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Query: EC:1.3.5.1 (succinate dehydrogenase)
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The succinate dehydrogenase isolated from Bacillus subtilis was found to catalyze the oxidation of succinate with hydrophilic quinones. Either naphthoquinones or benzoquinones served as acceptors. The enzyme activity increased with the redox potential of the quinone. The highest turnover number was commensurate with that of the bacterial succinate respiration in vivo. The succinate dehydrogenase was similarly active in fumarate reduction with quinols. The highest activity was obtained with the most electronegative quinol. The fumarate reductase isolated from Wolinella succinogenes catalyzed succinate oxidation with quinones and fumarate reduction with the corresponding quinols at activities similar to those of the B. subtilis enzyme. Succinate oxidation by the lipophilic quinones, ubiquinone or vitamin K-1, was monitored as cytochrome c reduction using proteoliposomes containing succinate dehydrogenase together with the cytochrome bc1 complex. The activity with ubiquinone or vitamin K-1 was commensurate with the succinate respiratory activity of bacteria or of the bacterial membrane fraction. The results suggest that menaquinone is involved in the succinate respiration of B. subtilis, although its redox potential is unfavorable.
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PMID:Reactivity of the Bacillus subtilis succinate dehydrogenase complex with quinones. 165 27

We investigated the kinetics of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, proton leak, and phosphorylating subsystems of liver mitochondria from mannoheptulose-treated and control rats. Mannoheptulose treatment raises glucagon and lowers insulin; it had no effect on the kinetics of the mitochondrial proton leak or phosphorylating subsystems, but the respiratory chain from succinate to oxygen was stimulated. Previous attempts to detect any stimulation of cytochrome c oxidase by glucagon are shown by flux control analysis to have used inappropriate assay conditions. To investigate the site of stimulation of the respiratory chain we measured the relationship between the thermodynamic driving force and respiration rate for the span succinate to coenzyme Q, the cytochrome bc1 complex and cytochrome c oxidase. Hormone treatment of rats altered the kinetics of electron transport from succinate to coenzyme Q in subsequently isolated mitochondria and activated succinate dehydrogenase. The kinetics of electron transport through the cytochrome bc1 complex were not affected. Effects on cytochrome c oxidase were small or nonexistent.
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PMID:Stimulation of the electron transport chain in mitochondria isolated from rats treated with mannoheptulose or glucagon. 217 25

The inhibitory effects of pure galloylglucose (1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-galloyl-beta-D-glucose) on the respiratory chain of rat liver mitochondria were investigated. The respiratory control ratio (RCR) decreased by 50% on addition of 20 microM pentagalloylglucose to highly coupled mitochondria, but the adenosine-5'-diphosphate/oxygen (ADP/O) ratio decreased only slightly. The RCR disappeared and the ADP/O ratio could not be measured at concentrations of pentagalloylglucose above 30 microM. On the other hand, the uncoupler-induced oxygen consumption was also inhibited. These findings suggest that pentagalloylglucose at low concentrations inhibits the electron transport system to decrease the RCR, but scarcely impairs the membrane, practically retaining the coupled reaction, while at high concentrations it impairs the structural integrity of the mitochondrial membrane. Pentagalloylglucose competitively inhibited succinate dehydrogenase activity, and noncompetitively inhibited reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) dehydrogenase and ubiquinol-1 oxidase activities of submitochondrial particles (SMP). However, it did not show significant inhibition of the cytochrome c oxidase activity of SMP. It is thus concluded that pentagalloylglucose, which is the lowest-molecular-weight component of tannic acid, exerts its effect on mitochondrial respiration and oxidative phosphorylation through action on the membrane and on succinate dehydrogenase, NADH dehydrogenase and cytochrome bc1 complex of mitochondria.
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PMID:The effects of 1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-galloyl-beta-D-glucose on rat liver mitochondrial respiration. 263 Jan

A method has been developed for purification of highly active ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase (cytochrome bc1) complexes from wild-type Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Rhodobacter capsulatus MT1131, bovine heart and yeast mitochondria. This is the first report of the isolation of cytochrome bc1 complex from a wild-type strain of Rb. sphaeroides and from any strain of Rb. capsulatus. The purification involves extraction of membranes with dodecyl maltoside and two successive DEAE column chromatography steps. All of the resulting bc1 complexes are free of succinate dehydrogenase and cytochrome c oxidase activities. The purified bc1 complexes from both photosynthetic bacteria contain four polypeptide subunits, although the molecular weights of some of their subunits differ. They are also free of reaction center and light-harvesting pigments and polypeptides. The turnover number of the Rb. sphaeroides complex is 128 s-1, and that of the Rb. capsulatus complex is 64 s-1. The bc1 complex from bovine heart contains eight polypeptides and has a turnover number of 1152 s-1, while the yeast complex contains nine polypeptides and has a turnover number of 219 s-1. The activities of these complexes are equal to or better than those commonly obtained by previously reported methods. This method of purification is relatively simple, reproducible, and yields cytochrome bc1 complexes which largely retain the turnover number of the starting material and are pure on the basis of optical spectra, enzymatic activities and polypeptide composition. The purification of cytochrome bc1 complexes from energy-transducing membranes which differ markedly in their lipid and protein composition makes it likely that with minor modifications this method could be applied to species other than those described here.
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PMID:Purification of highly active cytochrome bc1 complexes from phylogenetically diverse species by a single chromatographic procedure. 303 52

We have studied a 17-year-old girl with lactic acidosis (3-18 mEq/liter) and progressive muscle weakness since 9 years of age. Morphological findings in muscle were of a typical ragged red myopathy with multiple collections of bizarre mitochondria, some containing paracrystalline inclusions. The carnitine content of serum and muscle was normal, as were the activities of carnitine palmitoyltransferase, carnitine octanoyltransferase, and carnitine acetyltransferase in the patient's muscle. Measurement of the enzymes of oxidative phosphorylation in both crude muscle homogenates and mitochondrial fractions showed close to normal activities of cytochrome c oxidase, succinate dehydrogenase, and ATPase. In contrast, succinate cytochrome c reductase activity was greatly reduced in the patient, being 0.035 mumol/min/g tissue in whole muscle (controls 1.16 +/- 0.47 mumol/min/g tissue) and 8 nmol/min/mg protein in the mitochondria (control, 340 nmol/min/mg protein). Rotenonesensitive NADH-cytochrome c reductase was also undetectable in the patient's mitochondria. Spectral analysis of cytochromes showed decrease of reducible cytochrome b to 16% of the control. These results indicate a defect of ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase or the cytochrome bc1 segment (complex III) of the electron transport chain. Antibody-binding studies of the individual components of complex III showed additional deficiencies of core proteins I and II and peptide VI, indicating a more widespread defect of complex III than was evident from spectral analysis and enzyme activity measurements alone. Urine organic acid analysis after fasting and following a medium chain triglyceride load showed unusually high levels of lactate and 3-hydroxybutyrate, lower than expected levels of acetoacetate and dicarboxylic acids, and the presence of several other metabolites suggesting a disturbed citric acid cycle and redox state.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Lactic acidosis and mitochondrial myopathy associated with deficiency of several components of complex III of the respiratory chain. 609 35

The linear sequence of steps involved in the oxidation of extramitochondrial succinate by O2 in bovine heart mitochondria was examined by a steady-state kinetic method to determine whether or not freely diffusible intermediates occur between the various inhibitor-sensitive steps. The kinetic method is based on the facts (1) that if two inhibitor-sensitive steps within a sequence are linked by a freely diffusible intermediate, inhibition of one will make the other less rate limiting in the overall reaction and thus will increase the amount of inhibitor of the other step required for half-maximal inhibition of the overall reaction, and (2) that if the two steps are not linked in this manner, inhibition of one will make the other more rate limiting and thus will decrease the amount of inhibitor of the other required for half-maximal inhibition. These two types of "coupling relationships" between steps were designated as "sequential" and "fixed," respectively. The results indicate the existence of freely diffusible intermediates (sequential coupling relationships) between the succinate transport and succinate dehydrogenase reactions, between the succinate dehydrogenase and cytochrome bc1 reactions, and between the cytochromes bc1 and aa3 reactions. Uncoupling respiration from phosphorylation results in the coupling relationship between the bc1 and aa3 reactions becoming partially fixed. This change is accompanied by marked decreases in the degrees to which the bc1 and aa3 reactions limit the overall reaction and appears to account for the large uncoupler-induced releases of inhibition at the levels of the bc1 and aa3 reactions observed previously by others. It is suggested that cytochrome c is the freely diffusible intermediate between the bc1 and aa3 reactions and that the uncoupler-induced changes occur as a result of formation of functional and highly efficient supercomplexes between cytochrome c and the cytochromes bc1 and aa3 complexes.
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PMID:Steady-state kinetics of the overall oxidative phosphorylation reaction in heart mitochondria. Determination of the coupling relationships between the respiratory reactions and miscellaneous observations concerning rate-limiting steps. 610 Feb 96

1. Evidence is presented for the presence of a stable ubisemiquinone pair in the vicinity of iron-sulphur centre S-3, based on its thermodynamic and spin relaxation properties. 2. These semiquinones are coupled by dipolar interaction; quantitative analysis of the signals of the spin-coupled semiquinones (at pH 7.4) gives midpoint redox potentials E1 (oxidized to semiquinone state) and E2 (semiquinone to fully reduced state) of 140 and 80mV, respectively, for individual ubiquinones. 3. Values of pKS (pK of the semiquinone form) below 6.5 and pKR (pK of the fully reduced ubiquinone) of about 8.0 or above were estimated from the pH-dependence of the midpoint potentials of the spin coupled signals. Thus the ubisemiquinone associated with succinate dehydrogenase (designated as SQS) functions mostly in the anionic form of the physiological pH range. 4. Theonyltrifluoroacetone, a specific inhibitor of the succinate-ubiquinone reductase segment of the respiratory chain, destabilized the intermediate redox state; thus it quenches both the g = 2.00 signal and ubisemiquinone (SQS) and split signals from the spin coupled pair. This inhibitor has no significant effect on another bound ubisemiquinone species present in the cytochrome bc1 region (designated as SQC). 5. The possible function and location of these stabilized ubisemiquinone species were discussed in connection with Site-II energy transduction.
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PMID:Studies on the stabilized ubisemiquinone species in the succinate-cytochrome c reductase segment of the intact mitochondrial membrane system. 626 61

The pathway of NADH oxidation in the procyclic Trypanosoma brucei brucei was investigated in a crude mitochondrial membrane fraction and in whole cells permeabilized with digitonin. NADH:cytochrome c reductase activity was 75% inhibited by concentrations of antimycin that inhibited 95% succinate:cytochrome c reductase activity suggesting that the major pathway for NADH oxidation in the mitochondria involved the cytochrome bc1 complex of the electron transfer chain. Both NADH:cytochrome c and NADH:ubiquinone reductase activities were inhibited 80-90% by rotenone indicating the presence of a complex I-like NADH dehydrogenase in the mitochondrion of trypanosomes. In whole cells permeabilized with low concentrations of digitonin, the oxidation of malate, proline and glucose (in the presence of salicylhydroxamic acid, the inhibitor of the alternate oxidase) was inhibited 30-50% by rotenone. The presence of an alternative pathway for NADH oxidation involving fumarate reductase was indicated by the observation that malonate, the specific inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase, inhibited 30-35% the rate of oxygen uptake with malate and glucose as substrates in the digitonin-permeabilized cells. We conclude that in the mitochondrion of the procyclic form of T. brucei, NADH is preferentially oxidized by a rotenone-sensitive NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase; however, NADH can also be oxidized to some extent by the enzyme fumarate reductase present in the mitochondrion of T. brucei.
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PMID:Oxidation of NADH by a rotenone and antimycin-sensitive pathway in the mitochondrion of procyclic Trypanosoma brucei brucei. 807 26

Detailed respiration studies on isolated liver mitochondria from streptozotocin-induced diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats revealed a disease-associated decrease in the ADP/O ratio, a marker for mitochondrial ability to couple the consumption of oxygen to the phosphorylation of ADP. This decrease was observed following induction of respiration with glutamate/malate, succinate, or duroquinol, which enter the electron transport chain selectively at complexes I (NADH dehydrogenase), II (succinate dehydrogenase), or III (cytochrome bc1 complex), respectively. These data, coupled with studies using respiratory inhibitors (most importantly antimycin A and myxothiazol), localize at least a portion of this defect to a single site within the electron transport chain (center P in the Q-cycle portion of complex III). These results suggest that liver mitochondria from diabetic animals may generate increased levels of reactive oxygen species at the portion of the electron transport chain already established as the major site of mitochondrial free radical generation. The reduction in the ADP/O ratio occurred in mitochondria that do not have overt defects in the respiratory control ratio or in State 3 and State 4 respiration. The data in this paper suggest that defects in center P of the electron transport chain likely increase mitochondrial exposure to oxidants in the diabetic. This data may partially explain the evidence of altered exposure and/or response to reactive species in mitochondria from diabetics. This work thus provides further clues to the interaction between oxidative stress and diabetes-associated mitochondrial dysfunction.
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PMID:Defects at center P underlie diabetes-associated mitochondrial dysfunction. 911 51

Production of superoxide anion (O-2), measured as the chemiluminescence of the 2-methyl-6-(p-methoxyphenyl)-3, 7-dihydroimidazo[1,2-a]pyrazin-3-one hydrochloride (MCLA)-O-2 adduct, was observed during electron transfer from succinate to cytochrome c by reconstituted succinate-cytochrome c reductase-phospholipid vesicles replenished with succinate dehydrogenase. Addition of carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone or detergent to the reconstituted reductase-phospholipid vesicles abolished O-2 production, suggesting that O-2 generation is caused by the membrane potential generated during electron transfer through the cytochrome bc1 complex. Production of O-2 was also observed during electron transfer from succinate to cytochrome c by antimycin-treated reductase, in which approximately 99.7% of the reductase activity was inhibited. The rate of O-2 production was closely related to the rate of antimycin-insensitive cytochrome c reduction. Factors affecting antimycin-insensitive reduction of cytochrome c also affected O-2 production and vice versa. When the oxygen concentration in the system was decreased, the rate of O-2 production and cytochrome c reduction by antimycin-treated reductase decreased. When the concentrations of MCLA and cytochrome c were increased, the rate of O-2 production and cytochrome c reduction by antimycin-treated reductase increased. The rate of antimycin-insensitive cytochrome c reduction was sensitive to Qo site inhibitors such as 5-undecyl-6-hydroxy-4,7-dioxobenzothiazole. These results indicate that generation of O-2 during the oxidation of ubiquinol by the cytochrome bc1 complex results from a leakage of the second electron of ubiquinol from its Q cycle electron transfer pathway to interact with oxygen. The electron-leaking site is located at the reduced cytochrome b566 or ubisemiquinone of the Qo site because addition of MCLA to antimycin-treated cytochrome bc1 complex, in the presence of catalytic amounts of succinate-cytochrome c reductase, delayed cytochrome b reduction by succinate. In the presence of oxidized cytochrome c, purified succinate dehydrogenase also catalyzed oxidation of succinate to generate O-2. When succinate dehydrogenase was reconstituted with the bc1 particles to form succinate-cytochrome c reductase, the production of O-2 diminished. These results suggest that reduced FAD of succinate dehydrogenase is the electron donor for oxygen to produce O-2 in the absence of their immediate electron acceptor and in the presence of cytochrome c.
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PMID:Generation of superoxide anion by succinate-cytochrome c reductase from bovine heart mitochondria. 985 50


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