Mechanism of uncoupling by uncouples of oxidative phosphorylation |
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Authors: | D E Green H Vande Zande |
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Affiliation: | Institute for Enzyme Research University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 USA |
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Abstract: | Classical uncouplers duplicate exactly the uncoupling actions of the valinomycin-nigericin ionophoric combination in presence of K+ — a combination that mediates cyclical transport of K+ driven by electron transfer or pyrophosphorolysis of ATP in mitochondria. Evidence has been presented that uncouplers have the properties essential for mediating coupled cyclical transport of cations and that uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation can be rationalized in terms of one coupled process being displaced and replaced by another. The critical demonstrations were first that uncoupling is a cation-dependent process and that only those cations that can undergo complexation with uncouplers are effective in restoring mitochondrial uncoupler action in a cation-deficient medium. The second demonstration was that uncouplers are ionophores, not only of the nigericin type but also of the valinomycin type (electrogenic). This combination in one molecule of electrogenic as well as non-electrogenic ionophoric activity for cations endows uncouplers with the capability for duplicating the uncoupling action of the valinomycin-nigericin combination and for mediating coupled cyclical transport of cations. |
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Keywords: | mCICCP carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone SF6847 3,5-d-t-butyl-4-hydroxybenzylidene malonitrile A23187 monensin |
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