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The detergent mono-n-dodecyl octaoxyethylene ether tightly bound to mitochondrial electron-transport particles and below its critical micellar concentration inhibited the NADH oxidase activity, but not the succinate oxidase activity. The result indicates that the inhibition site is in the Complex I segment. The detergent inhibited rotenone-sensitive NADH-ubiquinone reductase activity, but not NADH-ferricyanide reductase activity, of isolated Complex I. Partial removal of phospholipids from Complex I from 18.8% (w/w) to 14.5% significantly decreased its susceptibility to the inhibitor as well as to rotenone. These results show that the binding site of the detergent responsible for the inhibition lies between the NADH dehydrogenase of flavoprotein and ubiquinone in Complex I and that the binding of the detergent to the site requires phospholipids.
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PMID:Selective inhibition of mitochondrial NADH-ubiquinone reductase (Complex I) by an alkyl polyoxyethylene ether. 309 34

Deamino-NADH/ubiquinone 1 oxidoreductase activity in membrane preparations from Escherichia coli GR19N is 20-50% of NADH/ubiquinone 1 oxidoreductase activity. In comparison, membranes from E. coli IY91, which contain amplified levels of NADH dehydrogenase, exhibit about 100-fold higher NADH/ubiquinone 1 reductase activity but about 20-fold less deamino-NADH/ubiquinone 1 reductase activity. Deamino-NADH/ubiquinone 1 reductase is more sensitive than NADH/ubiquinone 1 reductase activity to inhibition by 3-undecyl-2-hydroxyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, piericidin A, or myxothiazol. Furthermore, GR19N membranes exhibit two apparent Kms for NADH but only one for deamino-NADH. Inside-out membrane vesicles from E. coli GR19N generate a H+ electrochemical gradient (interior positive and acid) during electron transfer from deamino-NADH to ubiquinone 1 that is large and stable relative to that observed with NADH as substrate. Generation of the H+ electrochemical gradient in the presence of deamino-NADH is inhibited by 3-undecyl-2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone and is not observed in IY91 membrane vesicles or in vesicles from GR19N that are deficient in deamino-NADH/ubiquinone 1 reductase activity. The data provide a strong indication that the E. coli aerobic respiratory chain contains two species of NADH dehydrogenases: (i) an enzyme (NADH dh I) that reacts with deamino-NADH or NADH whose turnover leads to generation of a H+ electrochemical gradient at a site between the primary dehydrogenase and ubiquinone and (ii) an enzyme (NADH dh II) that reacts with NADH exclusively whose turnover does not lead to generation of a H+ electrochemical gradient between the primary dehydrogenase and ubiquinone 1.
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PMID:NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductases of the Escherichia coli aerobic respiratory chain. 312 32

A mitochondrial NADH:Q6 oxidoreductase has been isolated from cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by a simple method involving extraction of the enzyme from the mitochondrial membrane with Triton X-100, followed by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and blue Sepharose CL-6B. By this procedure a 2000-fold purification is achieved with respect to whole cells or a 150-fold purification with respect to the mitochondrion. The purified NADH dehydrogenase consists of a single subunit with molecular mass of 53 kDa as indicated by SDS/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme contains FAD, non-covalently linked, as the sole prosthetic group with Em,7.6 = -370 mV and no iron-sulphur clusters. The enzyme is specific for NADH with apparent Km = 31 microM and was found to be inhibited by flavone (I50 = 95 microM), but not by rotenone or piericidin. The purified enzyme can use ubiquinone-2, -6 or -10, menaquinone, dichloroindophenol or ferricyanide as electron acceptors, but at different rates. The greatest turnover of NADH was obtained with ubiquinone-2 as acceptor (2500 s-1). With the natural ubiquinone-6 this value was 500 s-1. The NADH:Q2 oxidoreductase activity shows a maximum at pH 6.2, the NADH:Q6 oxidoreductase activity is constant between pH 4.5-9.0. The amount of enzyme in the cell is subject to glucose repression; it increases slightly when cells, grown on glucose or lactate, enter the stationary phase. The experiments performed so far suggest that the enzyme purified in this study is the external NADH:Q6 oxidoreductase, bound to the mitochondrial inner membrane and that it is involved in the oxidation of cytosolic NADH. The relation of this enzyme with respect to various other NADH dehydrogenases from yeast and plant mitochondria is discussed.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a rotenone-insensitive NADH:Q6 oxidoreductase from mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 313 18

The yeast Candida parapsilosis possesses two routes of electron transfer from exogenous NAD(P)H to oxygen. Electrons are transferred either to the classical cytochrome pathway at the level of ubiquinone through an NAD(P)H dehydrogenase, or to an alternative pathway at the level of cytochrome c through another NAD(P)H dehydrogenase which is insensitive to antimycin A. Analyses of mitoplasts obtained by digitonin/osmotic shock treatment of mitochondria purified on a sucrose gradient indicated that the NADH and NADPH dehydrogenases serving the alternative route were located on the mitochondrial inner membrane. The dehydrogenases could be differentiated by their pH optima and their sensitivity to amytal, butanedione and mersalyl. No transhydrogenase activity occurred between the dehydrogenases, although NADH oxidation was inhibited by NADP+ and butanedione. Studies of the effect of NADP+ on NADH oxidation showed that the NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase had Michaelis-Menten kinetics and was inhibited by NADP+, whereas the alternative NADH dehydrogenase had allosteric properties (NADH is a negative effector and is displaced from its regulatory site by NAD+ or NADP+).
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PMID:The alternative respiratory pathway of the yeast Candida parapsilosis: oxidation of exogenous NAD(P)H. 326 91

The three E-beta-methoxyacrylate (MOA) inhibitors oudemansin A, strobilurin A and MOA stilbene [3-methoxy-2(2-styrylphenyl)propenic acid-methylester], which differ by more than one order of magnitude in their binding affinity to the mitochondrial ubihydroquinone:cytochrome c oxidoreductase (bc1 complex), bind to a site that is not identical to the binding site for ubihydroquinone, the substrate of the outer ubiquinone reaction site (Qo centre). Although the ubihydroquinone molecule is still bound in the presence of the MOA inhibitors, its electrons cannot be transferred to the iron-sulfur centre. A shift of the relative position of the ubihydroquinone molecule in the reaction centre due to a conformational distortion of cytochrome b induced by the binding of the MOA inhibitor seems to be the reason for the blocked electron transfer. Further analysis shows that ubihydroquinone affects the Kd values of all three MOA inhibitors tested: the values are raised by a constant factor of two, although the inhibitors bind with quite different affinity. The iron-sulfur protein is not involved in the binding of the MOA inhibitors. These results have direct implications for the proper use of MOA inhibitors in experiments designed to analyse the structure/mechanism relationship in cytochrome c reductase. In particular, point mutations recently described in MOA-inhibitor-resistant mutants can no longer be taken to affect necessarily the ubihydroquinone binding site.
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PMID:Characterisation of binding of the methoxyacrylate inhibitors to mitochondrial cytochrome c reductase. 337 45

In the present study we have used beef heart submitochondrial preparations (BH-SMP) to demonstrate that a component of mitochondrial Complex I, probably the NADH dehydrogenase flavin, is the mitochondrial site of anthracycline reduction. During forward electron transport, the anthracyclines doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and daunorubicin acted as one-electron acceptors for BH-SMP (i.e. were reduced to semiquinone radical species) only when NADH was used as substrate; succinate and ascorbate were without effect. Inhibitor experiments (rotenone, amytal, piericidin A) indicated that the anthracycline reduction site lies on the substrate side of ubiquinone. Doxorubicin and daunorubicin semiquinone radicals were readily detected by ESR spectroscopy. Doxorubicin and daunorubicin semiquinone radicals (g congruent to 2.004, signal width congruent to 4.5 G) reacted avidly with molecular oxygen, presumably to produce O2-, to complete the redox cycle. The identification of Complex I as the site of anthracycline reduction was confirmed by studies of ATP-energized reverse electron transport using succinate or ascorbate as substrates, in the presence of antimycin A or KCN respiratory blocks. Doxorubicin and daunorubicin inhibited the reduction of NAD+ to NADH during reverse electron transport. Furthermore, during reverse electron transport in the absence of added NAD+, doxorubicin and daunorubicin addition caused oxygen consumption due to reduction of molecular oxygen (to O2-) by the anthracycline semiquinone radicals. With succinate as electron source both thenoyltrifluoroacetone (an inhibitor of Complex II) and rotenone blocked oxygen consumption, but with ascorbate as electron source only rotenone was an effective inhibitor. NADH oxidation by doxorubicin during BH-SMP forward electron transport had a KM of 99 microM and a Vmax of 30 nmol X min-1 X mg-1 (at pH 7.4 and 23 degrees C); values for daunorubicin were 71 microM and 37 nmol X min-1 X mg-1. Oxygen consumption at pH 7.2 and 37 degrees C exhibited KM values of 65 microM for doxorubicin and 47 microM for daunorubicin, and Vmax values of 116 nmol X min-1 X mg-1 for doxorubicin and 114 nmol X min-1 X mg-1 for daunorubicin. In marked contrast with these results, 5-iminodaunodrubicin (a new anthracycline with diminished cardiotoxic potential) exhibited little or no tendency to undergo reduction, or to redox cycle with BH-SMP. Redox cycling of anthracyclines by mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase is shown, in the accompanying paper (Doroshow, J. H., and Davies, K. J. A. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 3068-3074), to generate O2-, H2O2, and OH which may underlie the cardiotoxicity of these antitumor agents.
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PMID:Redox cycling of anthracyclines by cardiac mitochondria. I. Anthracycline radical formation by NADH dehydrogenase. 345 45

The quenching of fluorescence of n-(9-anthroyloxy)stearic acids and other probes by different ubiquinone homologues and analogues has been exploited to assess the localization and lateral mobility of the quinones in lipid bilayers of model and mitochondrial membranes. The true bimolecular collisional quenching constants in the lipids together with the lipid/water partition coefficients were obtained from Stern-Volmer plots at different membrane concentrations. A monomeric localization of the quinone in the phospholipid bilayer is suggested for the short side-chain ubiquinone homologues and for the longer derivatives when cosonicated with the phospholipids. The diffusion coefficients of the ubiquinones, calculated from the quenching constants either in three dimensions or in two dimensions, are in the range of (1-6) X 10(-6) cm2 s-1, both in phospholipid vesicles and in mitochondrial membranes. A careful analysis of different possible locations of ubiquinones in the phospholipid bilayer, accounting for the calculated diffusion coefficients and the viscosities derived therefrom, strongly suggests that the ubiquinone 10 molecule is located within the lipid bilayer with the quinone ring preferentially adjacent to the polar head groups of the phospholipids and the hydrophobic tail largely accommodated in the bilayer midplane. The steady-state rates of either ubiquinol 1-cytochrome c reductase or NADH:ubiquinone 1 reductase are proportional to the concentration of the quinol or quinone substrate in the membrane. The second-order rate constants appear to be at least 3 orders of magnitude lower than the second-order constants for quenching of the fluorescent probes; this is taken as a clear indication that ubiquinone diffusion is not the rate-determining step in the quinone-enzyme interaction.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Determination of partition and lateral diffusion coefficients of ubiquinones by fluorescence quenching of n-(9-anthroyloxy)stearic acids in phospholipid vesicles and mitochondrial membranes. 373 Mar 66

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

The cationic fluorescent dyes, berberines, have been observed to inhibit NAD-linked respiration in rat liver mitochondria. Low concentrations inhibit electron transport in the NAD-ubiquinone span after penetration into mitochondria. More hydrophobic alkyl derivatives proved to be stronger inhibitors showing more rapid onset of inhibition. The inhibition was totally dependent on the energization of the membrane; however, the addition of a hydrophobic anion stimulated the inhibition effects in uncoupled mitochondria. Substantially higher concentrations of berberines are needed for the inhibition of the oxidation of succinate. The excess of dye interacting with surface dipoles in the energized state can inhibit the energy transduction through the complex bc1. On the basis of the difference in the rate of fluorescence response when berberines are added to coupled mitochondria and the corresponding inhibition effects, the presence minimally of two binding sites was suggested. The dye bound on the outer surface is highly fluorescent and inhibits the energy transduction if added in excess. The remaining dye interacting with NADH dehydrogenase does not fluoresce. The accumulation of alkylberberine in mitochondria results in additional effects in the region of cytochrome b the nature of which is not fully understood.
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PMID:Interaction of fluorescent berberine alkyl derivatives with respiratory chain of rat liver mitochondria. 398 24

1. Escherichia coli 156:53D2 synthesized ubiquinone only when the growth medium was supplemented with 4-hydroxybenzoate acid. 2. Little or no vitamin K(2) was formed by the mutant under the growth conditions employed, in contrast with wild-type strains. 3. In the mutant ubiquinone deficiency was correlated with low respiration and with low particulate NADH-oxidase and NADH-cytochrome b(1)-reductase activity. 4. Preincubation of ubiquinone-deficient particles with ubiquinone-30 largely restored the NADH-oxidase and NADH-cytochrome b(1)-reductase activities. 5. Various NADH-dye-linked reductases which may be associated with NADH dehydrogenase were not affected by the absence of ubiquinone. 6. The succinate-oxidase complex was less affected than the particulate NADH oxidase by ubiquinone deficiency. 7. A pathway for electrons in the NADH-oxidase complex of the auxotroph of E. coli is proposed and its relationship to the pathway in the wild-type strain is discussed.
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PMID:Ubiquinone deficiency in an auxotroph of Escherichia coli requiring 4-hydroxybenzoic acid. 429 36


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