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Query: EC:1.9.3.1 (cytochrome oxidase)
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Usual concentrations of antimycin A, rotenone and EDTA, individually or in combination, reduced aerobic growth rate and cell yield of Candida albicans to about half its normal level and to about the levels of previously-described acetate-negative, cytochrome-complete and aa3-deficient variants which were little affected by the inhibitors. Anaerobic conditions (not affected by antimycin A) reduced growth rate and cell yield of all cultures-including that of a nonrespiring aa3, b-deficient mutant-to low, equal levels. Antimycin A but not rotenone prevented growth of the normal strain on ethanol medium. Cyanide and antimycin A blocked most of the respiration of the normal strain and cytochrome-complete variant, but did not affect that of the cytochrome aa3-deficient mutant. Rotenone and EDTA did not affect respiration of any of the cultures. SHAM blocked cyanide-and antimycin A-insensitive respiration and prolonged the lag phases of the three respiring cultures, especially in the presence of antimycin A, but alone increased oxygen-uptake rate of the cytochrome-complete cultures while curtailing that of the cytochrome aa3-deficient mutant. Resting cells, especially wild-type, grown in medium containing antimycin A exhibited lowered oxygen-uptake rate, which was increased upon the addition of cyanide or antimycin A. Antimycin A stimulated, but cyanide inhibited, respiration of cytochrome-complete cultures grown in the presence of rotenone but did not affect that of the cytochrome aa3-deficient mutant. SHAM inhibited respiration of all antimycin A- or rotenone-grown cultures. The high rate of respiration of C. albicans in the presence of inhibitors for three sites of electron transport in the conventional oxidative pathway, the inhibition of this respiration by SHAM and its loss by the absence of cytochrome b, indicate an alternate oxidative pathway in this organism which crosses the conventional one at cytochrome b.
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PMID:An alternate respiratory pathway in Candida albicans. 82 92

In skeletal muscles from rats treated with germanium for 23 weeks, there were numerous ragged-red fibers and cytochrome-c oxidase (COX)-deficient fibers. Biochemically, germanium reduced the enzyme activities in the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Rotenone-sensitive NADH-cytochrome-c reductase as well as COX activities were markedly reduced, while succinate-cytochrome-c reductase was less severely, but significantly, affected. The histopathological findings in these muscles were similar to those seen in patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, suggesting that germanium-induced myopathy may be a useful experimental model. Coenzyme Q10 administration appeared to be ineffective in preventing this experimental myopathy.
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PMID:An experimental model of mitochondrial myopathy: germanium-induced myopathy and coenzyme Q10 administration. 148 63

Incubation of chromate with isolated rat liver submitochondrial particles under anaerobic conditions in vitro results in reduction of chromium(VI) and formation of chromium(V). In the presence of NADH, submitochondrial particles (SMPs) were active in reducing chromate as shown by UV-vis spectroscopic studies, and forming a chromium(V) species which was detectable by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. In the presence of succinate, SMPs were less effective in reducing chromate and forming chromium(V) relative to their NADH-dependent activity. However, SMPs showed a higher rate of oxygen depletion with NADH as compared to succinate as substrate, suggesting that differences in the NADH-dependent versus succinate-dependent chromate-reductase activity of SMPs is probably due to differences in efficiency of electron donation by succinate and NADH. The use of specific electron transport chain inhibitors allowed the sites of chromium(VI) reduction and chromium(V) formation in SMPs to be determined. Rotenone, antimycin and cyanide all produced approximately 40% inhibition of the NADH-dependent chromate-reductase activity. Thus, complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) appears to be responsible for the inhibitor-insensitive, and complex IV (ferrocytochrome c:oxygen oxidoreductase) for the inhibitor-sensitive NADH-dependent chromium(VI) reduction and chromium(V) formation. Cyanide and antimycin produced approximately 50% inhibition of the succinate-dependent chromate-reductase activity of SMPs, while no detectable inhibition was observed with rotenone. These results confirm the chromate-reductase activity of complex IV, and suggest that complex II (succinate:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) is responsible for the inhibitor-insensitive succinate-dependent chromate-reductase activity of SMPs. Since chromium(VI) is effectively metabolized by electron transport chain complexes of the mitochondrial inner membrane in vitro, and chromium(V) is formed as an intermediate in the process, mitochondria may play a role in chromium(VI) carcinogenesis.
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PMID:Chromium(V) is produced upon reduction of chromate by mitochondrial electron transport chain complexes. 253 17

Rotenone-sensitive NADH dehydrogenase activity and Lubrol stimulation of cytochrome oxidase activity were measured to assess the opposite membrane polarity of beef heart mitoplast and inside-out particle preparations. The ATP-Pi exchange activity of mitoplasts was not affected by their incubation at pH 8.9 in the presence of 5 mM EDTA (a treatment known to extract coupling factor B (F beta) from submitochondrial particles), nor was it stimulated by the addition of F beta to intact and alkaline treated mitoplast preparations. In contrast, the exchange activity of inside-out particles was decreased 18 fold by the alkaline/EDTA treatment and was almost completely restored by the addition of F beta to F beta-depleted particles. From these results it is concluded that in beef heart mitochondria, the coupling factor F beta is bound to the matrix-side of the inner mitochondrial membrane.
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PMID:Evidence that coupling factor B is bound to the matrix side of the inner mitochondrial membrane. 256 42

The cultured skin fibroblasts from three patients with lacticacidemia were found to have low rates of 1-[14C]pyruvate oxidation in the face of normal pyruvate dehydrogenase activity. After incubation with 1 mM glucose, these three cell strains also exhibited lactate/pyruvate ratios which were three times greater than those of controls. In two of the patients, both ATP and oxygen consumption in fibroblast mitochondrial preparations was deficient with NAD-linked substrates but normal with succinate and ascorbate/N'N'N'N' tetramethyl phenylene diamine. In the third patient, ATP synthesis in mitochondrial preparations was deficient with all substrates tested. Measurement of Rotenone-sensitive NADH-cytochrome c reductase in mitochondrial preparations from skin fibroblasts showed that two of the patients had 14 and 18%, respectively, of control activity. In the third patient, cytochrome oxidase activity was 15% of that in controls. We conclude that respiratory chain defects can be demonstrated in cultured skin fibroblasts with consistency using a number of different techniques.
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PMID:Respiratory chain defects in the mitochondria of cultured skin fibroblasts from three patients with lacticacidemia. 300 44

Various doses of rotenone, an inhibitor of respiratory chain, were administered to mature female rabbits concomitantly with an ovulatory dose of hCG. The effect of rotenone on ovulation was studied by counting the ovulated stigma under a dissecting microscope. Histochemical studies on the activities of 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3 beta-HSD) and cytochrome oxidase (CYO) in follicles at various intervals after hCG-rotenone injections were also performed to investigate the role of mitochondrial oxidation in the ovulatory process. Rotenone inhibited the hCG-induced ovulation in a dose respondent manner and reduced the sudden hCG-induced increase in the histochemical activities of 3 beta-HSD and CYO of granulosa cells. It is suggested that the activation of mitochondrial oxidation in the ovulating follicle is mandatory for ovulation and the induction of steroidogenic enzymes in granulosa cells.
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PMID:[Effect of rotenone on rabbit ovulation and histochemical activities of cytochrome oxidase and 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase of the follicle]. 302 3

Rotenone-poisoned rat liver mitochondria energized by succinate addition, after a 5-min period of preincubation in presence of 10 microM Ca2+, produce H2O2 at much faster rates, undergo extensive swelling, and are not able to retain the membrane potential and accumulated Ca2+. Similar results were obtained when a suspension of rat liver mitochondria preincubated in anaerobic medium for 5 min was reoxygenated. The addition of either ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid, ruthenium red, catalase, or dithiothreitol, just before succinate or O2 addition, prevented mitochondrial swelling, indicating the involvement of Ca2+, reactive oxygen species, and oxidation of membrane protein thiols in this process of membrane permeabilization. Inhibition of mitochondrial swelling by cyclosporin A suggests that the membrane alterations observed under these experimental conditions are related to opening of the permeability transition pore. The presence of carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone, which prevents Ca2+ cycling across the membrane, did not inhibit mitochondrial swelling when Ca2+ influx into the mitochondrial matrix was driven by a high Ca2+ gradient. When rotenone plus antimycin A-poisoned mitochondria were energized by N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine, which reduces respiratory chain complex IV, mitochondrial swelling did not occur, unless succinate, which reduces coenzyme Q, was also added. It is concluded that reduced coenzyme Q is the electron source for oxygen radical production during Ca(2+)-stimulated oxidative damage of mitochondria.
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PMID:Ca(2+)-induced mitochondrial membrane permeabilization: role of coenzyme Q redox state. 763 41

Brain tissue from normal individuals with incidental Lewy bodies and cell loss in pigmented substantia nigra neurons (asymptomatic Parkinson's disease) and age-matched control subjects without nigral Lewy bodies was examined biochemically. There was no difference in dopamine levels or dopamine turnover in the caudate and putamen of individuals with incidental Lewy body disease compared to control subjects. There were no differences in levels of iron, copper, manganese, or zinc in the substantia nigra or other brain regions from the individuals with incidental Lewy body disease compared to those from control subjects. Similarly, ferritin levels in the substantia nigra and other brain areas were unaltered. There was no difference in the activity of succinate cytochrome c reductase (complexes II and III) or cytochrome oxidase (complex IV) between incidental Lewy body subjects and control subjects. Rotenone-sensitive NADH coenzyme Q1 reductase activity (complex I) was reduced to levels intermediate between those in control subjects and those in patients with overt Parkinson's disease, but this change did not reach statistical significance. The levels of reduced glutathione in substantia nigra were reduced by 35% in patients with incidental Lewy body disease compared to control subjects. Reduced glutathione levels in other brain regions were unaffected and there were no changes in oxidized glutathione levels in any brain region. Altered iron metabolism is not detectable in the early stages of nigral dopamine cell degeneration. There may be some impairment of mitochondrial complex I activity in the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Indices of oxidative stress and mitochondrial function in individuals with incidental Lewy body disease. 828 90

The amount of control exerted by respiratory chain complexes in isolated nonsynaptic mitochondria prepared from rat brain on the rate of oxygen consumption was assessed using inhibitor titrations. Rotenone, myxothiazol, and KCN were used to titrate the activities of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (EC 1.6.5.3; complex I), ubiquinol:ferrocytochrome c oxidoreductase (EC 1.10.2.2; complex III), and cytochrome c oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1; complex IV ), respectively. Complexes I, III, and IV shared some of the control of the rate of oxygen consumption in nonsynaptic mitochondria, having flux control coefficients of 0.14, 0.15, and 0.24, respectively. Threshold effects in the control of oxidative phosphorylation were demonstrated for complexes I, III, and IV. It was found that complex I activity could be decreased by approximately 72% before major changes in mitochondrial respiration and ATP synthesis took place. Similarly, complex III and IV activities could be decreased by approximately 70 and 60%, respectively, before major changes in mitochondrial respiration and ATP synthesis occurred. These results indicate that previously observed decreases in respiratory chain complex activities in some neurological disorders need to be reassessed as these decreases might not affect the overall capability of nonsynaptic mitochondria to maintain energy homeostasis unless a certain threshold of decreased complex activity has been reached. Possible implications for synaptic mitochondria and neurodegenerative disorders are also discussed.
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PMID:Threshold effects and control of oxidative phosphorylation in nonsynaptic rat brain mitochondria. 862 18

Metabolism of glycine in isolated mitochondria and protoplasts was investigated in photosynthetic, etiolated (barley and pea leaves) and fat-storing (maize scutellum) tissues using methods of [1-(14)C]glycine incorporation and counting of 14CO2 evolved, oxymetric measurement of glycine oxidation and rapid fractionation of protoplasts incubated in photorespiratory conditions with consequent determination of ATP/ADP ratios in different cell compartments. The involvement of different paths of electron transport in mitochondria during operation of glycine decarboxylase complex (GDC) was tested in different conditions, using aminoacetonitrile (AAN), the inhibitor of glycine oxidation in mitochondria, rotenone, the inhibitor of Complex I of mitochondrial electron transport, and inhibitors of cytochrome oxidase and alternative oxidase. It was shown that glycine has a preference to other substrates oxidized in mitochondria only in photosynthetic tissue where succinate and malate even stimulated its oxidation. Rotenone had no or small effect on glycine oxidation, whereas the role of cyanide-resistant path increased in the presence of ATP. Glycine oxidation increased ATP/ADP ratio in cytosol of barley protoplasts incubated in the presence of CO2, but not in the CO2-free medium indicating that in conditions of high photorespiratory flux oxidation of NADH formed in the GDC reaction passes via the non-coupled paths. Activity of GDC in fat-storing tissue correlated with the activity of glyoxylate-cycle enzymes, glycine oxidation did not reveal preference to other substrates and the involvement of paths non-connected with proton translocation was not pronounced. It is suggested that the preference of glycine to other substrates oxidized in mitochondria is achieved in photosynthetic tissue by switching to rotenone-insensitive intramitochrondrial NADH oxidation and by increasing of alternative oxidase involvement in the presence of glycine.
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PMID:Involvement of cyanide-resistant and rotenone-insensitive pathways of mitochondrial electron transport during oxidation of glycine in higher plants. 925 32


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