Charge screening by cations affects the conformation of the mitochondrial inner membrane. A study of exogenous NAD(P)H oxidation in plant mitochondria
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 195 (3), 583-588
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1950583
Abstract
Cations caused a decrease in the apparent Km and an increase in the Vmax for the oxidation of exogenous NADH by both Jerusalem-artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) and Arum maculatum (cuckoo-pint) mitochondria prepared and suspended in a low-cation medium (.simeq. 1mM-K+). In Arum mitochondria the addition of cations caused a much greater stimulation of the oxidation of NAD(P)H via the cytochrome oxidase pathway than via the alternative, antimycin-insensitive, pathway. This shows that cations affected a rate-limiting step in the electron-transport chain at or beyond ubiquinone, the branch-point of electron transport in plant mitochondria. The effects were only dependent on the valency of the cation (efficiency C3+ > C2+ > C+) and not on its chemical nature, which is consistent with the theory of the diffuse layer. The results are interpreted to show that the screening of fixed negative membrane charges on lipids and protein complexes causes a conformational change in the mitochondrial inner membrane, leading to a change in a rate-limiting step of NAD(P)H oxidation. More specifically, it is proposed that screening removes electrostatic restrictions on lateral diffusion and thus accelerates diffusion-limited steps in electron transport.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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