude as the pH of the buffer media decreases. Transient kinetic analysis for the interaction of MCAD-FAD with IACoA suggests that the formation of the enzyme-IACoA complex proceeds in two steps. The first (fast) step involves the formation of an E-IACoA collision complex, which [formula: see text] is isomerized (concomitant with changes in the protein structure) to an E*-IACoA complex in the second (slow) step. We have studied the effect of pH on Kc, k2, and k-2. While Kc shows practically no dependence on pH (within a 2-fold variation between pH 6.0 and 9.5), k2 and k-2 show a strong dependence on pH. Both k2 and k-2 exhibit a sigmoidal dependence on the pH of the buffer media, with pKa's of 7.53 and 8.30, respectively. In accordance with the model presented herein, the pKa of 7.53 represents an enzyme site group which is involved in the interaction with IACoA within the E-IACoA collision complex. This pKa is perturbed to 8.30 upon isomerization of the collision complex. The pH-dependent changes in k2 and k-2 are such that the equilibrium distribution between E-IACoA and E*-IACoA is favored to the latter complex (by about 20-fold) at lower pH than at higher pH. A cumulative account of the spectral, kinetic, and thermodynamic properties of the enzyme-IACoA complexes has allowed us delineate the microscopic pathway by which the E-IACoA isomerization (presumably via protein conformational changes) is coupled to the proton equilibration steps.
Cytosolic free Ca2+ rises in pancreatic beta-cells in response to glucose stimulation and is part of the coupling to insulin secretion. This study evaluates a possible role for cytosolic long chain acyl-CoA esters in modulating Ca2+ handling by clonal beta-cells (HIT). Intact cells incubated with 20 microM free palmitic acid exhibited a 40% decrease in basal cytosolic free Ca2+. In contrast, acyl-CoA esters, up to a chain length of 16, but not the corresponding fatty acids, significantly lowered the Ca2+ set point maintained by cells permeabilized with saponin. The maximum response to the various acyl-CoA esters increased with increasing chain length, with no differences in the half-maximally effective concentration of 0.5 microM. Long chain acyl-CoA esters caused a 40-50% increase in 45Ca2+ influx into a non-mitochondrial pool in the permeabilized HIT cells, consistent with a stimulatory effect on the endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase activity, but did not affect inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-induced Ca(2+)-efflux. Thapsigargin, an inhibitor of endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase activity, blocked the decrease in the Ca2+ set point caused by acyl-CoA esters. The ability of acyl-CoA esters to lower the Ca2+ set point depended on the ATP/ADP ratio (or free ADP); the Ca2+ set point was lowered by 36 +/- 3.6% at an ATP/ADP ratio of 90 and by 14 +/- 1.9% at an ATP/ADP ratio of 7. Depletion of cellular protein kinase C did not prevent the acyl-CoA-induced lowering of the Ca2+ set point. These findings suggest that the increases in long chain acyl-CoA esters may play a role in restoring cytosolic free Ca2+ through activation of Ca(2+)-ATPases.