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Query: EC:1.6.5.3 (complex I)
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Defects of complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain are important causes of neurological disease. We report studies that demonstrate a severe deficiency of complex I activity with less severe abnormalities of complexes III and IV (less than 5, 63, and 30% of control values, respectively) in a skeletal muscle mitochondrial fraction from a 22-yr-old female with weakness, lactic acidemia, and the deposition of intramuscular neutral lipid. The observation that lipid accumulates in this and other patients with complex I deficiency suggests impaired mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation. To investigate this mechanism we have shown impaired flux through beta-oxidation [( U-14C]hexadecanoate oxidation was 66% of control rate) and accumulation of specific acyl-CoA ester intermediates. The changes in fatty acid metabolism in complex I deficiency are secondary to the reduced state within the mitochondrial matrix with low NAD+/NADH ratios.
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PMID:Impaired mitochondrial beta-oxidation in a patient with an abnormality of the respiratory chain. Studies in skeletal muscle mitochondria. 215 51

The binding of porcine heart mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase and beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase to bovine heart NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I), but not that of bovine heart alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex, is virtually abolished by 0.1 mM NADH. The malate dehydrogenase and beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA enzymes compete in part for the same binding site(s) on complex I as do the malate dehydrogenase and alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex enzymes. Associations between mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase and bovine serum albumin were observed. Subtle convection artifacts in short-time centrifugation tests of enzyme association with the Beckman Airfuge are described. Substrate channeling of NADH from both the mitochondrial and cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase isozymes to complex I and reduction of ubiquinone-1 were shown to occur in vitro by transient enzyme-enzyme complex formation. Excess apoenzyme causes little inhibition of the substrate channeling reaction with both malate dehydrogenase isozymes in spite of tighter equilibrium binding than the holoenzyme to complex I. This substrate channeling could, in principle, provide a dynamic microcompartmentation of mitochondrial NADH.
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PMID:Substrate channeling of NADH and binding of dehydrogenases to complex I. 250 78

It has been reported that the mitochondrial cytochromes and citrate cycle enzymes occur in constant proportions to each other and increase or decrease roughly in parallel in response to various stimuli. The purpose of this study was to determine whether this proportionality is an obligatory consequence of the way in which mitochondria are assembled. Severe iron deficiency was used to bring about decreases of the iron-containing constituents of the mitochondrial respiratory chain in skeletal muscle. Cytochrome c concentration and cytochrome oxidase activity were decreased approximately 50%, while succinate dehydrogenase and NADH dehydrogenase activities were decreased by 78% in iron-deficient muscle. On electron microscopic examination, mitochondria in iron-deficient muscles had relatively sparse numbers of cristae. The iron deficiency had little or no effect on the levels of a range of mitochondrial matrix enzymes, including citrate synthase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, fumarase, aspartate aminotransferase, 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, 3-ketoacid-CoA transferase, and acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase. These results show that the usual constant proportions between the constituents of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and matrix enzymes are not obligatory; they provide evidence that mitochondrial matrix enzymes and respiratory chain constituents can be incorporated into mitochondria independently and that the ratios between them can vary within wide limits.
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PMID:Perturbation of mitochondrial composition in muscle by iron deficiency. Implications regarding regulation of mitochondrial assembly. 302 53

A rapid decrease in male fertility in laboratory animals exposed to 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) has been suggested to be due, in part, to a postglycolytic inhibition of sperm carbohydrate metabolism. The present studies were performed to identify the specific site of DBCP-induced inhibition of intermediary metabolism. 14CO2 generation by epididymal sperm, isolated from Fischer 344 rats, was measured using radiolabeled tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle intermediates: acetyl CoA, citrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, and succinate. There was 0-28% inhibition of CO2 generation after addition of 0.5 mM DBCP and 81-98% inhibition with 3 mM DBCP, with all four substrates. The activities of alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, pyruvate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, and lactate dehydrogenase were not inhibited by DBCP. Since the DBCP-induced inhibition of metabolism of different substrates to CO2 was similar, and since DBCP did not inhibit enzyme activities of glycolysis or the TCA cycle, a common site of inhibition was suspected. In evaluations of mitochondrial electron transport chain activity, DBCP (3 mM) inhibited oxygen consumption resulting from metabolism of endogenous substrates plus alpha-ketoglutarate or malate by about 80%. When succinate, an FAD-dependent oxidation, was used as a substrate, oxygen consumption was not inhibited by DBCP. It is concluded that DBCP inhibits sperm carbohydrate metabolism at the NADH dehydrogenase step in the mitochondrial electron transport chain.
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PMID:A biochemical basis for 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane-induced male infertility: inhibition of sperm mitochondrial electron transport activity. 367 26

Addition of insulin or a physiological ratio of ketone bodies to buffer with 10 mM glucose increased efficiency (hydraulic work/energy from O2 consumed) of working rat heart by 25%, and the two in combination increased efficiency by 36%. These additions increased the content of acetyl CoA by 9- to 18-fold, increased the contents of metabolites of the first third of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle 2- to 5-fold, and decreased succinate, oxaloacetate, and aspartate 2- to 3-fold. Succinyl CoA, fumarate, and malate were essentially unchanged. The changes in content of TCA metabolites resulted from a reduction of the free mitochondrial NAD couple by 2- to 10-fold and oxidation of the mitochondrial coenzyme Q couple by 2- to 4-fold. Cytosolic pH, measured using 31P-NMR spectra, was invariant at about 7.0. The total intracellular bicarbonate indicated an increase in mitochondrial pH from 7.1 with glucose to 7.2, 7.5 and 7.4 with insulin, ketones, and the combination, respectively. The decrease in Eh7 of the mitochondrial NAD couple, Eh7NAD+/NADH, from -280 to -300 mV and the increase in Eh7 of the coenzyme Q couple, Eh7Q/QH2, from -4 to +12 mV was equivalent to an increase from -53 kJ to -60 kJ/2 mol e in the reaction catalyzed by the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase multienzyme complex (EC 1.6.5.3). The increase in the redox energy of the mitochondrial cofactor couples paralleled the increase in the free energy of cytosolic ATP hydrolysis, delta GATP. The potential of the mitochondrial relative to the cytosolic phases, Emito/cyto, calculated from delta GATP and delta pH on the assumption of a 4 H+ transfer for each ATP synthesized, was -143 mV during perfusion with glucose or glucose plus insulin, and decreased to -120 mV on addition of ketones. Viewed in this light, the moderate ketosis characteristic of prolonged fasting or type II diabetes appears to be an elegant compensation for the defects in mitochondrial energy transduction associated with acute insulin deficiency or mitochondrial senescence.
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PMID:Insulin, ketone bodies, and mitochondrial energy transduction. 776 57

1. We describe the acyl-CoA and acyl-carnitine esters which arise from the incubation of well-coupled State 3 rat skeletal-muscle mitochondrial fractions with [U-14C]hexadecanoate and [U-14C]hexadecanoyl-carnitine. 2. Acyl-CoA ester intermediates of chain length 16, 14, 12, 10 and 8 carbons were detected. 3. Although incubations were in steady state in respect of oxygen consumption, 14CO2 production and generation of acid-soluble radioactivity, quantitative analysis of acyl-CoA esters showed that steady state was not achieved in respect of all intermediates. 4. 3-Hydroxyacyl- and 2-enoyl-CoA and -carnitine esters were found under normoxic conditions. 5. Direct measurement of NAD+ and NADH shows that under identical incubation conditions our observations cannot be explained by gross perturbation of the [NAD+]/[NADH] ratio. 6. We hypothesize that there is a small pool of rapidly recycling NAD+ channelled between complex I of the respiratory chain and the newly described mitochondrial-inner-membrane-associated beta-oxidation trifunctional enzyme [Uchida, Izai, Orii and Hashimoto (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 1034-1041].
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PMID:Intramitochondrial control of the oxidation of hexadecanoate in skeletal muscle. A study of the acyl-CoA esters which accumulate during rat skeletal-muscle mitochondrial beta-oxidation of [U-14C]hexadecanoate and [U-14C]hexadecanoyl-carnitine. 842 53

1. The CoA and carnitine ester intermediates of mitochondrial beta-oxidation have not previously been quantified in liver disease, although there is some evidence that beta-oxidation is inhibited in alcoholic fatty liver. Mitochondria were isolated from needle liver biopsies from normal subjects, from patients with alcoholic fatty liver and patients with fatty liver of other aetiologies, incubated with 60 mumol/l [U-14C]hexadecanoate and the resultant CoA and carnitine esters were measured. 2. Although there was no significant difference in beta-oxidation flux between the patient groups, there was a significant rise in the proportion of 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA and 2-enoyl-CoA esters in patients with alcoholic fatty liver compared with normal subjects, and in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver, suggesting an inhibition at the level of 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase activity. 3. In alcoholic patients this difference could not be accounted for on the basis of the measured activity of short and long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenases, and it is suggested that either an inhibition of complex I activity or diminished amounts of ubiquinone are likely to be responsible for the observed accumulation of CoA and carnitine esters, which may contribute to the accumulation of triacylglycerols in alcoholic steatosis. In fatty liver of other aetiologies, short- and long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase activities were decreased.
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PMID:beta-Oxidation in human alcoholic and non-alcoholic hepatic steatosis. 877 38

Acidaminococcus fermentans is able to ferment glutamate to ammonia, CO2, acetate, butyrate, and H2. The molecular hydrogen (approximately 10 kPa; E' = -385 mV) stems from NADH generated in the 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase reaction (E degrees ' = -240 mV) of the hydroxyglutarate pathway. In contrast to growing cells, which require at least 5 mM Na+, a Na+-dependence of the H2-formation was observed with washed cells. Whereas the optimal glutamate fermentation rate was achieved already at 1 mM Na+, H2 formation commenced only at > 10 mM Na+ and reached maximum rates at 100 mM Na+. The acetate/butyrate ratio thereby increased from 2.0 at 1 mM Na+ to 3.0 at 100 mM Na+. A hydrogenase and an NADH dehydrogenase, both of which were detected in membrane fractions, are components of a model in which electrons, generated by NADH oxidation inside of the cytoplasmic membrane, reduce protons outside of the cytoplasmic membrane. The entire process can be driven by decarboxylation of glutaconyl-CoA, which consumes the protons released by NADH oxidation inside the cell. Hydrogen production commences exactly at those Na+ concentrations at which the electrogenic H+/Na+-antiporter glutaconyl-CoA decarboxylase is converted into a Na+/Na+ exchanger.
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PMID:Sodium ion-dependent hydrogen production in Acidaminococcus fermentans. 892 82

Defects in electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF) or its electron acceptor, electron transfer flavoprotein-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (ETF-QO), cause the human inherited metabolic disease glutaric acidemia type II. In this disease, electron transfer from nine primary flavoprotein dehydrogenases to the main respiratory chain is impaired. Among these dehydrogenases are the four chain length-specific flavoprotein dehydrogenases of fatty acid beta-oxidation. In this investigation, two mutations in the alpha subunit that have been identified in patients were expressed in Escherichia coli. Of the two mutant alleles, alphaT266M and alphaG116R, the former is the most frequent mutation found in patients with ETF deficiency. The crystal structure of human ETF shows that alphaG116 lies in a hydrophobic pocket, under a contact residue of the alpha/beta subunit interface, and that the hydroxyl hydrogen of alphaT266 is hydrogen-bonded to N(5) of the FAD; the amide backbone hydrogen of alphaT266 is hydrogen-bonded to C(4)-O of the flavin prosthetic group (Roberts, D. L., Frerman, F. E. and Kim, J-J. P. (1996) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 93, 14355-14360). Stable expression of the alphaG116R ETF required coexpression of the chaperonins, GroEL and GroES. alphaG116R ETF folds into a conformation different from the wild type, and is catalytically inactive in crude extracts. It is unstable and could not be extensively purified. The alphaT266M ETF was purified and characterized after stabilization to proteolysis in crude extracts. Although the global structure of this mutant protein is unchanged, its flavin environment is altered as indicated by absorption and circular dichroism spectroscopy and the kinetics of flavin release from the oxidized and reduced protein. The loss of the hydrogen bond at N(5) of the flavin and the altered flavin binding increase the thermodynamic stability of the flavin semiquinone by 10-fold relative to the semiquinone of wild type ETF. The mutation has relatively little effect on the reductive half-reaction of ETF catalyzed by sarcosine and medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenases which reduce the flavin to the semiquinone. However, kcat/Km of ETF-QO in a coupled acyl-CoA:ubiquinone reductase assay with oxidized alphaT266M ETF as substrate is reduced 33-fold; this decrease is due in largest part to a decrease in the rate of disproportionation of the alphaT266M ETF semiquinone catalyzed by ETF-QO.
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PMID:Expression and characterization of two pathogenic mutations in human electron transfer flavoprotein. 933 18

Ultrastructural analysis typically shows vertebrate striated muscles to possess mitochondria residing primarily in two locations. One population is interlaced throughout the myofibrils and another occurs directly beneath the cell membrane. The two populations of mitochondria can be separated and studied in vitro. Subsarcolemmal mitochondria (SSmt) are released by mechanical shearing of the tissue, whereas protease treatment is required to release the intermyofibrillar population (IMFmt). These methods were applied to rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) red muscle to investigate the possible existence of distinct populations in this tissue. The two populations were very similar in mitochondrial DNA content (mtDNA mg-1 mitochondrial protein) and enzymatically (activities of carnitine palmitoyl transferase, &bgr ;-hydroxyacyl CoA dehydrogenase, complex I, citrate synthase, cytochrome c oxidase expressed per milligram of mitochondrial protein). Respiration rates were the same for pyruvate and succinate, but IMFmt oxidized palmitoyl carnitine 26 % faster than SSmt (P<0.05). Apart from these minor differences in fatty acyl carnitine oxidation rates, no differences in biochemical or genetic properties were detected between populations. The lack of distinct subcellular populations in fish, in contrast to the situation in mammalian striated muscle, probably relates to the high mitochondrial volume density in fish red muscle.
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PMID:Are there distinct subcellular populations of mitochondria in rainbow trout red muscle? 967 7


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