On the role of coupling factor B in the mitochondrial Pi-ATP exchange reaction.
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Conditions are reported under which ATP protects membrane-bound coupling factor 1 against sodium bromide inactivation. The presence of Mg2+ was found to be obligatory for this protection. ADP and GTP also protected the enzyme against salt inactivation but to a much smaller extent. Other nucleotides tested were ineffective. At low ATP concentrations ADP prevented the effect of ATP and modified the saturation curve for ATP from hyperbolic to sigmoidal. Treatment of chloroplasts with 0.4 M MgCl2 or 2 M LiCl resulted in inactivation of photophosphorylation. In contrast to NaBr-depleted particles the MgCl2 or LiCl-depleted chloroplasts can be reconstituted by purified coupling factor 1. A binding site for Mg2+ and two different sites for ATP upon the coupling factor 1 are suggested to explain the mechanism of their protection against salt inactivation.
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It was demonstrated previously that mitochondria of higher and lower eukaryotes can synthesize, in the course of oxidative phosphorylation, not only ATP but also inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi). Two PPases were isolated from bovine heart mitochondria (soluble--PPase I and membrane--PPase II). Coupling PPase II, in contrast to PPase I, contains phosphatidyl choline, but PPase I is lipidized readily in the presence of different phospholipids. Reconstitution experiments of the PPi synthesis system have shown that after lipidization PPase I is able to incorporate into submitochondrial particles (SMP) and becomes a coupling factor for oxidation and PPi synthesis. It seems that phospholipid is indispensible for incorporation into the membrane and the manifestation of the coupling activity of the enzyme. The effect of lipids on the activity of soluble and membrane-bound pyrophosphatase was studied. It is shown that PPase II phospholipid is involved in the regulation of the hydrolase activity of the isolated enzyme. However, hydrolysis of PPi by SMP and its synthesis by mitochondria are affected by cooperative rearrangements of the entire lipid component of the membrane rather than by changes in the phase state of phosphatidyl choline contained in PPase II. An opposite response of ATP and PPi synthesis to changes in viscosity makes it likely that the viscosity of the mitochondrial inner membrane may control the levelling of these two processes in mitochondria.
Electron transport particles prepared from Mycobacterium phlei were depleted of bound coupling factors by washing with water in the absence of inorganic ions. The depleted electron transport particles were void of latent ATPase activity and were capable of oxidation, but were unable to support coupled phosphorylation. Nevertheless, the depleted electron transport particles were capable of substrate-induced active transport of proline. Changes in pH in response to substrate oxidation were measured in normal and depleted electron particles with bromthymol blue. A bromthymol blue response upon substrate oxidation was not observed with depleted electron transport particles. The level of oxidative phosphorylation with succinate or NADH oxidation was not reduced in the presence of proline, and proline did not have an effect upon the proton gradients formed by the oxidation of either succinate or NADH.
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.
Coupling factor B activity was measured by the stimulation of the ATP-driven NAD+ reduction by succinate or the 32Pi-ATP exchange activity of Factor B-depleted submitochondrial particles. Half-maximal coupling activity was inhibited by 30 microM cadmium, 5 microM phenylarsine oxide, or 0.3 mM arsenite-2,3-dimercaptopropanol. The inhibition was relieved by slight excess of dithiol but not by a 10-fold molar excess of 2-mercaptoethanol. Inhibition of coupling activity by phenylarsine oxide or cadmium was not due to interference in binding of Factor B to depleted particles. Isolated Factor B binds phenylarsine oxide resulting in loss of ability to stimulate depleted submitochondrial particles. The inhibition was largely overcome by dithiol but not by monothiols. The residual coupling activity of depleted submitochondrial particles was highly resistant to cadmium or arsenical. Moreover, binding of arsenical to the depleted particles per se, did not result in inhibition of Factor B-stimulated activity. Furthermore, the addition of phenylarsine oxide to H+-ATPase resulted in loss of Pi-ATP exchange and stimulation of oligomycin-sensitive ATPase activities. Both effects were further potentiated by 2-mercaptoethanol and reversed by dithiols. These effects parallel uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria by these inhibitors and point to Factor B as the probable component sensitive to these inhibitors.
The metabolic stabilities of bound adenine nucleotides in a membrane-bound ATPase (EF1) [EC 3.6.1.3] of Escherichia coli were studied by estimating their rates of turnover in vivo. Two-thirds of the bound ATP prelabelled with 32Pi in EF1 molecules was retained after 3 h in a chase medium. The bound ADP was chased rapidly with a half time of decrease of less than 1 h, the rate similar to that of cytoplasmic free nucleotides. These results suggest that bound ATP in the EF1 is not a direct intermediate in oxidative phosphorylation.
Maximal respiration and expression of mitochondrial enzymes are found at the late-S phase of yeast cells growing synchronously in glucose medium. Adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) activity follows a similar pattern. However, the cytosolically synthesized F1-ATPase and also that released from the membrane accumulate in the cytosol during the G1 and early-S phases. After the mid-S phase, when the mitochondrially synthesized membrane factors are available, the enzyme migrates to the membrane and is integrated.