Kinetic Modeling of Energy Metabolism and Superoxide Generation in Hepatocyte Mitochondria |
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Authors: | Demin O. V. Goryanin I. I. Kholodenko B. N. Westerhoff H. V. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia;(2) Glaxo Wellcome Research and Development, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2NY, UK;(3) Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA;(4) Department of Microbial Physiology, Vrije University, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(5) E.C. Slater Institute, BioCentrum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Direct nonenzymatic oxidation of semiquinone by oxygen is one of the main sources of superoxide radicals in mitochondria. Using all the known data on hepatocyte mitochondria, we have revealed the correlation between the rate of superoxide generation by the bc1complex and the transmembrane potential (). Assuming that the main electrogenic stage of the Qcycle is the electron transfer between the cytochrome bhemes, then the rate of superoxide generation sharply increases when grows from 150 to 180 mV. However, this interrelation is ambiguous. Indeed, the increase of the generation rate with the growth of the potential can occur faster when succinate dehydrogenase is inhibited by malonate than when external ADP is exhausted. When the potential is changed by adding phosphate or potassium (K+), the rate of production remains constant, although the comparison of the rates at the same reveals the effect of phosphate or potassium. It turned out that the rate of generation is a function of rather than any of its components. Phosphate and K+have practically no influence on , since the change in is compensated by pH. The rate of superoxide generation by the bc1complex is a multiple function of the electron-transfer activity of enzymes, the processes determining the membrane potential (e.g., loading), and the oxygen concentration. The kinetic model proposed in this work may serve to understand how the superoxide production is regulated. |
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Keywords: | superoxide radical kinetic model regulation |
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