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Kell DB. A protet-based, protonic charge transfer model of energy coupling in oxidative and photosynthetic phosphorylation. Adv Microb Physiol 2021; 78:1-177. [PMID: 34147184 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2021.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Textbooks of biochemistry will explain that the otherwise endergonic reactions of ATP synthesis can be driven by the exergonic reactions of respiratory electron transport, and that these two half-reactions are catalyzed by protein complexes embedded in the same, closed membrane. These views are correct. The textbooks also state that, according to the chemiosmotic coupling hypothesis, a (or the) kinetically and thermodynamically competent intermediate linking the two half-reactions is the electrochemical difference of protons that is in equilibrium with that between the two bulk phases that the coupling membrane serves to separate. This gradient consists of a membrane potential term Δψ and a pH gradient term ΔpH, and is known colloquially as the protonmotive force or pmf. Artificial imposition of a pmf can drive phosphorylation, but only if the pmf exceeds some 150-170mV; to achieve in vivo rates the imposed pmf must reach 200mV. The key question then is 'does the pmf generated by electron transport exceed 200mV, or even 170mV?' The possibly surprising answer, from a great many kinds of experiment and sources of evidence, including direct measurements with microelectrodes, indicates it that it does not. Observable pH changes driven by electron transport are real, and they control various processes; however, compensating ion movements restrict the Δψ component to low values. A protet-based model, that I outline here, can account for all the necessary observations, including all of those inconsistent with chemiosmotic coupling, and provides for a variety of testable hypotheses by which it might be refined.
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- Douglas B Kell
- Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative, Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
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Castrejón V, Parra C, Moreno R, Peña A, Uribe S. Potassium collapses the deltaP in yeast mitochondria while the rate of ATP synthesis is inhibited only partially: modulation by phosphate. Arch Biochem Biophys 1997; 346:37-44. [PMID: 9328282 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1997.0273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Addition of increasing concentrations of K+ to yeast mitochondria in the presence of 0 to 400 microM phosphate and 200 microM Mg2+ led to uncoupled respiration and decreased protonmotive force (deltaP):at 0 K+ deltaP = 213 mV, negative inside, where deltapsi = 180 mV and deltapH = 33 mV, while at 20 mM K+ deltaP = 28 mV, where deltapsi = 16 mV and deltapH = 12 mV. In contrast, the synthesis of ATP resulted in smaller values for the Km and the Vmax in 400 microM Pi and increasing ADP: in 0 K+, Km = 18.6 microM and Vmax = 75.4 nmol (min x mg protein)-1, while in 20 mM K+, Km = 5.2 microM and Vmax = 46.0 nmol (min x mg protein)-1, i.e., when K+ depleted most of the deltaP, and at ADP concentrations below the Km, the rate of ATP synthesis was essentially the same as in the absence of K+. At saturating ADP, the rate of ATP synthesis in the presence of K+ was about 60% of the rate observed without K+. The synthesis of ATP by yeast mitochondria was inhibited by oligomycin or uncouplers. K+ had no effects on rat liver mitochondria. Adenylate kinase activity was much smaller in yeast mitochondria than in rat liver mitochondria and thus did not account for the synthesis of ATP observed in the presence of K+. The effects of K+ on the deltaP of yeast mitochondria were prevented by increasing concentrations of phosphate (1 to 4 mM). At 4 mM phosphate, the deltaP was always above 200 mV and the kinetics of ATP synthesis were as follows: 0 K+ Km = 10.0 microM and Vmax = 88.3 nmol (min x mg protein)-1. At 20 mM K+, Km = 7.4 microM and Vmax = 133 nmol (min x mg protein)-1.
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- V Castrejón
- Department of Biochemistry, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, México DF
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Kholodenko BN, Westerhoff HV. Control theory of group transfer pathways. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(95)00014-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- D A Harris
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, U.K
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Quantitative analysis with physicochemical substituent and molecular parameters of uncoupling activity of substituted diarylamines. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(05)80190-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Petronilli V, Persson B, Zoratti M, Rydström J, Azzone GF. Flow-force relationships during energy transfer between mitochondrial proton pumps. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1058:297-303. [PMID: 1646634 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(05)80250-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The effect of inhibitors of proton pumps, of uncouplers and of permeant ions on the relationship between input force, delta mu H+, and output flows of the ATPase, redox and transhydrogenase H(+)-pumps in submitochondrial particles was investigated. It is concluded that: (1) The decrease of output flow of the transhydrogenase proton pump, defined as the rate of reduction of NADP+ by NADH, is linearily correlated with the decrease of input force, delta mu H+, in an extended range of delta mu H+, independently of whether the H(+)-generating pump is the ATPase or a redox pump, or whether delta mu H+ is depressed by inhibitors of the H(+)-generating pump such as oligomycin or malonate, or by uncouplers. (2) The output flows of the ATPase and of the site I redox H(+)-pumps exhibit a steep dependence on delta mu H+. The flow-force relationships differ depending on whether the depression of delta mu H+ is induced by inhibitors of the H(+)-generating pump, by uncouplers or by lipophilic anions. (3) With the ATPase as H(+)-consuming pump, at equivalent delta mu H+ values, the output flow is more markedly inhibited by malonate than by uncouplers; the latter, however, are more inhibitory than lipophilic anions such as ClO4-. With redox site I as proton-consuming pump, at equivalent delta mu H+ values, the output flow is more markedly inhibited by oligomycin than by uncouplers; again, uncouplers are more inhibitory than ClO4-. (4) The results provide further support for a delocalized interaction of transhydrogenase with other H(+)-pumps.
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- V Petronilli
- CNR Unit for the Physiology of Mitochondria, University of Padova, Italy
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Lee CP, Ernster L. Energy-linked nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase 1963-1988: a commentary on 'Equilibrium Studies of the Energy-Dependent and Non-Energy-Dependent Pyridine Nucleotide Transhydrogenase Reactions'. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 1000:371-6. [PMID: 2673389 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3002(89)80032-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- C P Lee
- Department of Biochemistry, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
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Azzone GF, Luvisetto S. Molecular events in coupling and uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1988; 550:277-88. [PMID: 2469371 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb35343.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- G F Azzone
- CNR Unit Institute of General Pathology, University of Padova, Italy
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Sánchez Olavarría J, Lambers A, van Dam K. Uncoupler-inhibitor titrations of ATP-driven reverse electron transfer in isolated rat-liver mitochondria. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 936:108-13. [PMID: 2460134 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(88)90257-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Uncoupler-inhibitor titrations of ATP-driven reverse electron transfer across the first site of the respiratory chain were performed in isolated rat-liver mitochondria, and the experimental results were compared with the predictions of a simple delocalized chemiosmotic mechanism. The rates of ATP hydrolysis (Jp) and reverse electron transfer (-J0) were measured at different uncoupler (S-13) concentrations, either in the absence or in the presence of rotenone. When the rates -J0 and Jp measured at different uncoupler concentrations were expressed as percentages of the activity at zero uncoupler concentration, it was found that the efficiency of S-13 to uncouple the reverse electron transfer and to stimulate ATP hydrolysis was not significantly changed upon partial inhibition with rotenone. These results are in contrast with data from a study of uncoupler-inhibitor titrations in submitochondrial particles published previously, in which a higher effectiveness of several uncouplers to inhibit ATP-driven reverse electron transfer was observed in the presence of rotenone.
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Miyoshi H, Fujita T. Quantitative analyses of the uncoupling activity of substituted phenols with mitochondria from flight muscles of house flies. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1988; 935:312-21. [PMID: 2844258 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(88)90226-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Uncoupling activity with flight-muscle mitochondria from house flies was measured for a series of weakly acidic uncouplers (substituted phenols) and compared with the protonophoric potency across lecithin liposomal membranes. The activity was linearly related to the protonophoric potency when such factors as the stability of anionic species in the membrane phase and the difference in the pH conditions of the extramembranous aqueous phase were taken into account. Relationships of the flight-muscle activity with activities measured previously with rat-liver mitochondria and spinach chloroplasts were linear. Our findings were further evidence for the shuttle-type mechanism of the uncoupling action of weakly acidic uncouplers.
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- H Miyoshi
- Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
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Brink J, Boekema EJ, van Bruggen EF. Electron microscopy and image analysis of the complexes I and V of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY REVIEWS 1988; 1:175-99. [PMID: 2908740 DOI: 10.1016/0892-0354(88)90001-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The results of Section IV can be summarized in a simple ATP synthase model. This model implies that either the alpha or the beta subunits must be closer to the membrane. The work of Gao and Bauerlein (1987) indicates that the alpha subunits are closer to the membrane. Although the overall structure is more or less clear, important questions need to be clarified. First, the number and the arrangement of the subunits in the F0 part must be known. Second, the exact shape of F1, and particularly the shape of the large subunits needs to be elucidated. On the basis of fluorescence resonance energy transfer measurements by McCarty and Hammes (1987), a model was presented showing large oblong subunits. Such 'banana-shaped' subunits, which are also presented in the many phantasy models (e.g. Walker et al., 1982), are very unlikely in view of the electron microscopical results, although the large subunits do not need to be exactly spherical. The third and most interesting central question is on the changes in the structure that take place during the different steps in the synthesis of ATP. It can now be taken as proven that the energy transmitted to the ATP synthase is used to induce a conformational change in the latter enzyme, in such a way as to bring about the energy-requiring dissociation of already synthesized ATP (Penefsky, 1985 and reviewed in Slater, 1987). But the way in which the three parts of the ATP synthase are involved is completely unknown. It is rather puzzling that such a long distance exists between the catalytic sites, which are on the interface of the alpha and beta subunits and the F0 part where the proton movements occur, which, according to Mitchell's theory (1961), is the driving force for the synthesis of ATP. Perhaps alternative mechanisms such as the collision hypothesis formulated by Herweijer et al. (1985) are more realistic in describing the mechanism of ATP synthesis. It would bring the complexes I and V close together, not only in the artificial way treated in this paper, but in a useful way for energy conversion.
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- J Brink
- Biochemisch Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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Persson B, Berden JA, Rydström J, van Dam K. ATP-driven transhydrogenase provides an example of delocalized chemiosmotic coupling in reconstituted vesicles and in submitochondrial particles. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 894:239-51. [PMID: 2960379 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(87)90193-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The mechanism of coupling between mitochondrial ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3) and nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase (EC 1.6.1.1) was studied in reconstituted liposomes containing both purified enzymes and compared with their behavior in submitochondrial particles. In order to investigate the mode of coupling between the transhydrogenase and the ATPase by the double-inhibitor and inhibitor-uncoupler methods, suitable inhibitors of transhydrogenase and ATPase were selected. Phenylarsine oxide and A3'-O-(3-(N-(4-azido-2-nitrophenyl)amino)propionyl)-NAD+ were used as transhydrogenase inhibitors, whereas of the various ATPase inhibitors tested aurovertin was found to be the most convenient. The inhibition of the ATP-driven transhydrogenase activity was proportional to the inhibition of both the ATPase and the transhydrogenase. Inhibitor-uncoupler titrations showed an increased sensitivity of the coupled reaction towards carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone (FCCP)--an uncoupler that preferentially uncouples localized interactions, according to Herweijer et al. (Biochim. Biophys. Acta 849 (1986) 276-287)--when the primary pump was partially inhibited. However, when the secondary pump was partially inhibited the sensitivity towards FCCP remained unchanged. Similar results were obtained with submitochondrial particles. These results are in contrast to those obtained previously with the ATP-driven reverse electron flow. In addition, the amount of uncoupler required for uncoupling of the ATP-driven transhydrogenase was found to be similar to that required for the stimulation of the ATPase activity, both in reconstituted vesicles and in submitochondrial particles. Uncoupling of reversed electron flow to NAD+ required much less uncoupler. On the basis of these results, it is proposed that, in agreement with the chemiosmotic model, the interaction between ATPase and transhydrogenase in reconstituted vesicles as well as in submitochondrial particles occurs through the delta mu H+. In contrast, the energy transfer between ATPase and NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase appears to occur via a more direct interaction, according to the above-mentioned results by Herweijer et al.
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- B Persson
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, B.C.P. Jansen Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Slater EC. The mechanism of the conservation of energy of biological oxidations. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1987; 166:489-504. [PMID: 3038543 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb13542.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Caplan SR, Pietrobon D. Theoretical analysis of double-titration experiments. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 895:241-58. [PMID: 3333015 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4173(87)80004-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- S R Caplan
- Department of Membrane Research, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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