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Query: EC:1.3.5.1 (succinate dehydrogenase)
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QP-S, a ubiquinone (Q) protein, accepts electrons from succinate through succinate dehydrogenase (SDH). A new method has produced a preparation of QP-S which has a different amino acid composition and SDS gel electrophoretic pattern from that of the old preparation (Biochemistry 19, 3579-3585 (1980)). The new preparation contains less than 1 nmol heme/mg protein; the activity of the preparation was not proportional to its heme content. A thenoyltrifluoroacetone sensitive free radical signal was detected by EPR spectroscopy in succinate-Q reductase reconstituted from this QP-S and SDH; the characteristics of this species identify it as ubisemiquinone. At pH 7.4, the Em of the two electron step was about 70 mV with E1 = 5 mV and E2 = 125 mV. The properties of the radical differed slightly from those of "Qs" radical in more intact preparations (e.g. submitochondrial particles). The present is the simplest system in which such a succinate reducible ubisemiquinone free radical has been demonstrated.
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PMID:Stabilized ubisemiquinone in reconstituted succinate ubiquinone reductase. 303 47

Antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity has been detected in pure, reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase. The enzyme catalyzes electron transfer from succinate to cytochrome c at a rate of 0.7 mumole succinate oxidized per min per mg protein, in the presence of 100 microM cytochrome c. This activity, which is about 2% of that of reconstitutive (the ability of succinate dehydrogenase to reconstitute with coenzyme ubiquinone-binding proteins (QPs) to form succinate-ubiquinone reductase) or succinate-phenazine methosulfate activity in the preparation, differs from antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity detected in submitochondrial particles or isolated succinate-cytochrome c reductase. The Km for cytochrome c for the former is too high to be measured. The Km for the latter is about 4.4 microM, similar to that of antimycin-sensitive succinate-cytochrome c activity in isolated succinate-cytochrome c reductase, suggesting that antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c activity of succinate-cytochrome c reductase probably results from incomplete inhibition by antimycin. Like reconstitutive activity of succinate dehydrogenase, the antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c activity of succinate dehydrogenase is sensitive to oxygen; the half-life is about 20 min at 0 degrees C at a protein concentration of 23 mg/ml. In the presence of QPs, the antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c activity of succinate dehydrogenase disappears and at the same time a thenoyltrifluoroacetone-sensitive succinate-ubiquinone reductase activity appears. This suggests that antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity of succinate dehydrogenase appears when succinate dehydrogenase is detached from the membrane or from QPs. Reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase oxidizes succinate using succinylated cytochrome c as electron acceptor, suggesting that a low potential intermediate (radical) may be involved. This suggestion is confirmed by the detection of an unknown radical by spin trapping techniques. When a spin trap, alpha-phenyl-N-tert-butylnitrone (PBN), is added to a succinate oxidizing system containing reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase, a PBN spin adduct is generated. Although this PBN spin adduct is identical to that generated by xanthine oxidase, indicating that a perhydroxy radical might be involved, the insensitivity of this antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity to superoxide dismutase and oxygen questions the nature of this observed radical.
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PMID:An antimycin-insensitive succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity in pure reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase. 303 86

The effects of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion (MPP+) on activities of enzyme complexes in the electron transport system were studied using isolated mitochondrial preparations from C57BL/6J mouse brains. Both MPTP and MPP+ dose-dependently inhibited activity of NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (EC 1.6.5.3). The inhibition was reversible. Preincubation of freeze-thawed mitochondria with MPTP or MPP+ had no effect on the inhibition; however, when nonfrozen mitochondria were used, NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase activity was reduced to 46% of that in the nonincubated sample after a 5-min preincubation with MPTP and to 77% of that in the nonincubated sample after a 5-min preincubation with MPP+. Kinetic analyses revealed that inhibition of MPTP was noncompetitive and that of MPP+ uncompetitive with respect to NADH. On the other hand, inhibition of MPTP was uncompetitive and that of MPP+ noncompetitive with respect to ubiquinone. Succinate-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex II), dihydroubiquinone-cytochrome c oxidoreductase (complex III), and ferrocytochrome c-oxygen oxidoreductase (EC 1.9.3.1) activities were either slightly inhibited or not inhibited by MPTP or MPP+. The significance of these findings is discussed in relation to the mechanism of MPTP-induced neuronal degeneration.
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PMID:Effects of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine and 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion on activities of the enzymes in the electron transport system in mouse brain. 310 73

The oxidative metabolic potential of Setaria digitata, a filarial parasite found in the intraperitoneal cavity of cattle, was investigated. These worms showed active wriggling movements which were not affected by respiratory poisons such as cyanide, rotenone and malonate. They also possessed cyanide-insensitive and glucose-independent oxygen consumption pathways. By differential centrifugation of sucrose homogenates, a fraction containing mitochondria-like particles was obtained in which the activity of the marker enzyme, succinate dehydrogenase, was recovered. This fraction catalysed succinate- and NADH-dependent reduction of both cytochrome c and dyes. Oxygen uptake found with succinate, NADH and ascorbate as substrates was not sensitive to cyanide. Cytochromes could not be detected in either this fraction or homogenates of the worms. H2O2 generation with a number of substrates and lipid peroxidation by measuring malondialdehyde formed as well as by accompanying oxygen uptake were demonstrated in the mitochondria-like particles. A lipid quinone, possibly with a short side chain and related to ubiquinone, was detected in the worms. The results suggested the existence of two cyanide-insensitive oxygen-consuming reactions in Setaria: one respiratory substrate-independent lipid peroxidation, and a second substrate-dependent reaction that requires an auto-oxidizable quinone but not a cytochrome system.
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PMID:Oxidative activities in mitochondria-like particles from Setaria digitata, a filarial parasite. 322 30

The aerobic respiratory chain of Escherichia coli contains two terminal oxidases, the cytochrome o complex and the cytochrome d complex. These both function as ubiquinol-8 oxidases and reduce molecular oxygen to water. Electron flux is funneled from a variety of dehydrogenases, such as succinate dehydrogenase, through ubiquinone-8, to either of the terminal oxidases. A strain was examined which lacks the intact cytochrome d complex, but which overproduces one of the two subunits of this complex, cytochrome b558. This cytochrome, in the absence of the other subunit of the oxidase complex, does not possess catalytic activity. It is shown that the extent of reduction of cytochrome b558 in the E. coli membrane monitors the extent of reduction of the quinone pool in the membrane. The activity of each purified oxidase was examined in phospholipid vesicles as a function of the amount of ubiquinone-8 incorporated in the bilayer. A ratio of ubiquinol-8:phospholipid as low as 1:200 is sufficient to saturate each oxidase. The maximal turnover of the oxidases in the reconstituted system is considerably faster than observed in E. coli membranes, demonstrating that the rate-limiting step in the E. coli respiratory chain is at the dehydrogenases which feed electrons into the system.
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PMID:Cytochrome b558 monitors the steady state redox state of the ubiquinone pool in the aerobic respiratory chain of Escherichia coli. 330 37

Data on succinate-ubiquinone reductase are critically reviewed. The structural and catalytic properties of succinate dehydrogenase and succinate-ubiquinone reductase are compared. The redox components, active centers and proteins involved in the enzyme interaction with ubiquinone are described. Some structural and kinetic features of the succinate-ubiquinone reductase as the respiratory chain component and feasible mechanisms of regulation of the succinate-ubiquinone reductase activity are discussed.
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PMID:[Succinate-ubiquinone reductase site of the respiratory chain]. 354 59

Experimental evidence is presented showing the existence of an NADH-consuming enzyme in heart mitochondria, in addition to the NADH--ubiquinone oxidase of complex I. In contrast to the latter, the novel enzyme is accessible from the extramitochondrial space. Removal of the outer membranes from intact mitochondria had no influence on exogenous NADH consumption, indicating its location at the cytosolic face of the inner membrane. The enzyme could be solubilized from this membrane and purified by sedimentation through preformed sucrose gradients. Liver mitochondria exhibited no oxidation of external NADH, suggesting that the enzyme is organo-specific. The "exogenous NADH dehydrogenase" of heart mitochondria was found to introduce reducing equivalents into the respiratory chain before the rotenone block, indicating that the enzyme is associated with complex I. The enzyme was also demonstrated to be involved in electron flow from the respiratory chain to exogenous electron acceptors, including NAD+. This permitted us to elicit the existence of an energy-dependent reversed electron flow from complex II to complex I. The redox shuttle established by the novel enzyme could be of significance for the regulation of cellular NADH and the metabolic activation of foreign compounds such as adriamycin.
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PMID:Demonstration of the existence of an organo-specific NADH dehydrogenase in heart mitochondria. 369 7

The inhibitory effect of pyridoxal phosphate on the Triton X-100 solubilized purified bovine heart succinate-ubiquinone reductase (Choudhry, Z.M., Gavrikova, E.V., Kotlyar, A.B., Tushurashvilli, P.R. and Vinogradov, A.D. (1985) FEBS Lett. 182, 171-175) was studied. The kinetics of the enzyme inactivation by pyridoxal phosphate was found to be strongly dependent both qualitatively and quantitatively on the concentration of the protein-detergent complexes. In the diluted system the inactivation of the ubiquinone-depleted enzyme was completely prevented by the saturating concentrations of Q2, carboxin, thenoiltrifluoroacetone and pentachlorophenol, i.e., by the substrate and specific inhibitors of the enzyme. The protective effects of Q2 and the inhibitors was employed to quantitate the affinities of the ligands to their specific binding sites. Strong difference in the affinity of Q2 to the reduced and oxidized enzyme was found. When the soluble reconstitutively active succinate dehydrogenase was treated with pyridoxal phosphate, the reactivity of the enzyme towards low ferricyanide concentrations and its reconstitutive activity was significantly protected against aerobic inactivation.
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PMID:Studies on the succinate dehydrogenating system. Interaction of the mitochondrial succinate-ubiquinone reductase with pyridoxal phosphate. 370 47

We have established the participation of a mobile redox pool in the respiratory chain of anaerobically grown bacterium Paracoccus denitrificans. In testing the kinetical homogeneity of the pool it was found that the ratio of fluxes of electron transport toward the terminal acceptors oxygen and nitrate was coincident for the respiratory substrates NADH and succinate; this provides evidence against the preferential link of one dehydrogenase with a distinct terminal enzyme through the separate pool of ubiquinone. The deviation from the expected behavior observed in comparing the titration of NADH oxidase and succinate oxidase with respiratory inhibitors such as mucidin (inhibitor in the bc1 region) or cyanide can be accounted for by the activation of succinate dehydrogenase upon the increase in the reduced state of respiratory components during the titration.
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PMID:Is the ubiquinone pool in the respiratory chain of the bacterium Paracoccus denitrificans really unhomogeneous? 381 63

The consequence of blocking the de novo synthesis of ubiquinone (coenzyme Q) on mitochondrial ubiquinone content and respiratory function was studied in cultured C1300 (Neuro 2A) murine neuroblastoma cells. Mevinolin, a competitive inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase, was used to suppress the synthesis of mevalonate, an essential precursor for the isoprenoid side chain of ubiquinone. At a concentration of 25 microM, mevinolin completely inhibited the incorporation of [3H]acetate into ubiquinone, isolated from cell extracts by two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography. Similar results were obtained when [14C]tyrosine was used as a precursor for the quinone ring. Through the use of reverse-phase thin-layer chromatography, it was established that the principal product of the ubiquinone pathway in murine neuroblastoma cells was ubiquinone-9. Inhibition of ubiquinone synthesis for 24h in cells cultured in the presence of 10% fetal calf serum (which contains 0.14 nmol of ubiquinone/ml of serum) resulted in a 40-57% decline in the concentration of ubiquinone in the mitochondria. However, the activities of succinate-cytochrome c reductase and succinate dehydrogenase in whole-cell homogenates or mitochondria were not inhibited. The state 3 and uncoupled rates of respiration, determined by polarographic measurements of oxygen consumption in homogenates and mitochondria, were elevated slightly in the mevinolin-treated cells. The data demonstrate that, although mevalonate synthesis is important for the maintenance of the intramitochondrial ubiquinone pool in cultured cells, major changes in the ubiquinone content of the mitochondria can occur in intact cells without perturbation of respiratory function. However, the coincidence of decreased mitochondrial ubiquinone concentration and the inhibition of cell cycling previously observed in mevinolin-treated cells (Maltese, W.A. (1984) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 120, 454-460) suggests that the availability of ubiquinone may play a role in the regulation of mitochondrial and cellular proliferation.
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PMID:Relation of mevalonate synthesis to mitochondrial ubiquinone content and respiratory function in cultured neuroblastoma cells. 385 88


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