Nitric oxide complexes of cytochrome P-450.
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Investigations have been made of the kinetic effects of the antibiotic aurovertin on the ATPase and ITPase activity of isolated rat liver mitochondrial ATPase. Unusual patterns of inhibition, decreasing slope, and increasing y-intercept values of double reciprocal plots, were observed with Mg-ATP as the substrate under various conditions. Under specified conditions, aurovertin stimulated hydrolysis of MgATP. The inhibition of MgITP hydrolysis was uncompetitive. Aurovertin eliminated the HCO3-minus stimulation of MgATP hydrolysis. The implications of these findings for the mechanism of mitochondrial ATPase are briefly discussed.
The hydrolysis of MgATP by isolated rat liver mitochondrial ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3) at pH 8.0 was stimulated by various anions. The rate of hydrolysis was increased from 18 to 170 mumol per min per mg, a 9.4-fold stimulation, by HSeO3 at 1 mM MgATP. In the absence of a stimulatory anion, reciprocal plots of initial velocity studies with MgATP as the variable substrate were curved (Hill coefficient approximately 0.5). With the addition of anion, the reciprocal plots became linear. When the substrate was MgITP or MgGTP with the isolated enzyme or MgATP with submitochondrial particles, no curvature of the reciprocal plots was observed. With purified ATPase, anions stimulated the hydrolysis of MgITP, MgGTP, MgUTP or MgCTP only slightly. With submitochondrial particles the stimulation by anions of MgATP hydrolysis was limited to approximately 2-fold. These data are interpreted to indicate the existence of two substrate sites for MgATP and an anion-binding site on the isolated enzyme.
Evidence is presented that mitochondrial ATPase has two types of sites that bind adenine nucleotides. The catalytic site, C, binds the substrates ATP, GTP, or ITP and the inhibitor guanylyl imidodiphosphate (GMP-PNP). A second type of site, R, binds ATP, ADP, adenylyl imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP), and the chromium complexes of ATP or ADP. All of these substances binding to the R site inhibit the hydrolysis of ATP in a competitive manner; their inhibition of hydrolysis of ITP and GTP is noncompetitive. GMP-PNP inhibits oxidative phosphorylation in submitochondrial particles but AMP-PNP does not. The localization on mitochondrial membranes of sites for the binding of various antibiotics that inhibit oxidative phosphorylation is discussed.
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