Energy-dependent Complex I-associated ubisemiquinones in submitochondrial particles

Autor: Andrei D. Vinogradov, I.A. Moroz, Dosymzhan Sh. Burbaev, Vladimir D. Sled, Tomoko Ohnishi, Vera G. Grivennikova
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: FEBS Letters. 370:83-87
ISSN: 0014-5793
Popis: Two distinct species of Complex I-associated ubisemiquinones (SQNf and SQN,) were detected by cryogenic EPR analysis of tightly coupled submitochondrial particles oxi- dizing NADH or succinate under steady-state conditions. The g = 2.00 signals from both fast-relaxing SQNf (Pro -- 170 mW at 40 K) and slow-relaxing SQNs (Pro = 0.7 mW) are sensitive to uncouplers, rotenone and thermally induced deactivation of Com- plex I. At higher temperatures the SQN~ signal is broadened and only the SQN s signal is seen (Pu2 = 7 mW at 105 K). The spin- spin interaction between SQNf and the iron-sulfur cluster N2 was detected as split peaks of the gu 2.05 signal with a coupling constant of 1.65 mT, revealing their mutual distance of 8-11 A. The data obtained are consistent with a model in which N2 and two interacting bound ubisemiquinone species are spatially ar- ranged within the hydrophobic domain of Complex I, participat- ing in the vectorial proton translocation.
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