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There exists considerable controversy regarding membrane topography in vesicles derived by osmotic lysis of spheroplasts of Gram-negative bacteria. It has been reported by others that bee venom can be used to quantitate the portion of a heterogeneous vesicle population with an inside-out orientation by determining the degree of loss of crypticity of NADH dehydrogenase activity. We have demonstrated that a major component of bee venom, melittin, causes an increase in the activity of several different respiratory enzymes in isolated membrane vesicles of Paracoccus denitrificans. The degree of stimulation produced by melittin is dependent upon (i) the nature of the respiratory substrates, (ii) the pH, (iii) the presence of Mg2+, (iv) the melittin: membrane protein ratio, and (v) the growth history of the cells from which the membrane vesicles were derived. Melittin-induced enhancement of TMPD:ascorbate and cytochrome c oxidase activities cannot be accounted for by increased accessibility of nonpermeant substrate to the interior of the vesicle. The stimulatory effect of melittin may rely in part on its ability to alter the proton permeability of the membrane thereby abolishing respiratory control. Collectively these observations call into question the usefulness of bee venom melittin in quantitative analyses of membrane topography. These results are consistent with the postulated existence of a homogeneous vesicle population in which the topography of the NADH dehydrogenase is different from that of the intact cell.
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PMID:The use of bee venom melittin to assess the topography of membrane vesicles derived from Paracoccus denitrificans. 625 50

Local anesthetics and alcohols were found to inhibit mitochondrial electron transport at several points along the chain. THe anesthetics employed were the tertiary amines procaine, tetracaine, dibucaine, and chlorpromazine, and the alcohols were n-butamol, n-pentanol, n-hexanol, and benzyl alcohol. Uncoupled sonic submitochondrial particles from beef heart and rat liver were studied. We report the following: (1) All of the anesthetics were found to inhibit each of the segments of the electron transport chain assayed; these included cytochrome c oxidase, durohydroquinone oxidase, succinate oxidase, NADH oxidase, succinate dehydrogenase, succinate-cytochrome c oxidoreductase, and NADH-cytochrome c oxidoreductase. (2) NADH oxidase and NADH-cytochrome c oxidoreductase required the lowest concentration of anesthetic for inhibition, and cytochrome c oxidase required the highest concentrations. (3) We conclude that there are several points along the chain at which inhibition occurs, the most sensitive being in the region of Complex I (NADH dehydrogenase). (4) Beef heart submitochondrial particles are less sensitive to inhibition than are rat liver particles. (5) Low concentrations of several of the anesthetics gave enhancement of electron transport activity, whereas higher concentrations of the same agents caused inhibition. (6) The concentrations of anesthetics (alcohol and tertiary amine) which gave 50% inhibition of NADH oxidase were lower than the reported concentrations required for blockage of frog sciatic nerve.
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PMID:Multiple sites of inhibition of mitochondrial electron transport by local anesthetics. 626 99

Ischemic myocardium was produced by occluding the left circumflex coronary artery in anesthetized dogs. Autolyzed myocardium was produced by incubating transmural samples of canine left ventricle at 37 degrees C. Tissue pH was recorded continuously in each model using a microcombination pH electrode impaled into the midmyocardium. The activities of the five mitochondrial inner membrane enzyme complexes of electron transport and coupled oxidative phosphorylation were assayed as a function of time of ischemia or autolysis. While the activities of complex II (succinate-CoQ reductase) and IV (cytochrome c oxidase) were completely stable, that of complex I (NADH-CoQ reductase) decreased markedly, but largely only after 20 min of ischemia or autolysis. At 20 min and beyond, the decrease in the activity of complex I paralleled closely the decrease in whole mitochondrial oxygen uptake with NAD-linked substrates in both models. The activity of complex III (CoQH2-c reductase) decreased at a more gradual rate during ischemia or autolysis, and its rate of decrease paralleled that of succinate-supported oxygen uptake. The activity of complex V (oligomycin-sensitive ATPase) decreased most rapidly (by 40% in only 5 min of autolysis) but nearly leveled off beyond 20 min in the two models. A strikingly similar pattern of differential enzyme lability was observed in isolated control mitochondria incubated at lowered pH values. The results demonstrate 1) differential enzyme lability within the mitochondrial inner membrane, 2) a connection between severity of acidosis and the degree of enzyme activity loss, and 3) the usefulness of simple tissue autolysis as an analogue of in situ myocardial ischemia.
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PMID:Mitochondrial complexes I, II, III, IV, and V in myocardial ischemia and autolysis. 630 12

A yeast strain (SP1) resistant to glucose repression modified simultaneously in the fermentative and in the oxidative pathways (loss of alcohol dehydrogenase I and over production of cytochrome a + a3, being insensitive to the glucose effect) developed a secondary mitochondrial hydrogen pathway. Oxidative phosphorylation was measured with exogenous NADH as substrate on mitochondria derived from repressed or derepressed cells. In this strain, antimycin A promotes a partial inhibition of NADH oxidation but a complete inhibition of phosphorylation. Amytal partially inhibits oxidation of NADH but not phosphorylation. KCN inhibits NADH oxidation in a biphasic way (first level 0.1 mM, second level 5 mM) but phosphorylation was fully inhibited by 0.1 mM KCN. This alternative but non-phosphorylating pathway is insensitive to salicyl hydroxamate. The external NADH dehydrogenase, like cytochrome c oxidase is partially insensitive to catabolite repression. These results provide evidence for the presence in strain SP1 of an alternative mitochondrial pathway, going from the external NADH dehydrogenase to an oxidase, different from the normal NADH dehydrogenase ubiquinone pathway.
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PMID:Evidence for an alternative and non-phosphorylating pathway for NADH reoxidation in a yeast strain resistant to glucose repression. 630 24

Specific activities of succinate:coenzyme Q reductase, ubiquinone:cytochrome c reductase, cytochrome oxidase, succinate:cytochrome c reductase, succinate oxidase, and ubiquinol oxidase have been measured in rat liver mitochondria in the presence of Triton X-100. The last three activities are much more sensitive to Triton X-100 than the first ones; the data suggest that the electron transport chain components cannot react with each other in the presence of the detergent. At least in the case of succinate:cytochrome c reductase, reconstitution of the detergent-treated membranes with externally added phospholipids reverses the inhibition produced by Triton X-100. These results support the idea that the respiratory chain components diffuse at random in the plane of the inner mitochondrial membrane; the main effect of the detergent would be to impair lateral diffusion by decreasing the area of lipid bilayer. When detergent-treated mitochondrial suspensions are centrifuged in order to separate the solubilized from the particulate material, only the first three enzyme activities mentioned above are found in the supernatants. After centrifugation, a latent ubiquinol:cytochrome c oxidase activity becomes apparent, whereas the same centrifugation process produces inhibition of cytochrome c oxidase in the presence of certain Triton X-100 concentrations. These effects could be due either to a selective solubilization of regulatory or catalytic subunits or to a conformational change of the enzyme-detergent complex.
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PMID:Effect of the nonionic detergent Triton X-100 on mitochondrial succinate-oxidizing enzymes. 632 Jul 42

An NADH-cytochrome c reductase (complex I-III) was isolated from Ascaris suum muscle mitochondria. The enzyme preparation catalyzed the reduction of 1.68 mumol cytochrome c min-1 mg-1 protein at 25 degrees C with NADH but not with NADPH, and retained its sensitivity to rotenone, piericidin A and 2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide as with the submitochondrial particles. The isolated complex I-III, essentially free of succinate-cytochrome c reductase and cytochrome c oxidase, consisted of fourteen polypeptides with apparent molecular weights ranging from 76 000 to 12 000. The complex I-III contained three cytochromes, b-559.5, b-563 and c1-550.5 and Pigment-558 at concentrations of 1.28, 0.211, 1.23 and 0.321 nmol mg-1 protein, respectively. Cytochrome b-558, a major constituent cytochrome of Ascaris mitochondria and previously suggested to participate in the fumarate reductase system, was not fractionated in the complex I-III. Localization of the cytochromes in Ascaris electron transfer complexes is discussed.
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PMID:Electron transfer complexes of Ascaris suum muscle mitochondria: I. Characterization of NADH-cytochrome c reductase (complex I-III), with special reference to cytochrome localization. 651 90

Spontaneous mutants resistant to vanadate, arsenate or thiophosphate were isolated from a haploid strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. These three anions have an inhibitory effect on some mitochondrial functions and at the level of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, a glycolysis enzyme. All the selected mutants had the same phenotype: they were deficient in alcohol dehydrogenase I, the terminal enzyme of the glycolysis, and possessed a high content of cytochrome c oxidase, the terminal enzyme of the respiratory chain. Moreover, cytochrome c oxidase biosynthesis had become insensitive to the catabolite repression, while the biosynthesis of the other enzymes sensitive to this phenomenon were always inhibited by glucose. Metabolic effects of this pleiotropic mutation manifested themselves in the following ways. 1. Growth rate and final cell mass were enhanced, compared to the wild type, when cells were grown on glucose or on glycerol, but not on lactate or ethanol. 2. Growth under anaerobiosis was nil and mutants did not ferment. 3. Mitochondrial respiration of the mutant strains was identical to the wild type with succinate or 2-oxo-glutarate as substrate, and weak with ethanol. But with added NADH, respiration rate of the mutants was higher than that of the wild type and partially insensitive to antimycin, even when cells were grown in repression conditions. It is postulated that in mutants strains, NADH produced at the level of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, failing to be reoxidized via alcohol dehydrogenase, could be reoxidized with a high turnover owing to the enhancement of the amount of cytochrome c oxidase. Since NADH reoxidation is partially insensitive to antimycin, a secondary pathway going from external NADH dehydrogenase to cytochrome c oxidase is suggested.
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PMID:New mutants resistant to glucose repression affected in the regulation of the NADH reoxidation. 704 95

We investigated the changes of the inner-membrane components and the electron-transfer activities of bovine heart submitochondrial particles induced by the lipid peroxidation supported by NADPH in the presence of ADP-Fe3+. Most of the polyunsaturated fatty acids were lost as a result of the peroxidation, and phospholipids were changed to polar species. Ubiquinone was also modified to polar substances as the peroxidation proceeded. Sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis showed the disappearance of 27000-Mr and 30000-Mr proteins and the appearance of highly polymerized substances. Flavins and cytochromes were not diminished, but the respiratory activity was lost. The reactions of NADH oxidase and NADH-cytochrome c reductase were most sensitive to the peroxidation, followed by those of succinate oxidase and succinate-cytochrome c reductase. Succinate dehydrogenase and duroquinol-cytochrome c reductase were inactivated by more extensive peroxidation, but cytochrome c oxidase was only partially inactivated. NADH-ferricyanide reductase was not inactivated. The pattern of the inactivation indicated that the lipid peroxidation affected the electron transport intensively between NADH dehydrogenase and ubiquinone, and moderately at the succinate dehydrogenase step and between ubiquinone and cytochrome c.
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PMID:Alteration of inner-membrane components and damage to electron-transfer activities of bovine heart submitochondrial particles induced by NADPH-dependent lipid peroxidation. 708 19

The interaction of xanthomegnin, a quinone pigment, with the mitochondrial respiratory chain was demonstrated. Xanthomegnin was reduced by succinate, in the presence of submitochondrial particles or mitochondria, only after all oxygen had been consumed in the system, and the reduction was inhibited by antimycin A or KCN. Xanthomegnin was immediately reduced by NADH in a similar system, the reduced xanthomegnin was reoxidized by oxygen but the reduction by NADH was not inhibited by antimycin A or KCN. Xanthomegnin was also immediately reduced by NADH catalyzed by a purified particulate NADH dehydrogenase complex showing a molar ratio of 2 moles NADH for one mole of xanthomegnin. Reoxidation of the reduced pigment by oxygen occurred in this system. Oxygen consumption was accelerated when xanthomegnin was added to a reaction medium containing NADH, NADH segment and cytochrome c oxidase. Subsequent addition of cytochrome c resulted in a further marked acceleration of oxygen consumption. These results suggest that xanthomegnin interacts with the NAD-linked respiratory chain to produce a xanthomegnin shunt, but this does not occur with the succinate-linked chain.
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PMID:The interaction of a quinone pigment, xanthomegnin, with the mitochondrial respiratory chain. 726 94

The relationships between bilayer lipid, diffusional and conformational activities of oxidoreduction components, and electron transfer activity in the mitochondrial inner membrane are considered. Using a new, low pH method to fuse liposome phospholipid (asolectin) with the isolated mitochondrial inner membrane, the membrane bilayer is enriched up to 700% with exogenous phospholipid. During such enrichment, ultrastructural analysis reveals that integral proteins diffuse freely and randomly into the expanding bilayer. Kinetic analysis reveals that a diffusion limited step occurs between succinate- and NADH dehydrogenase and cytochromes bc1, and that the dehydrogenases, ubiquinone, and cytochromes bc1 are free to diffuse independently of one another in the membrane plane. Whether cytochromes bc1 and cytochrome c oxidase codiffuse in the membrane plane, or diffuse independently of one another remains unclear. The specific activities of succinate- and NADH-dehydrogenase as well as cytochrome c oxidase are affected by bilayer enrichment. This most likely occurs through the direct modulation by the newly incorporated phospholipid on conformational activity required in the oxidoreductases for electron transfer.
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PMID:Relationships between bilayer lipid, motional freedom of oxidoreductase components, and electron transfer in the mitochondrial inner membrane. 742 10


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