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Effect of pyridine nucleotides on ATP synthesis and hydrolysis by the mitochondrial ATPase.

The effect of NADH, NAD+, NADPH, and NADP+ on succinate driven ATP synthesis of Mg-ATP submitochondrial particles and on ATP hydrolysis in soluble and particulate F1 from bovine heart was studied. Hydrolysis was inhibited competitively by all pyridine nucleotides when the concentration of Mg [gamma 32P]-ATP was varied between 0.1 mM to 3 mM, but NAD+ was less effective. Succinate driven ATP synthesis at various concentrations of ADP was also inhibited by the four pyridine nucleotides, but NADH was much more effective. Increasing concentrations of phosphate decreased the extent of the NADH induced inhibition of ATP synthesis. The effect of various parts of the NADH molecule on ATP synthesis was tested; the order of inhibition by these compounds was: NADH greater than ADP-ribose greater than NAD+ greater than NADPH greater than NADP+ greater than nicotinamide mononucleotide greater than nicotinamide.

Adenosine Triphosphatases↗

Mitochondrial phosphate transport and the N-ethylmaleimide binding proteins of the inner membrane.

Mitochondria have been prepared from the flight muscles of mature blow-flies (Sarcophaga bullata). Phosphate transport by these mitochondria, determined by rates of passive swelling in ammonium phosphate, is sensitive to inhibition by N-ethylmaleimide. 20 nmol of N-ethylmaleimide/nmol cytochrome A inhibit the swelling by 90%. When the mitochondria are inhibited by N-[3H]ethylmaleimide, then solubilized in dodecyl sulfate/mercaptoethanol at 100 degrees C and then electrophoresed on dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels, many labeled protein bands can be detected, including a large labeled peak that has the same mobility as the tracking dye, bromophenol blue. Sonic submitochondrial particles that are prepared from the N-[3H]ethylmaleimide-labeled mitochondria, solubilized, and electrophoresed on dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels, possess only seven major labeled protein bands with no radioactive peak at the tracking dye. These labeled proteins have molecular weights of 71, 68, 64, 45, 32, 30, and approx. 10 . 10(3). The nmol N-[3H]ethylmaleimide bound to each of these proteins per nmol cytochrome A are 0.15, 0.19, 0.35, 0.45, 0.87, 0.10, and 0.17, respectively, when the mitochondria are inhibited with 21.5 mol N-[3H]ethylmaleimide/mol cytochrome a at 10 micron cytochrome A. Coty and Pedersen (1975) J. Biol. Chem. 250, 3515-3521) sensitized rat liver mitochondria to N-[3H]ethylmaleimide and identified five labeled proteins. Only the labeled 32 . 10(3) dalton and the 45 . 10(3) dalton proteins are common to both systems.

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Mitochondrial F0F1 H+-ATP synthase. Characterization of F0 components involved in H+ translocation.

The membrane F0 sector of mitochondrial ATP synthase complex was rapidly isolated by direct extraction with CHAPS from F1-depleted submitochondrial particles. The preparation thus obtained is stable and can be reconstituted in artificial phospholipid membranes to result in oligomycin-sensitive proton conduction, or recombined with purified F1 to give the oligomycin-sensitive F0F1-ATPase complex. The F0 preparation and constituent polypeptides were characterized by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblot analysis. The functional role of F0 polypeptides was examined by means of trypsin digestion and reconstitution studies. It is shown that, in addition to the 8 kDa DCCD-binding protein, the nuclear encoded protein [(1987) J. Mol. Biol. 197, 89-100], characterized as an intrinsic component of F0 (F0I, PVP protein [(1988) FEBS Lett. 237,9-14]) [corrected] is involved in H+ translocation and the sensitivity of this process to the F0 inhibitors, DCCD and oligomycin.

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Interaction between F1-ATPase and its naturally occurring inhibitor protein. Studies using a specific anti-inhibitor antibody.

An antibody was raised to cross-linked ox-heart mitochondrial inhibitor protein, which cross-reacts with the free inhibitor but with no other mitochondrial membrane protein. This antibody yields an immunoprecipitate with the cross-linked inhibitor protein, but a soluble antibody-antigen complex with free inhibitor. The antibody binds well to inhibitor protein whether the latter is complexed with F1-ATPase or not. Antibody binding has no effect on the ability of the inhibitor protein to inhibit the ATPase activity of F1. These findings suggest that the antibody does not block the site of interaction between the inhibitor and F1. The inhibitor protein content of submitochondrial membrane preparations was determined by radioimmunoassay, activity measurements and an immunochemical 'back titration' technique. The inhibitor content of the membranes is shown to decrease after energisation, suggesting a loss of inhibitor from the membranes into solution. Binding antibody to the inhibitor protein on submitochondrial particles has no effect on the steady-state rate of phosphorylation, but it increases the lag phase preceding phosphorylation from 30 to 54 s. The rate constant for the approach to the steady state drops from 0.078 to 0.052 s-1. This effect confirms that the lag phase is due to inhibition of phosphorylation by the inhibitor protein. The increase in ATPase activity following energisation takes place by a fast phase (80% maximal activity reached within 90 s) and a slower phase (lasting about 10 min.). The rate constant of the rapid phase (0.017 s-1) is of the same order as that for the activation of phosphorylation. It is concluded that the rapid phase of ATPase induction is fast enough for this process to occur simultaneously with the activation of phosphorylation.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

Lipid peroxidation and the reduction of ADP-Fe3+ chelate by NADH-ubiquinone reductase preparation from bovine heart mitochondria.

The NADH-ubiquinone reductase preparation (Complex I) of bovine hart mitochondria catalysed in the presence of reduced coenzymes and ADP-Fe3+ the lipid peroxidation of liposomes prepared from mitochondrial lipids. The apparent Km values for the coenzymes and the optimal pH of the reactions agreed well with those of the lipid peroxidation of the submitochondrial particles treated with rotenone. On assay of the reduction of ADP-Fe3+ chelate by the reduction of cytochrome c in the presence of superoxide dismutase and antimycin A or by the oxidation of reduced coenzymes, the reactions were not affected by rotenone but were inhibited by thiol-group inhibitors. The properties of the ADP-Fe3+ reductase activity were highly consistent with those of the lipid-peroxidation reaction. These observations suggest that electrons from reduced coenzymes are transferred to ADP-Fe3+ chelate from a component between a mercurial-sensitive site and the rotenone-sensitive one of the NADH dehydrogenase and that the reduction of ADP-Fe3+ chelate by the NADH dehydrogenase is an essential step in the lipid peroxidation.

Adenosine Diphosphate↗

THe proton-per-electron stoicheiometry of 'site 1' of oxidative phosphorylation at high protonmotive force is close to 1.5.

The maximum redox potential difference between the NAD+/NADH couple and the succinate/fumarate couple generated during ATP-energized reduction of NAD+ by succinate in submitochondrial particles was measured, together with the electrochemical potential difference for protons (delta mu approximately H+). The presence of cyanide, the time-independence of the redox potential difference and the irrelevance of the initial redox state of the NAD+/NADH couple ensured that the experimental situation corresponded to a 'static-head condition' with delta mu approximately H+ as the input force and the redox potential difference as the output force, the flow of electrons having reached dynamic equilibrium. Consequently, the observed value of 1.6 for the ratio delta Ge/delta mu approximately H+ is interpreted as indicating that the leads to H+/e- stoicheiometry at 'site 1' is 1.5 and that therefore the mechanism of the proton pump at 'site 1' is not of the group-translocation type (no direct leads to e - leads to H+ coupling).

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

Cross-linking of the endogenous inhibitor protein (IF1) with rotor (gamma, epsilon) and stator (alpha) subunits of the mitochondrial ATP synthase.

The location of the endogenous inhibitor protein (IF1) in the rotor/stator architecture of the bovine mitochondrial ATP synthase was studied by reversible cross-linking with dithiobis(succinimidylpropionate) in soluble F1I and intact F1F0I complexes of submitochondrial particles. Reducing two-dimensional electrophoresis, Western blotting, and fluorescent cysteine labeling showed formation of alpha-IF1, IF1-IF1, gamma-IF1, and epsilon-IF1 cross-linkages in soluble F1I and in native F1F0I complexes. Cross-linking blocked the release of IF1 from its inhibitory site and therefore the activation of F1I and F1F0I complexes in a dithiothreitol-sensitive process. These results show that the endogenous IF1 is at a distance < or = 12 angstroms to gamma and epsilon subunits of the central rotor of the native mitochondrial ATP synthase. This finding strongly suggests that, without excluding the classical assumption that IF1 inhibits conformational changes of the catalytic beta subunits, the inhibitory mechanism of IF1 may involve the interference with rotation of the central stalk.

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Photoaffinity labeling of mitochondrial proteins with 2-azido [32P]palmitoyl CoA.

A long-chain fatty acyl CoA photolabel, 2-azido [32P]palmitoyl CoA, was synthesized and its covalent interaction with mitochondrial membrane proteins examined. On binding of 2-azido [32P]palmitoyl CoA to beef heart mitochondria, two polypeptides were primarily labeled, the 30 kDa ADP/ATP carrier and a 41 kDa protein of unknown identity. Carboxyatractyloside and palmitoyl CoA completely protected against labeling of the 30 kDa protein indicating that it was the ADP/ATP carrier. With inverted submitochondrial particles, only the 30 kDa polypeptide was labeled by 2-azido [32P]palmitoyl CoA. The labeling was inhibited by bongkrekic acid and palmitoyl CoA but not carboxyatractyloside, providing evidence that the ADP/ATP carrier was covalently bound from the matrix side of the membrane. In brown adipose tissue mitochondria, 2-azido [32P]palmitoyl CoA photolabeled the ADP/ATP carrier and the 32 kDa uncoupling protein with some minor labeling of 36 and 68 kDa polypeptides. The results indicated that this physiological photolabeling reagent with the azido group on the CoA portion of the molecule interacts like 2-azido ADP with nucleotide binding sites of a number of important enzymes in cell metabolism. Moreover, the evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that long chain fatty acyl CoA esters are natural ligands for key nucleotide binding proteins.

Acyl Coenzyme A↗

Kinetic mechanism of ATP synthesis catalyzed by mitochondrial Fo x F1-ATPase.

Initial rates of succinate-dependent ATP synthesis catalyzed by submitochondrial particles from bovine heart substoichiometrically coupled with oligomycin were found to have hyperbolic dependencies on contents of Mg x ADP, free Mg2+, and phosphate. The results suggest that Mg x ADP complex and free phosphate are true substrates of the enzyme; and an unordered ternary complex of Fo x F1-ATPase, Mg x ADP, and phosphate is generated during the catalysis. The presence of free Mg2+ is required for the reaction. Mg2+ was a noncompetitive activator of ATP synthesis relative to Mg x ADP and a competitive activator relative to phosphate. The decrease in steady-state values of Deltamu(H)+ (by the inhibition of succinate oxidase with malonate) results in the decreased value of Vmax and in a slight decrease in Km for the substrates and Mg2+ without changes in affinity for the substrates. Based on these results, a kinetic scheme of ATP synthesis is proposed.

Adenosine Diphosphate↗

DPI induces mitochondrial superoxide-mediated apoptosis.

The iodonium compounds diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) and diphenyliodonium (IDP) are well-known phagocyte NAD(P)H oxidase inhibitors. However, it has been shown that at high concentrations they can inhibit the mitochondrial respiratory chain as well. Since inhibition of the mitochondrial respiratory chain has been shown to induce superoxide production and apoptosis, we investigated the effect of iodonium compounds on mitochondria-derived superoxide and apoptosis. Mitochondrial superoxide production was measured on both cultured cells and isolated rat-heart submitochondrial particles. Mitochondria function was examined by monitoring mitochondrial membrane potential. Apoptotic pathways were studied by measuring cytochrome c release and caspase 3 activation. Apoptosis was characterized by detecting DNA fragmentation on agarose gel and measuring propidium iodide- (PI-) stained subdiploid cells using flow cytometry. Our results showed that DPI could induce mitochondrial superoxide production. The same concentration of DPI induced apoptosis by decreasing mitochondrial membrane potential and releasing cytochrome c. Addition of antioxidants or overexpression of MnSOD significantly reduced DPI-induced mitochondrial damage, cytochrome c release, caspase activation, and apoptosis. These observations suggest that DPI can induce apoptosis via induction of mitochondrial superoxide. DPI-induced mitochondrial superoxide production may prove to be a useful model to study the signaling pathways of mitochondrial superoxide.

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Identification of two different Q-binding sites in QH2-cytochrome c oxidoreductase, using the Q analogue n-heptadecylmercapto-6-hydroxy-5,8-quinolinequinone.

The pK and mid-point redox potential of the Q-analogue 7-(n-heptadecyl)mercapto-6-hydroxy-5,8-quinolinequinone (HMHQQ) in aqueous medium are so low that under the experimental conditions used for studying the inhibition of electron transfer in submitochondrial particles only the oxidized, anionic form is present. The KD of the analogue, determined by comparing its inhibitory effect with that of n-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline N-oxide, is (0.003 + 0.24 x mg protein/ml) microM. The inhibition of succinate oxidation is pH dependent, due to a pH-dependent change in the overcapacity of the QH2-oxidizing system above the Q-reducing system. If the terminal part of the respiratory chain is reduced with ascorbate, the analogue inhibits the reduction of cytochrome b by substrate in the presence of antimycin with a similar KD value. In the absence of ascorbate the KD value is 100-times higher. The reduction of cytochrome b by substrate in particles treated with 2,3-dimercaptopropanol (BAL) + O2 is also sensitive to HMHQQ, with a KD value in between the two values given above. It is concluded that the QH2 oxidase system contains two different sites for interaction with ubiquinone. The site responsible for the inhibition of steady-state electron transfer is near the Fe-S cluster, as is shown by the sensitivity to the redox state of this cluster and by the effect of HMHQQ on the EPR signal of the reduced cluster. The second site, which is similar to the antimycin-binding site, is occupied only at higher concentrations of inhibitor. The affinity of HMHQQ for this site is not affected by the redox state of the Fe-S cluster.

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Three adenine nucleotide binding sites in F1-F0 mitochondrial ATPase as revealed by presteady-state and steady-state kinetics of ATP hydrolysis. Evidence for two inhibitory ADP-specific noncatalytic sites.

Preincubation of submitochondrial particles with ADP in the presence of Mg2+ results in the complete inhibition of ATPase which is slowly reactivated in the assay mixture containing ATP and the ATP regenerating system. Significantly, the rate of activation increases as the concentration of ADP in the preincubation mixture rises from 1 microM to 20 microM and reaches a constant value at higher ADP concentrations. The first-order rate constant for the activation process in the assay mixture is ATP-dependent at any level of inhibitory ADP. The data obtained strongly suggest that two ADP-specific inhibitory sites and one ATP-specific hydrolytic site are present in F1-F0 ATPase. Taking into account the (3 alpha.3 beta).gamma.delta.epsilon structure of F1, it is concluded that the synchronous discharge of ADP from two inhibitory sites during the activation occurs after ATP binds to the ATPase catalytic site.

Adenine Nucleotides↗

3' Esters of ADP as energy-transfer inhibitors and probes of the catalytic site of oxidative phosphorylation.

1. A large series of 3' esters of ADP has been synthesized. Several of these can serve as photoaffinity labels; others exhibit fluorescent properties. The corresponding AMP and ATP derivatives have also been synthesized in some cases. 2. The influence of the 3'-O-acyl nucleotides on energy-linked functions of beef-heart submitochondrial particles has been investigated. The following results were obtained. a) 3'Esters of ADP are powerful and highly specific inhibitors of oxidative phosphorylation. The inhibition is competitive to ADP and Ki values as low as 0.05 microM, for the 3'-O-(1)naphthoyl ester of ADP, could be observed. b) The inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation by 3' esters of ADP appears to be non-competitive versus inorganic phosphate. c) The nucleotide analogs are not phosphorylated themselves. The corresponding ATP analogs can not drive energy-linked process. d) The 3' esters of AMP are ineffective as inhibitors, whereas the ATP derivatives are only comparatively weak inhibitors. e) Uncoupled or solubilized ATPase is almost two orders of magnitude less sensitive against inhibition by 3' esters than coupled systems. The analogs exert maximal inhibition specifically in systems involving an 'energized' state of the coupling device. f) Azido-group-bearing analogs can be used for irreversible photoinactivation of the coupling ATPase. Photoinactivation also is most efficient when carried out with 'energized' particles. g) The inhibitory properties are similar also in ATP-driven NAD+ reduction by succinate, and in the uncoupler-sensitive ATP in equilibrium with Pi exchange. The required concentrations for half-maximal inhibition are somewhat higher than in oxidative phosphorylation, but lower than with uncoupled ATPase. 3. From molecular models, from substituent properties, and from the conditions required for inhibition it is concluded that these highly effective analogs of ADP may act as conformation-specific probes at the catalytic site of oxidative phosphorylation. The results are interpreted in terms of a model suggesting that, in the process of ATP synthesis, a hydrophobic cavity on the enzyme is exposed only in the energized state, accepting the large 3' substituent. The substituent is assumed to inhibit phosphoryl transfer and/or conformational transitions inherent in the process of ADP phosphorylation by steric hinderance.

Adenosine Diphosphate↗

Energy-linked transhydrogenation from NADPH to [14C]NADP.

Submitochondrial particles catalyze transhydrogenation from NADPH to [14C]NADP. This transhydrogenation is energy-linked, since its rate increases several-fold when the system is energized by succinate oxidation in the presence of rotenone (inhibitable by antimycin A or uncouplers), or by ATP hydrolysis (inhibitable by rutamycin or uncouplers). As in the case of transhydrogenation reactions from NAD(P)H to 3-ace-tylpyridine adenine dinucleotide phosphate and to thionicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, transhydrogenation from NADPH to [14C]NADP is also sensitive to treatment of the particles with trypsin or the arginyl residue modifier, butanedione. However, unlike the former reactions, transhydrogenation from NADPH to [14C]NADP cannot accumulate energy in the concentrations of the products, because, except for radioactivity, the nature and concentrations of the reactants and products remain unchanged throughout the course of the reaction. Therefore, the unrecoverable energy utilization by this region could be ascribed to an entropic component of the process, very likely an enzyme conformation change necessary for facilitation of hydride ion transfer from NADPH to [14C]NADP. This interpretation is in agreement with our previous kinetic evidence for enzyme conformation change associated with energy-linked transhydrogenation from NADH to 3-acetylpyridine adenine dinucleotide phosphate and thionicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, and with our conclusions regarding the mechanism of action of the transhydrogenase enzyme (Galante, Y.M., Lee, Y., and Hatefi, Y. (1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 9641-9646).

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Purification and characterization of two protein kinases from bovine heart mitochondrial membrane.

Two protein kinases (MPK1 and MPK2) were isolated from bovine heart mitochondria. After the solubilization of submitochondrial particles with cholate, these protein kinases were purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, Sepharose 6B gel filtration, and affinity chromatography on phosvitin-Sepharose. After sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the final preparation of MPK1 contained two major polypeptide bands (40,000 and 36,000 daltons). MPK2 contained one major polypeptide of 34,000 daltons. Under nondenaturing conditions, the molecular weights of MPK1 and MPK2 were estimated to be approximately 250,000 and 70,000-90,000, respectively. MPK1 had a pH optimum at 9.0 and MPK2 at 7.5. Both enzymes required Mg2+ for activity and responded poorly to Mn2+ or Ca2+. Both had similar apparent Km values for ATP and were not affected by either cyclic AMP or Ca2+-calmodulin. MKP1 phosphorylated threonine residues and MPK2 serine residues of casein. With beta casein as substrate, MPK1 was more active than MPK2, whereas with alpha casein, MPK2 was more active than MPK1.

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Energetics of heart mitochondria during acute phase of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in rats.

The energetics of heart mitochondria was studied in the acute phase of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in rats. Wistar rats were infected with 2 x 10(5) trypomastigote forms of the Y strain of T. cruzi, and heart mitochondria and submitochondrial particles isolated after 7 and 25 days of infection. Ultrastructure of mitochondria seemed to be preserved, but cytochrome c levels were significantly depressed. Respiratory control ratios (RCR) were decreased for glutamate and succinate oxidations, as a consequence of inhibition of respiration in state 3 and/or of stimulation of respiration in state 4. Stimulation of hydrolytic activity of FoF1-ATPase by energization of mitochondria was approx. 2-fold higher in relation to controls. Mitochondrial ATP concentration remained constant. In conclusion, during the acute phase of T. cruzi infection in rats there is an energy impairment at the level of heart mitochondria, but their ultrastructure and ATP concentration seem to be preserved; the maintenance of ATP may be due to an adaptative mechanism of the cell which includes inhibition of the hydrolytic activity of FoF1-ATPase.

Acute Disease↗

Sensitivity of respiratory chain activities to lipid peroxidation: effect of vitamin E deficiency.

Rats fed a vitamin E-depleted diet for 48 weeks had undetectable levels of vitamin E in the gastrocnemius muscle and liver, leading to elevated malondialdehyde levels in both tissues and an elevated GSH level in muscle. Skeletal-muscle mitochondria showed decreased mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) activities, whereas liver MRC activities were increased. Exposure of normal rat liver submitochondrial particles (SMPs) to an in vitro NADPH-dependent lipid peroxidation system resulted in a dose-dependent increase in lipid peroxidation and inhibition of complex I and complex IV activities. Complex I exhibited greater sensitivity to lipid peroxidation than complex IV. At low and high NADPH concentrations, the rate of lipid peroxidation and the level of enzyme inhibition were essentially the same in liver SMPs from both vitamin E-deficient and control rats, suggesting that under these conditions, the loss of vitamin E did not exacerbate the effects of either lipid peroxidation or enzyme inhibition. These results indicate that normal vitamin E levels in liver mitochondria are not required for protection against lipid peroxidation and are consistent with the normal liver mitochondrial function in vitamin E-deficient animals. This suggests other antioxidants, such as ubiquinol and GSH, may be more important in protecting liver mitochondria and MRC from lipid peroxidation.

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Two modes of irreversible inactivation of the mitochondrial electron-transfer system by tetradecanoic acid.

Bovine heart submitochondrial particles were incubated for 2-6 h at 37 degrees C with various concentrations of tetradecanoic acid, and the effects on the activities, the total acid-labile sulphide content and EPR spectra of the electron transfer system were studied. Two distinct time-dependent processes of the slow irreversible inactivation of the electron-transfer system were found. They differ in the concentration of tetradecanoic acid required. The more specific effect, induced by 100-400 nmol tetradecanoic acid per mg protein, consists of a selective blockage of electron transfer between the Fe-S clusters of the NADH dehydrogenase and ubiquinone, without damage to any of the Fe-S clusters. Higher concentrations of tetradecanoic acid caused gradual destruction of all Fe-S clusters of NADH dehydrogenase and of the 3-Fe cluster of succinate dehydrogenase, leading to complete inactivation of both NADH and succinate oxidation.

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