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In addition to complexes in the respiratory chain, few dehydrogenases playing key roles in the physiological metabolism in neurons, are able to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) in mitochondria. One of them is the Krebs cycle enzyme, α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (α-KGDH), which is capable of producing superoxide and hydrogen peroxide by the E3 subunit of the enzyme regulated by changes in the NADH/NAD+ ratio. Mutations in the E3 subunit known to be related to diseases in humans were shown to have increased ROS-forming ability. α-Glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (α-GPDH) located on the outer surface of the inner membrane can also generate ROS, which is stimulated by Ca2+. ROS production by α-GPDH is unique as it does not require Ca2+ uptake and it is observed in respiring as well as damaged, bioenergetically incompetent mitochondria. The possible role of ROS generation by these dehydrogenases in brain pathology is discussed in this review. 相似文献
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The membrane potential (ΔΨm) dependence of the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in isolated guinea-pig brain mitochondria
respiring on NADH-linked substrates (glutamate plus malate) was addressed. Depolarization by FCCP was without effect on H2O2 formation in the absence of bovine serum albumin (BSA). Addition of BSA (0.025%) to the assay medium hyperpolarized mitochondria
by 6.1 ± 0.9 mV (from 169 ± 3 to 175.1 ± 2.1 mV) and increased the rate of H2O2 formation from 207 ± 4.5 to 312 ± 12 pmol/min/mg protein. Depolarization by FCCP (5–250 nM) in the presence of BSA decreased
H2O2 formation but only to the level observed in the absence of BSA. Rotenone stimulated the formation of H2O2 both in the absence and presence of BSA. It is suggested that H2O2 formation in mitochondria supported by NADH-linked substrates is sensitive to changes in ΔΨm only when mitochondria are highly
polarized and even then, 60% of ROS generation is independent of ΔΨm. This is in contrast to earlier reports on the highly
ΔΨm sensitive ROS formation related to reverse electron flow observed in well-coupled succinate-supported mitochondria.
Special issue dedicated to John P. Blass. 相似文献
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The effect of Ca2+ applied in high concentrations (50 and 300 µM) was addressed on the generation of reactive oxygen species in isolated mitochondria from guinea-pig brain. The experiments were performed in the presence of ADP, a very effective inhibitor of mitochondrial permeability transition. Moderate increase in H2O2 release from mitochondria was induced by Ca2+ applied in 50 µM, but not in 300 µM concentration as measured with Amplex red fluorescent assay starting with a delay of 100-150 sec after exposure to Ca2+. Parallel measurements of membrane potential (ΔΨm) by safranine fluorescence showed a transient depolarization by Ca2+ followed by the recovery of ΔΨm to a value, which was more negative than that observed before addition of Ca2+ indicating a relative hyperpolarization. NAD(P)H fluorescence was also increased by Ca2+ given in 50 µM concentration. In mitochondria having high ΔΨm in the presence of oligomycin or ATP, the basal rate of release of H2O2 was significantly higher than that observed in a medium containing ADP and Ca2+ no longer increased but rather decreased the rate of H2O2 release. With 300 µM Ca2+ only a loss but no tendency of a recovery of ΔΨm was detected and H2O2 release was unchanged. It is suggested that in the presence of nucleotides the effect of Ca2+ on mitochondrial ROS release is related to changes in ΔΨm; in depolarized mitochondria, in the presence of ADP, moderate increase in H2O2 release is induced by calcium, but only in ≤ 100 µM concentration, when after a transient Ca2+-induced depolarization mitochondria became more polarized. In highly polarized mitochondria, in the presence of ATP or oligomycin, where no hyperpolarization follows the Ca2+-induced depolarization, Ca2+ fails to stimulate mitochondrial ROS generation. These effects of calcium (≤ 300 µM) are unrelated to mitochondrial permeability transition. 相似文献
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DNA topoisomerases are essential enzymes that can overwind, underwind, and disentangle double-helical DNA segments to maintain the topological state of chromosomes. Nearly all bacteria utilize a unique type II topoisomerase, gyrase, which actively adds negative supercoils to chromosomes using an ATP-dependent DNA strand passage mechanism; however, the specific activities of these enzymes can vary markedly from species to species. Escherichia coli gyrase is known to favor supercoiling over decatenation (Zechiedrich, E. L., Khodursky, A. B., and Cozzarelli, N. R. (1997) Genes Dev. 11, 2580-2592), whereas the opposite has been reported for Mycobacterium tuberculosis gyrase (Aubry, A., Fisher, L. M., Jarlier, V., and Cambau, E. (2006) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 348, 158-165). Here, we set out to understand the molecular basis for these differences using structural and biochemical approaches. Contrary to expectations based on phylogenetic inferences, we find that the dedicated DNA wrapping domains (the C-terminal domains) of both gyrases are highly similar, both architecturally and in their ability to introduce writhe into DNA. However, the M. tuberculosis enzyme lacks a C-terminal control element recently uncovered in E. coli gyrase (see accompanying article (Tretter, E. M., and Berger, J. M. (2012) J. Biol. Chem. 287, 18636-18644)) and turns over ATP at a much slower rate. Together, these findings demonstrate that C-terminal domain shape is not the sole regulatory determinant of gyrase activity and instead indicate that an inability to tightly couple DNA wrapping to ATP turnover is why M. tuberculosis gyrase cannot supercoil DNA to the same extent as its γ-proteobacterial counterpart. Our observations demonstrate that gyrase has been modified in multiple ways throughout evolution to fine-tune its specific catalytic properties. 相似文献
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DAVID G. GARBUZ OLGA G. ZATSEPINA ANDREY A. PRZHIBORO IRINA YUSHENOVA IRINA V. GUZHOVA MICHAEL B. EVGEN’EV 《Molecular ecology》2008,17(21):4763-4777
A population of Stratiomys japonica, a species belonging to the family Stratiomyidae (Diptera), common name ‘soldier flies’, occurs in a hot volcanic spring, which is apparently among the most inhospitable environments for animals because of chemical and thermal conditions. Larvae of this species, which naturally often experience temperatures more than 40 °C, have constitutively high concentrations of the normally inducible heat-shock protein Hsp70, but very low level of corresponding mRNA. Larvae of three other species of the same family, Stratiomys singularior, Nemotelus bipunctatus and Oxycera pardalina, are confined to different type semi-aquatic habitats with contrasting thermal regime. However, all of them shared the same pattern of Hsp70 expression. Interestingly, heat-shock treatment of S. japonica larvae activates heat-shock factor and significantly induces Hsp70 synthesis, whereas larvae of O. pardalina, a species from constant cold environment, produce significantly less Hsp70 in response to heat shock. Adults of the four species also exhibit lower, but detectable levels of Hsp70 without heat shock. Larvae of all species studied have very high tolerance to temperature stress in comparison with other Diptera species investigated, probably representing an inherent adaptive feature of all Stratiomyidae enabling successful colonization of highly variable and extreme habitats. 相似文献
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Tretter V Kerschner B Milenkovic I Ramsden SL Ramerstorfer J Saiepour L Maric HM Moss SJ Schindelin H Harvey RJ Sieghart W Harvey K 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2011,286(43):37702-37711
The multifunctional scaffolding protein gephyrin is a key player in the formation of the postsynaptic scaffold at inhibitory synapses, clustering both inhibitory glycine receptors (GlyRs) and selected GABA(A) receptor (GABA(A)R) subtypes. We report a direct interaction between the GABA(A)R α3 subunit and gephyrin, mapping reciprocal binding sites using mutagenesis, overlay, and yeast two-hybrid assays. This analysis reveals that critical determinants of this interaction are located in the motif FNIVGTTYPI in the GABA(A)R α3 M3-M4 domain and the motif SMDKAFITVL at the N terminus of the gephyrin E domain. GABA(A)R α3 gephyrin binding-site mutants were unable to co-localize with endogenous gephyrin in transfected hippocampal neurons, despite being able to traffic to the cell membrane and form functional benzodiazepine-responsive GABA(A)Rs in recombinant systems. Interestingly, motifs responsible for interactions with GABA(A)R α2, GABA(A)R α3, and collybistin on gephyrin overlap. Curiously, two key residues (Asp-327 and Phe-330) in the GABA(A)R α2 and α3 binding sites on gephyrin also contribute to GlyR β subunit-E domain interactions. However, isothermal titration calorimetry reveals a 27-fold difference in the interaction strength between GABA(A)R α3 and GlyR β subunits with gephyrin with dissociation constants of 5.3 μm and 0.2 μm, respectively. Taken together, these observations suggest that clustering of GABA(A)R α2, α3, and GlyRs by gephyrin is mediated by distinct mechanisms at mixed glycinergic/GABAergic synapses. 相似文献
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