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Shiva S, Sack MN, Greer JJ, Duranski M, Ringwood LA, Burwell L, Wang X, MacArthur PH, Shoja A, Raghavachari N, Calvert JW, Brookes PS, Lefer DJ, Gladwin MT. Nitrite augments tolerance to ischemia/reperfusion injury via the modulation of mitochondrial electron transfer. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 204:2089-102. [PMID: 17682069 PMCID: PMC2118713 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20070198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 426] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Nitrite (NO(2)(-)) is an intrinsic signaling molecule that is reduced to NO during ischemia and limits apoptosis and cytotoxicity at reperfusion in the mammalian heart, liver, and brain. Although the mechanism of nitrite-mediated cytoprotection is unknown, NO is a mediator of the ischemic preconditioning cell-survival program. Analogous to the temporally distinct acute and delayed ischemic preconditioning cytoprotective phenotypes, we report that both acute and delayed (24 h before ischemia) exposure to physiological concentrations of nitrite, given both systemically or orally, potently limits cardiac and hepatic reperfusion injury. This cytoprotection is associated with increases in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Remarkably, isolated mitochondria subjected to 30 min of anoxia followed by reoxygenation were directly protected by nitrite administered both in vitro during anoxia or in vivo 24 h before mitochondrial isolation. Mechanistically, nitrite dose-dependently modifies and inhibits complex I by posttranslational S-nitrosation; this dampens electron transfer and effectively reduces reperfusion reactive oxygen species generation and ameliorates oxidative inactivation of complexes II-IV and aconitase, thus preventing mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening and cytochrome c release. These data suggest that nitrite dynamically modulates mitochondrial resilience to reperfusion injury and may represent an effector of the cell-survival program of ischemic preconditioning and the Mediterranean diet.
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- Sruti Shiva
- Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart Lung Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Marella M, Seo BB, Matsuno-Yagi A, Yagi T. Mechanism of cell death caused by complex I defects in a rat dopaminergic cell line. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:24146-56. [PMID: 17581813 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m701819200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Defects in the proton-translocating NADH-quinone oxidoreductase (complex I) of mammalian mitochondria are linked to neurodegenerative disorders. The mechanism leading to cell death elicited by complex I deficiency remains elusive. We have shown that expression of a rotenone-insensitive yeast NADH-quinone oxidoreductase (Ndi1) can rescue mammalian cells from complex I dysfunction. By using the Ndi1 enzyme, we have investigated the key events in the process of cell death using a rat dopaminergic cell line, PC12. We found that complex I inhibition provokes the following events: 1) activation of specific kinase pathways; 2) release of mitochondrial proapoptotic factors, apoptosis inducing factor, and endonuclease G. AS601245, a kinase inhibitor, exhibited significant protection against these apoptotic events. The traditional caspase pathway does not seems to be involved because caspase 3 activation was not observed. Our data suggest that overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) caused by complex I inhibition is responsible for triggering the kinase activation, for the release of the proapoptotic factors, and then for cell death. Nearly perfect prevention of apoptotic cell death by Ndi1 agrees with our earlier observation that the presence of Ndi1 diminishes rotenone-induced ROS generation from complex I. In fact, this study demonstrated that Ndi1 keeps the redox potential high even in the presence of rotenone. Under these conditions, ROS formation by complex I is known to be minimal. Possible use of our cellular model is discussed with regard to development of therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases caused by complex I defects.
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- Mathieu Marella
- Division of Biochemistry, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Bell EL, Klimova TA, Eisenbart J, Moraes CT, Murphy MP, Budinger GRS, Chandel NS. The Qo site of the mitochondrial complex III is required for the transduction of hypoxic signaling via reactive oxygen species production. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 177:1029-36. [PMID: 17562787 PMCID: PMC2064363 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200609074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 418] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Mammalian cells increase transcription of genes for adaptation to hypoxia through the stabilization of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) protein. How cells transduce hypoxic signals to stabilize the HIF-1α protein remains unresolved. We demonstrate that cells deficient in the complex III subunit cytochrome b, which are respiratory incompetent, increase ROS levels and stabilize the HIF-1α protein during hypoxia. RNA interference of the complex III subunit Rieske iron sulfur protein in the cytochrome b–null cells and treatment of wild-type cells with stigmatellin abolished reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation at the Qo site of complex III. These interventions maintained hydroxylation of HIF-1α protein and prevented stabilization of HIF-1α protein during hypoxia. Antioxidants maintained hydroxylation of HIF-1α protein and prevented stabilization of HIF-1α protein during hypoxia. Exogenous hydrogen peroxide under normoxia prevented hydroxylation of HIF-1α protein and stabilized HIF-1α protein. These results provide genetic and pharmacologic evidence that the Qo site of complex III is required for the transduction of hypoxic signal by releasing ROS to stabilize the HIF-1α protein.
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- Eric L Bell
- Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Schönfeld P, Wojtczak L. Fatty acids decrease mitochondrial generation of reactive oxygen species at the reverse electron transport but increase it at the forward transport. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2007; 1767:1032-40. [PMID: 17588527 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2007.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2007] [Revised: 04/11/2007] [Accepted: 04/22/2007] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Long-chain nonesterified ("free") fatty acids (FFA) can affect the mitochondrial generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in two ways: (i) by depolarisation of the inner membrane due to the uncoupling effect and (ii) by partly blocking the respiratory chain. In the present work this dual effect was investigated in rat heart and liver mitochondria under conditions of forward and reverse electron transport. Under conditions of the forward electron transport, i.e. with pyruvate plus malate and with succinate (plus rotenone) as respiratory substrates, polyunsaturated fatty acid, arachidonic, and branched-chain saturated fatty acid, phytanic, increased ROS production in parallel with a partial inhibition of the electron transport in the respiratory chain, most likely at the level of complexes I and III. A linear correlation between stimulation of ROS production and inhibition of complex III was found for rat heart mitochondria. This effect on ROS production was further increased in glutathione-depleted mitochondria. Under conditions of the reverse electron transport, i.e. with succinate (without rotenone), unsaturated fatty acids, arachidonic and oleic, straight-chain saturated palmitic acid and branched-chain saturated phytanic acid strongly inhibited ROS production. This inhibition was partly abolished by the blocker of ATP/ADP transfer, carboxyatractyloside, thus indicating that this effect was related to uncoupling (protonophoric) action of fatty acids. It is concluded that in isolated rat heart and liver mitochondria functioning in the forward electron transport mode, unsaturated fatty acids and phytanic acid increase ROS generation by partly inhibiting the electron transport and, most likely, by changing membrane fluidity. Only under conditions of reverse electron transport, fatty acids decrease ROS generation due to their uncoupling action.
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- Peter Schönfeld
- Institut für Biochemie, Medizinische Fakultät, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany.
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Bonawitz ND, Chatenay-Lapointe M, Pan Y, Shadel GS. Reduced TOR signaling extends chronological life span via increased respiration and upregulation of mitochondrial gene expression. Cell Metab 2007; 5:265-77. [PMID: 17403371 PMCID: PMC3460550 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2007.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 329] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2006] [Revised: 01/05/2007] [Accepted: 02/27/2007] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The relationships between mitochondrial respiration, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and life span are complex and remain controversial. Inhibition of the target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling pathway extends life span in several model organisms. We show here that deletion of the TOR1 gene extends chronological life span in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, primarily by increasing mitochondrial respiration via enhanced translation of mtDNA-encoded oxidative phosphorylation complex subunits. Unlike previously reported pathways regulating chronological life span, we demonstrate that deletion of TOR1 delays aging independently of the antioxidant gene SOD2. Furthermore, wild-type and tor1 null strains differ in life span only when respiration competent and grown in normoxia in the presence of glucose. We propose that inhibition of TOR signaling causes derepression of respiration during growth in glucose and that the subsequent increase in mitochondrial oxygen consumption limits intracellular oxygen and ROS-mediated damage during glycolytic growth, leading to lower cellular ROS and extension of chronological life span.
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- Nicholas D. Bonawitz
- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
- Graduate Program in Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Wiley SE, Murphy AN, Ross SA, van der Geer P, Dixon JE. MitoNEET is an iron-containing outer mitochondrial membrane protein that regulates oxidative capacity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:5318-23. [PMID: 17376863 PMCID: PMC1838440 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0701078104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 226] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Members of the thiazolidinedione (TZD) class of insulin-sensitizing drugs are extensively used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Pioglitazone, a member of the TZD family, has been shown to bind specifically to a protein named mitoNEET [Colca JR, McDonald WG, Waldon DJ, Leone JW, Lull JM, Bannow CA, Lund ET, Mathews WR (2004) Am J Physiol 286:E252-E260]. Bioinformatic analysis reveals that mitoNEET is a member of a small family of proteins containing a domain annotated as a CDGSH-type zinc finger. Although annotated as a zinc finger protein, mitoNEET contains no zinc, but instead contains 1.6 mol of Fe per mole of protein. The conserved sequence C-X-C-X(2)-(S/T)-X(3)-P-X-C-D-G-(S/A/T)-H is a defining feature of this unique family of proteins and is likely involved in iron binding. Localization studies demonstrate that mitoNEET is an integral protein present in the outer mitochondrial membrane. An amino-terminal anchor sequence tethers the protein to the outer membrane with the CDGSH domain oriented toward the cytoplasm. Cardiac mitochondria isolated from mitoNEET-null mice demonstrate a reduced oxidative capacity, suggesting that mito- NEET is an important iron-containing protein involved in the control of maximal mitochondrial respiratory rates.
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky School of Medicine–Kentucky Pediatrics Research Institute, Lexington, KY 40536; and
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182
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- Departments of *Pharmacology and
- Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, and
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
- **To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Department of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, Leichtag Research Building, Room 284, La Jolla, CA 92093-0721. E-mail:
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Tretter L, Takacs K, Hegedus V, Adam-Vizi V. Characteristics of alpha-glycerophosphate-evoked H2O2 generation in brain mitochondria. J Neurochem 2007; 100:650-63. [PMID: 17263793 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.04223.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Characteristics of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in isolated guinea-pig brain mitochondria respiring on alpha-glycerophosphate (alpha-GP) were investigated and compared with those supported by succinate. Mitochondria established a membrane potential (DeltaPsi(m)) and released H(2)O(2) in parallel with an increase in NAD(P)H fluorescence in the presence of alpha-GP (5-40 mm). H(2)O(2) formation and the increase in NAD(P)H level were inhibited by rotenone, ADP or FCCP, respectively, being consistent with a reverse electron transfer (RET). The residual H(2)O(2) formation in the presence of FCCP was stimulated by myxothiazol in mitochondria supported by alpha-GP, but not by succinate. ROS under these conditions are most likely to be derived from alpha-GP-dehydrogenase. In addition, huge ROS formation could be provoked by antimycin in alpha-GP-supported mitochondria, which was prevented by myxothiazol, pointing to the generation of ROS at the quinol-oxidizing center (Q(o)) site of complex III. FCCP further stimulated the production of ROS to the highest rate that we observed in this study. We suggest that the metabolism of alpha-GP leads to ROS generation primarily by complex I in RET, and in addition a significant ROS formation could be ascribed to alpha-GP-dehydrogenase in mammalian brain mitochondria. ROS generation by alpha-GP at complex III is evident only when this complex is inhibited by antimycin.
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- Laszlo Tretter
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Semmelweis University, Neurobiochemical Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Szentagothai Janos Knowledge Center, Budapest, Hungary
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Houthoofd K, Vanfleteren JR. Public and private mechanisms of life extension in Caenorhabditis elegans. Mol Genet Genomics 2007; 277:601-17. [PMID: 17364197 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-007-0225-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2006] [Accepted: 02/20/2007] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Model organisms have been widely used to study the ageing phenomenon in order to learn about human ageing. Although the phylogenetic diversity between vertebrates and some of the most commonly used model systems could hardly be greater, several mechanisms of life extension are public (common characteristic in divergent species) and likely share a common ancestry. Dietary restriction, reduced IGF-signaling and, seemingly, reduced ROS-induced damage are the best known mechanisms for extending longevity in a variety of organisms. In this review, we summarize the knowledge of ageing in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and compare the mechanisms of life extension with knowledge from other model organisms.
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- Koen Houthoofd
- Department of Biology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Barja G. Aging in vertebrates, and the effect of caloric restriction: a mitochondrial free radical production-DNA damage mechanism? Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2007; 79:235-51. [PMID: 15191224 DOI: 10.1017/s1464793103006213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Oxygen is toxic to aerobic animals because it is univalently reduced inside cells to oxygen free radicals. Studies dealing with the relationship between oxidative stress and aging in different vertebrate species and in caloric-restricted rodents are discussed in this review. Healthy tissues mainly produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) at mitochondria. These ROS can damage cellular lipids, proteins and, most importantly, DNA. Although antioxidants help to control this oxidative stress in cells in general, they do not decrease the rate of aging, because their concentrations are lower in long- than in short-lived animals and because increasing antioxidant levels does not increase vertebrate maximum longevity. However, long-lived homeothermic vertebrates consistently have lower rates of mitochondrial ROS production and lower levels of steady-state oxidative damage in their mitochondrial DNA than short-lived ones. Caloric-restricted rodents also show lower levels of these two key parameters than controls fed ad libitum. The decrease in mitochondrial ROS generation of the restricted animals has been recently localized at complex I and the mechanism involved is related to the degree of electronic reduction of the complex I ROS generator. Strikingly, the same site and mechanism have been found when comparing a long- with a short-lived animal species. It is suggested that a low rate of mitochondrial ROS generation extends lifespan both in long-lived and in caloric-restricted animals by determining the rate of oxidative attack and accumulation of somatic mutations in mitochondrial DNA.
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- Gustavo Barja
- Department of Animal Biology-II (Animal Physiology), Faculty of Biology, Complutense University, Madrid 28040, Spain
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Harvey AJ, Navarrete Santos A, Kirstein M, Kind KL, Fischer B, Thompson JG. Differential expression of oxygen-regulated genes in bovine blastocysts. Mol Reprod Dev 2007; 74:290-9. [PMID: 16998843 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Low oxygen conditions (2%) during post-compaction culture of bovine blastocysts improve embryo quality, which is associated with a small yet significant increase in the expression of glucose transporter 1 (GLUT-1), suggesting a role of oxygen in embryo development mediated through oxygen-sensitive gene expression. However, bovine embryos to at least the blastocyst stage lack a key regulator of oxygen-sensitive gene expression, hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha (HIF1alpha). A second, less well-characterized protein (HIF2alpha) is, however, detectable from the 8-cell stage of development. Here we use differential display to determine additional gene targets in bovine embryos in response to low oxygen conditions. While development to the blastocyst stage was unaffected by the oxygen concentration used during post-compaction culture, differential display identified oxygen-regulation of myotrophin and anaphase promoting complex 1 expression, with significantly lower levels observed following culture under 20% oxygen than 2% oxygen. These results further support the hypothesis that the level of gene expression of specific transcripts by bovine embryos alters in response to changes in the oxygen environment post-compaction. Specifically, we have identified two oxygen-sensitive genes that are potentially regulated by HIF2 in the bovine blastocyst.
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- A J Harvey
- Research Centre for Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia.
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Indo HP, Davidson M, Yen HC, Suenaga S, Tomita K, Nishii T, Higuchi M, Koga Y, Ozawa T, Majima HJ. Evidence of ROS generation by mitochondria in cells with impaired electron transport chain and mitochondrial DNA damage. Mitochondrion 2007; 7:106-18. [PMID: 17307400 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2006.11.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 365] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2006] [Accepted: 11/10/2006] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Mitochondrial damage is a well known cause of mitochondria-related diseases. A major mechanism underlying the development of mitochondria-related diseases is thought to be an increase in intracellular oxidative stress produced by impairment of the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC). However, clear evidence of intracellular free radical generation has not been clearly provided for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-damaged cells. In this study, using the novel fluorescence dye, 2-[6-(4'-hydroxy)phenoxy-3H-xanthen-3-on-9-yl]benzoic acid (HPF), which was designed to detect hydroxyl radicals (*OH), intracellular free radical formation was examined in 143B cells (parental cells), 143B-rho(0) cells (mtDNA-lacking cells), 87 wt (cybrid), and cybrids of 4977-bp mtDNA deletion (common deletion) cells containing the deletion with 0%, 5%, 50% and >99% frequency (HeLacot, BH5, BH50 and BH3.12, respectively), using a laser confocal microscope detection method. ETC inhibitors (rotenone, 3-nitropropionic acid, thenoyltrifluoroacetone, antimycin A and sodium cyanide) were also tested to determine whether inhibitor treatment increased intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. A significant increase in ROS for 143B-rho(0) cells was observed compared with 143B cells. However, for the 87 wt cybrid, no increase was observed. An increase was also observed in the mtDNA-deleted cells BH50 and BH3.12. The ETC inhibitors increased intracellular ROS in both 143B and 143B-rho(0) cells. Furthermore, in every fluorescence image, the fluorescence dye appeared localized around the nuclei. To clarify the localization, we double-stained cells with the dye and MitoTracker Red. The resulting fluorescence was consistently located in mitochondria. Furthermore, manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) cDNA-transfected cells had decreased ROS. These results suggest that more ROS are generated from mitochondria in ETC-inhibited and mtDNA-damaged cells, which have impaired ETC.
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- Hiroko P Indo
- Department of Oncology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan
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Zhang DX, Gutterman DD. Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species-mediated signaling in endothelial cells. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2007; 292:H2023-31. [PMID: 17237240 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01283.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Once thought of as toxic by-products of cellular metabolism, reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated in a large variety of cell-signaling processes. Several enzymatic systems contribute to ROS production in vascular endothelial cells, including NA(D)PH oxidase, xanthine oxidase, uncoupled endothelial nitric oxide synthase, and the mitochondrial electron transport chain. The respiratory chain is the major source of ROS in most mammalian cells, but the role of mitochondria-derived ROS in vascular cell signaling has received little attention. A new paradigm has evolved in recent years postulating that, in addition to producing ATP, mitochondria also play a key role in cell signaling and regulate a variety of cellular functions. This review focuses on the emerging role of mitochondrial ROS as signaling molecules in vascular endothelial cells. Specifically, we discuss some recent findings that indicate that mitochondrial ROS regulate vascular endothelial function, focusing on major sites of ROS production in endothelial mitochondria, factors modulating mitochondrial ROS production, the physiological and clinical implications of endothelial mitochondrial ROS, and methodological considerations in the study of mitochondrial contribution to vascular ROS generation.
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- David X Zhang
- Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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Sherer TB, Richardson JR, Testa CM, Seo BB, Panov AV, Yagi T, Matsuno-Yagi A, Miller GW, Greenamyre JT. Mechanism of toxicity of pesticides acting at complex I: relevance to environmental etiologies of Parkinson's disease. J Neurochem 2007; 100:1469-79. [PMID: 17241123 PMCID: PMC8669833 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.04333.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) has been linked to mitochondrial dysfunction and pesticide exposure. The pesticide rotenone (ROT) inhibits complex I and reproduces features of PD in animal models, suggesting that environmental agents that inhibit complex I may contribute to PD. We have previously demonstrated that ROT toxicity is dependent upon complex I inhibition and that oxidative stress is the primary mechanism of toxicity. In this study, we examined the in vitro toxicity and mechanism of action of several putative complex I inhibitors that are commonly used as pesticides. The rank order of toxicity of pesticides to neuroblastoma cells was pyridaben > rotenone > fenpyroximate > fenazaquin > tebunfenpyrad. A similar order of potency was observed for reduction of ATP levels and competition for (3)H-dihydrorotenone (DHR) binding to complex I, with the exception of pyridaben (PYR). Neuroblastoma cells stably expressing the ROT-insensitive NADH dehydrogenase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (NDI1) were resistant to these pesticides, demonstrating the requirement of complex I inhibition for toxicity. We further found that PYR was a more potent inhibitor of mitochondrial respiration and caused more oxidative damage than ROT. The oxidative damage could be attenuated by NDI1 or by the antioxidants alpha-tocopherol and coenzyme Q(10). PYR was also highly toxic to midbrain organotypic slices. These data demonstrate that, in addition to ROT, several commercially used pesticides directly inhibit complex I, cause oxidative damage, and suggest that further study is warranted into environmental agents that inhibit complex I for their potential role in PD.
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- Todd B Sherer
- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 15213, USA
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O'Rourke B, Cortassa S, Akar F, Aon M. Mitochondrial ion channels in cardiac function and dysfunction. NOVARTIS FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM 2007; 287:140-51; discussion 152-6. [PMID: 18074636 PMCID: PMC2692520 DOI: 10.1002/9780470725207.ch10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The study of mitochondrial physiology continues to provide new and surprising insights into how this organelle participates in the integration of cellular activities, far beyond the traditional view of the mitochondrion in energy transduction. Emerging evidence indicates that mitochondria are a centre of organization of numerous signalling pathways and are a cellular target that undergoes vast modification during both the acute and chronic phases of disease development and ageing. In this context, it is also important to understand the spatial and temporal organization of mitochondrial function and how this might influence the cell's response to stress. Here, we present evidence supporting the hypothesis that mitochondria from heart cells act as a network of coupled oscillators, capable of producing frequency- and/or amplitude-encoded reactive oxygen species (ROS) signals under physiological conditions. This intrinsic property of the mitochondria can lead to a mitochondrial 'critical' state, i.e. an emergent macroscopic response manifested as complete collapse or synchronized oscillation in the mitochondrial network under stress. The large amplitude depolarizations of deltapsi(m) and bursts of ROS have widespread effects on all subsystems of the cell including energy-sensitive ion channels in the plasma membrane, producing an effect that scales to cause organ level electrical and contractile dysfunction. Mitochondrial ion channels appear to play a key role in the mechanism of this non-linear network phenomenon and hence are an important target for potential therapeutic intervention.
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Bonnet S, Archer SL, Allalunis-Turner J, Haromy A, Beaulieu C, Thompson R, Lee CT, Lopaschuk GD, Puttagunta L, Bonnet S, Harry G, Hashimoto K, Porter CJ, Andrade MA, Thebaud B, Michelakis ED. A mitochondria-K+ channel axis is suppressed in cancer and its normalization promotes apoptosis and inhibits cancer growth. Cancer Cell 2007; 11:37-51. [PMID: 17222789 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1145] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2005] [Revised: 07/12/2006] [Accepted: 10/18/2006] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The unique metabolic profile of cancer (aerobic glycolysis) might confer apoptosis resistance and be therapeutically targeted. Compared to normal cells, several human cancers have high mitochondrial membrane potential (DeltaPsim) and low expression of the K+ channel Kv1.5, both contributing to apoptosis resistance. Dichloroacetate (DCA) inhibits mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK), shifts metabolism from glycolysis to glucose oxidation, decreases DeltaPsim, increases mitochondrial H2O2, and activates Kv channels in all cancer, but not normal, cells; DCA upregulates Kv1.5 by an NFAT1-dependent mechanism. DCA induces apoptosis, decreases proliferation, and inhibits tumor growth, without apparent toxicity. Molecular inhibition of PDK2 by siRNA mimics DCA. The mitochondria-NFAT-Kv axis and PDK are important therapeutic targets in cancer; the orally available DCA is a promising selective anticancer agent.
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- Sébastien Bonnet
- Pulmonary Hypertension Program and Vascular Biology Group, Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2B7, Canada
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Parihar MS, Brewer GJ. Simultaneous age-related depolarization of mitochondrial membrane potential and increased mitochondrial reactive oxygen species production correlate with age-related glutamate excitotoxicity in rat hippocampal neurons. J Neurosci Res 2007; 85:1018-32. [PMID: 17335078 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Mitochondria are implicated in glutamate excitotoxicity by causing bioenergetic collapse, loss of Ca(2+) homeostasis, and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), all of which become increasingly important clinically with age. Little is known about how aging affects the relative importance of mitochondrial membrane potential (DeltaPsi(m)) and ROS production. To determine aging affects on DeltaPsi(m) and ROS production in individual somal and axonal/dendritic mitochondria, we compared ROS production while simultaneously monitoring DeltaPsi(m) before and after glutamate treatment of live neurons from embryonic (day 18), middle-aged (9-12 months), and old (24 months) rats. At rest, old neuronal mitochondria 1) showed a higher rate of ROS production that was particularly strong in axonal/dendritic mitochondria relative to that in middle-age neurons, 2) were more depolarized in comparison with neurons of other ages, and 3) showed no differences in ROS or DeltaPsi(m) as a function of distance from the nucleus. All DeltaPsi(m) grouped into three classes of high (less than -120 mV), medium (-85 to -120 mV), and low (greater than -85 mV) polarization that shifted toward the lower classes with age at rest. Glutamate exposure dramatically depolarized the DeltaPsi(m) in parallel with greatly increased ROS production, with a surprising absence of an effect of age or distance from the nucleus on these mitochondrial parameters. These data suggest that old neurons are more susceptible to glutamate excitotoxicity because of an insidious depolarization of DeltaPsi(m) and rate of ROS generation at rest that lead to catastrophic failure of phosphorylative and reductive energy supplies under stress.
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- Mordhwaj S Parihar
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois 62794, USA
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Minners J, Lacerda L, Yellon DM, Opie LH, McLeod CJ, Sack MN. Diazoxide-induced respiratory inhibition - a putative mitochondrial K(ATP) channel independent mechanism of pharmacological preconditioning. Mol Cell Biochem 2006; 294:11-8. [PMID: 17136444 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-005-9066-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2005] [Accepted: 10/26/2005] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The ischemic preconditioning biological phenomenon has been explored to identify putative pharmacologic agents to mimic this cytoprotective program against cellular ischemic injury. Diazoxide administration confers this cytoprotection, however, whether this is via direct activation of the putative mitochondrial K(ATP) (mK(ATP)) channel which was originally proposed has been questioned. Here, we present data supporting an alternate hypothesis evoking mitochondrial respiratory inhibition rather than mK(ATP) channel activation, as a mediating event in the diazoxide-activated cytoprotective program. Mitochondrial respiration and reactive oxygen species (ROS) production was measured in digitonin-permeabilized C2C12 myotubes, allowing for the modulation of mK(ATP) conductance by changing the potassium concentration of the medium (0-130 mM). Diazoxide dose-dependently attenuated succinate-supported respiration, an effect that was independent of mK(ATP) channel conductance. Similarly, 5-hydroxydecanoate (5-HD), a putative mK(ATP) channel blocker, released diazoxide-induced respiratory inhibition independently of potassium concentration. Since diazoxide-induced cytoprotection and respiratory inhibition are both integrally linked to ROS generation we repeated above experiments following ROS generation using DCF fluorescence. Cytoprotective doses of diazoxide increased ROS generation independently of potassium concentration and 5-HD inhibited ROS production under the same conditions. Collectively these data support the hypothesis that diazoxide-mediated cytoprotection is independent of the conductance of the mK(ATP) channel and rather implicate mitochondrial respiratory inhibition-triggered ROS signaling.
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- Jan Minners
- Hatter Institute for Cardiology Research, MRC Inter-University Cape Heart Group, University of Cape Town Medical School, Cape Town, South Africa
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Adam-Vizi V, Chinopoulos C. Bioenergetics and the formation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species. Trends Pharmacol Sci 2006; 27:639-45. [PMID: 17056127 DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2006.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 434] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2006] [Revised: 09/04/2006] [Accepted: 10/10/2006] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The contribution of mitochondria to the manifestation of disease is ascribed largely to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are obligatory by-products of aerobiosis. Studies using isolated mitochondria have revealed multiple potential sites and circumstances of ROS production but the relevance of these to in situ conditions is limited. In this article, we focus on bioenergetic factors that promote ROS generation at physiologically relevant sites in mitochondria. Emphasis is given to ROS generation by complex I--the first component of the respiratory chain--and to how the NADH:NAD+ ratio regulates ROS formation. Complex I is a physiologically and pathologically relevant ROS-forming site that is important not only in normal mitochondrial energy production but also in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease, which is the second most common neurodegenerative disease.
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- Vera Adam-Vizi
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Semmelweis University, Neurobiochemical Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szentagothai Knowledge Center, Budapest H-1088, Hungary.
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Glover CJ, Rabow AA, Isgor YG, Shoemaker RH, Covell DG. Data mining of NCI's anticancer screening database reveals mitochondrial complex I inhibitors cytotoxic to leukemia cell lines. Biochem Pharmacol 2006; 73:331-40. [PMID: 17109823 PMCID: PMC1808352 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2006.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2006] [Revised: 10/05/2006] [Accepted: 10/09/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Mitochondria are principal mediators of apoptosis and thus can be considered molecular targets for new chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of cancer. Inhibitors of mitochondrial complex I of the electron transport chain have been shown to induce apoptosis and exhibit antitumor activity. In an effort to find novel complex I inhibitors which exhibited anticancer activity in the NCI's tumor cell line screen, we examined organized tumor cytotoxicity screening data available as SOM (self-organized maps) (http://www.spheroid.ncifcrf.gov) at the developmental therapeutics program (DTP) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Our analysis focused on an SOM cluster comprised of compounds which included a number of known mitochondrial complex I (NADH:CoQ oxidoreductase) inhibitors. From these clusters 10 compounds whose mechanism of action was unknown were tested for inhibition of complex I activity in bovine heart sub-mitochondrial particles (SMP) resulting in the discovery that 5 of the 10 compounds demonstrated significant inhibition with IC50's in the nM range for three of the five. Examination of screening profiles of the five inhibitors toward the NCI's tumor cell lines revealed that they were cytotoxic to the leukemia subpanel (particularly K562 cells). Oxygen consumption experiments with permeabilized K562 cells revealed that the five most active compounds inhibited complex I activity in these cells in the same rank order and similar potency as determined with bovine heart SMP. Our findings thus fortify the appeal of mitochondrial complex I as a possible anticancer molecular target and provide a data mining strategy for selecting candidate inhibitors for further testing.
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- Constance J Glover
- Developmental Therapeutics Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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Batandier C, Guigas B, Detaille D, El-Mir MY, Fontaine E, Rigoulet M, Leverve XM. The ROS production induced by a reverse-electron flux at respiratory-chain complex 1 is hampered by metformin. J Bioenerg Biomembr 2006; 38:33-42. [PMID: 16732470 DOI: 10.1007/s10863-006-9003-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production was investigated in mitochondria extracted from liver of rats treated with or without metformin, a mild inhibitor of respiratory chain complex 1 used in type 2 diabetes. A high rate of ROS production, fully suppressed by rotenone, was evidenced in non-phosphorylating mitochondria in the presence of succinate as a single complex 2 substrate. This ROS production was substantially lowered by metformin pretreatment and by any decrease in membrane potential (Delta Phi(m)), redox potential (NADH/NAD), or phosphate potential, as induced by malonate, 2,4-dinitrophenol, or ATP synthesis, respectively. ROS production in the presence of glutamate-malate plus succinate was lower than in the presence of succinate alone, but higher than in the presence of glutamate-malate. Moreover, while rotenone both increased and decreased ROS production at complex 1 depending on forward (glutamate-malate) or reverse (succinate) electron flux, no ROS overproduction was evidenced in the forward direction with metformin. Therefore, we propose that reverse electron flux through complex 1 is an alternative pathway, which leads to a specific metformin-sensitive ROS production.
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- Cécile Batandier
- INSERM E-0221 Bioénergétique Fondamentale et Appliquée, Universit Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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Ventura N, Rea SL, Testi R. Long-lived C. elegans mitochondrial mutants as a model for human mitochondrial-associated diseases. Exp Gerontol 2006; 41:974-91. [PMID: 16945497 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2006.06.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2006] [Revised: 06/17/2006] [Accepted: 06/30/2006] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Mitochondria play a pivotal role in the life of cells, controlling diverse processes ranging from energy production to the regulation of cell death. In humans, numerous pathological conditions have been linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. Cancer, diabetes, obesity, neurodegeneration, cardiomyopathy and even aging are all associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. Over 400 mutations in mitochondrial DNA result directly in pathology and many more disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction arise from mutations in nuclear DNA. It is counter-intuitive then, that a class of mitochondrially defective mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the so called Mit (Mitochondrial) mutants, in fact live longer than wild-type animals. In this review, we will reconcile this paradox and provide support for the idea that the Mit mutants are in fact an excellent model for studying human mitochondrial associated diseases (HMADs). In the context of the 'Mitochondrial Threshold Effect Theory', we propose that the kinds of processes induced to counteract mitochondrial mutations in the Mit mutants (and which mediate their life extension), are very likely the same ones activated in many HMADs to delay disease appearance. The identification of such compensatory pathways opens a window of possibility for future preventative therapies for many HMADs. They may also provide a way of potentially extending human life span.
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- Natascia Ventura
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.
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Quiles JL, Barja G, Battino M, Mataix J, Solfrizzi V. Role of Olive Oil and Monounsaturated Fatty Acids in Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress and Aging. Nutr Rev 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2006.tb00261.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Chen Q, Moghaddas S, Hoppel CL, Lesnefsky EJ. Reversible blockade of electron transport during ischemia protects mitochondria and decreases myocardial injury following reperfusion. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2006; 319:1405-12. [PMID: 16990510 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.106.110262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Cardiac mitochondria sustain damage during ischemia and reperfusion, contributing to cell death. The reversible blockade of electron transport during ischemia with amobarbital, an inhibitor at the rotenone site of complex I, protects mitochondria against ischemic damage. Amobarbital treatment immediately before ischemia was used to test the hypothesis that damage to mitochondrial respiration occurs mainly during ischemia and that protection of mitochondria during ischemia leads to decreased cardiac injury with reperfusion. Langendorff-perfused Fischer-344 rat hearts were treated with amobarbital (2.5 mM) or vehicle for 1 min immediately before 25 min of global ischemia. Both groups were reperfused for 30 min without additional treatment. Subsarcolemmal (SSM) and interfibrillar (IFM) populations of mitochondria were isolated after reperfusion. Ischemia and reperfusion decreased state 3 and increased state 4 respiration rate in both SSM and IFM. Amobarbital treatment protected oxidative phosphorylation measured following reperfusion and improved the coupling of respiration. Cytochrome c content measured in SSM and IFM following reperfusion decreased in untreated, but not in amobarbital-treated, hearts. H(2)O(2) release from SSM and IFM isolated from amobarbital-treated hearts during reperfusion was markedly decreased. Amobarbital treatment before ischemia improved recovery of contractile function (percentage of preischemic developed pressure: untreated 51 +/- 4%, n = 12; amobarbital 70 +/- 4%, n = 11, p < 0.01) and substantially reduced infarct size (untreated 32 +/- 2%, n = 7; amobarbital 13 +/- 2%, n = 7, p < 0.01). Thus, mitochondrial damage occurs mainly during ischemia rather than during reperfusion. Reperfusion in the setting of preserved mitochondrial respiratory function attenuates the mitochondrial release of reactive oxygen species, enhances contractile recovery, and decreases myocardial infarct size.
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- Qun Chen
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Chen Q, Camara AKS, Stowe DF, Hoppel CL, Lesnefsky EJ. Modulation of electron transport protects cardiac mitochondria and decreases myocardial injury during ischemia and reperfusion. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2006; 292:C137-47. [PMID: 16971498 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00270.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Mitochondria are increasingly recognized as lynchpins in the evolution of cardiac injury during ischemia and reperfusion. This review addresses the emerging concept that modulation of mitochondrial respiration during and immediately following an episode of ischemia can attenuate the extent of myocardial injury. The blockade of electron transport and the partial uncoupling of respiration are two mechanisms whereby manipulation of mitochondrial metabolism during ischemia decreases cardiac injury. Although protection by inhibition of electron transport or uncoupling of respiration initially appears to be counterintuitive, the continuation of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in the pathological milieu of ischemia generates reactive oxygen species, mitochondrial calcium overload, and the release of cytochrome c. The initial target of these deleterious mitochondrial-driven processes is the mitochondria themselves. Consequences to the cardiomyocyte, in turn, include oxidative damage, the onset of mitochondrial permeability transition, and activation of apoptotic cascades, all favoring cardiomyocyte death. Ischemia-induced mitochondrial damage carried forward into reperfusion further amplifies these mechanisms of mitochondrial-driven myocyte injury. Interruption of mitochondrial respiration during early reperfusion by pharmacologic blockade of electron transport or even recurrent hypoxia or brief ischemia paradoxically decreases cardiac injury. It increasingly appears that the cardioprotective paradigms of ischemic preconditioning and postconditioning utilize modulation of mitochondrial oxidative metabolism as a key effector mechanism. The initially counterintuitive approach to inhibit mitochondrial respiration provides a new cardioprotective paradigm to decrease cellular injury during both ischemia and reperfusion.
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- Qun Chen
- Cardiology Section, Medical Service 111(W), Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, 10701 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Brady NR, Hamacher-Brady A, Westerhoff HV, Gottlieb RA. A wave of reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced ROS release in a sea of excitable mitochondria. Antioxid Redox Signal 2006; 8:1651-65. [PMID: 16987019 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2006.8.1651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Once considered simply as the main source of ATP, mitochondria are now implicated in the control of many additional aspects of cell physiology, such as calcium signaling, and pathology, as in injury incurred on ischemia and subsequent reperfusion (I/R). Mitochondrial respiration is ordinarily accompanied by low-level ROS production, but they can respond to elevated ROS concentrations by increasing their own ROS production, a phenomenon termed ROS-induced ROS release (RIRR). Two modes of RIRR have been described. In the first mode of RIRR, enhanced ROS leads to mitochondrial depolarization via activation of the MPTP, yielding a short-lived burst of ROS originating from the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC). The second mode of RIRR is MPTP independent but is regulated by the mitochondrial benzodiazepine receptor (mBzR). Increased ROS in the mitochondrion triggers opening of the inner mitochondrial membrane anion channel (IMAC), resulting in a brief increase in ETC-derived ROS. Both modes of RIRR have been shown to transmit localized mitochondrial perturbations throughout the cardiac cell in the form of oscillations or waves but are kinetically distinct and may involve different ROS that serve as second messengers. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms of these different modes of RIRR.
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- Nathan R Brady
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Rottenberg H. Longevity and the evolution of the mitochondrial DNA-coded proteins in mammals. Mech Ageing Dev 2006; 127:748-60. [PMID: 16876233 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2006.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2005] [Revised: 12/22/2005] [Accepted: 06/12/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The amino acids sequences of the mitochondrial DNA-coded peptides of placental mammals evolved at different rates in different branches of the mammalian phylogenetic tree. Adaptive selection was suggested to account for the faster evolution of some mitochondrial DNA-coded proteins in several branches of the mammalian tree, but the driving force(s) for the accelerated evolution has not been elucidated. Mitochondria generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) that appear to constrain the life span of many species. Therefore, I tested the hypothesis that the evolution of mammalian longevity drives the accelerated evolution of mitochondrial DNA-coded peptides. Using rodents as an outgroup for a clad that included most placental mammals (excluding rodents and hedgehogs) the computed rates of amino acid substitution per site were positively correlated with genus longevity (maximal observed averaged life span) for most of the mitochondrial DNA-coded peptides. The substitution per site of ATP6, the proton conducting subunit of ATPsynthase, CYTB, the core subunit of ubiquinone oxidoreductase that participate in both electron and proton transport, and ND3, a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase, showed the strongest correlations with longevity. Additional confirmation for the hypothesis was obtained by the observation that the genetic distances between placental mammals species that belong to different orders are positively correlated with the sum of longevities of the species pairs. The substitutions per site for the entire amino acid sequence coded by the heavy strand mtDNA were also positively correlated with the average longevities of the placental mammals orders. These results support the hypothesis that the evolution of longevity in mammals drove the accelerated evolution of mtDNA-coded peptide. It is suggested that, in mammals, adaptive selection of mutations that decrease the rate of production of reactive oxygen species, directly or indirectly (e.g. by increasing proton leak), increases longevity.
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- Hagai Rottenberg
- New Hope Biomedical R&D, 23 W. Bridge Street, New Hope, PA 18938, USA.
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Tretter L, Adam-Vizi V. Moderate dependence of ROS formation on DeltaPsim in isolated brain mitochondria supported by NADH-linked substrates. Neurochem Res 2006; 32:569-75. [PMID: 16933091 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-006-9130-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/28/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The membrane potential (DeltaPsim) 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 H(2)O(2) 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 H(2)O(2) formation from 207 +/- 4.5 to 312 +/- 12 pmol/min/mg protein. Depolarization by FCCP (5-250 nM) in the presence of BSA decreased H(2)O(2) formation but only to the level observed in the absence of BSA. Rotenone stimulated the formation of H(2)O(2) both in the absence and presence of BSA. It is suggested that H(2)O(2) formation in mitochondria supported by NADH-linked substrates is sensitive to changes in DeltaPsim only when mitochondria are highly polarized and even then, 60% of ROS generation is independent of DeltaPsim. This is in contrast to earlier reports on the highly DeltaPsim sensitive ROS formation related to reverse electron flow observed in well-coupled succinate-supported mitochondria.
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- Laszlo Tretter
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Semmelweis University, P.O. Box 262, Budapest H-1444, Hungary
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Bonawitz ND, Rodeheffer MS, Shadel GS. Defective mitochondrial gene expression results in reactive oxygen species-mediated inhibition of respiration and reduction of yeast life span. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:4818-29. [PMID: 16782871 PMCID: PMC1489155 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.02360-05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial dysfunction causes numerous human diseases and is widely believed to be involved in aging. However, mechanisms through which compromised mitochondrial gene expression elicits the reported variety of cellular defects remain unclear. The amino-terminal domain (ATD) of yeast mitochondrial RNA polymerase is required to couple transcription to translation during expression of mitochondrial DNA-encoded oxidative phosphorylation subunits. Here we report that several ATD mutants exhibit reduced chronological life span. The most severe of these (harboring the rpo41-R129D mutation) displays imbalanced mitochondrial translation, conditional inactivation of respiration, elevated production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and increased oxidative stress. Reduction of ROS, via overexpression of superoxide dismutase (SOD1 or SOD2 product), not only greatly extends the life span of this mutant but also increases its ability to respire. Another ATD mutant with similarly reduced respiration (rpo41-D152A/D154A) accumulates only intermediate levels of ROS and has a less severe life span defect that is not rescued by SOD. Altogether, our results provide compelling evidence for the "vicious cycle" of mitochondrial ROS production and lead us to propose that the amount of ROS generated depends on the precise nature of the mitochondrial gene expression defect and initiates a downward spiral of oxidative stress only if a critical threshold is crossed.
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- Nicholas D Bonawitz
- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar St., P.O. Box 208023, New Haven, CT 06520-8023, USA
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Andrukhiv A, Costa AD, West IC, Garlid KD. Opening mitoKATP increases superoxide generation from complex I of the electron transport chain. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2006; 291:H2067-74. [PMID: 16798828 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00272.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Opening the mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K(+) channel (mitoK(ATP)) increases levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cardiomyocytes. This increase in ROS is necessary for cardioprotection against ischemia-reperfusion injury; however, the mechanism of mitoK(ATP)-dependent stimulation of ROS production is unknown. We examined ROS production in suspensions of isolated rat heart and liver mitochondria, using fluorescent probes that are sensitive to hydrogen peroxide. When mitochondria were treated with the K(ATP) channel openers diazoxide or cromakalim, their ROS production increased by 40-50%, and this effect was blocked by 5-hydroxydecanoate. ROS production exhibited a biphasic dependence on valinomycin concentration, with peak production occurring at valinomycin concentrations that catalyze about the same K(+) influx as K(ATP) channel openers. ROS production decreased with higher concentrations of valinomycin and with all concentrations of a classical protonophoretic uncoupler. Our studies show that the increase in ROS is due specifically to K(+) influx into the matrix and is mediated by the attendant matrix alkalinization. Myxothiazol stimulated mitoK(ATP)-dependent ROS production, whereas rotenone had no effect. This indicates that the superoxide originates in complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) of the electron transport chain.
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Camello-Almaraz C, Gomez-Pinilla PJ, Pozo MJ, Camello PJ. Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species and Ca2+ signaling. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2006; 291:C1082-8. [PMID: 16760264 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00217.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 241] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mitochondria are an important source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) formed as a side product of oxidative phosphorylation. The main sites of oxidant production are complex I and complex III, where electrons flowing from reduced substrates are occasionally transferred to oxygen to form superoxide anion and derived products. These highly reactive compounds have a well-known role in pathological states and in some cellular responses. However, although their link with Ca(2+) is well studied in cell death, it has been hardly investigated in normal cytosolic calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) signals. Several Ca(2+) transport systems are modulated by oxidation. Oxidation increases the activity of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and ryanodine receptors, the main channels releasing Ca(2+) from intracellular stores in response to cellular stimulation. On the other hand, mitochondria are known to control [Ca(2+)](i) signals by Ca(2+) uptake and release during cytosolic calcium mobilization, specially in mitochondria situated close to Ca(2+) release channels. Mitochondrial inhibitors modify calcium signals in numerous cell types, including oscillations evoked by physiological stimulus. Although these inhibitors reduce mitochondrial Ca(2+) uptake, they also impair ROS production in several systems. In keeping with this effect, recent reports show that antioxidants or oxidant scavengers also inhibit physiological calcium signals. Furthermore, there is evidence that mitochondria generate ROS in response to cell stimulation, an effect suppressed by mitochondrial inhibitors that simultaneously block [Ca(2+)](i) signals. Together, the data reviewed here indicate that Ca(2+)-mobilizing stimulus generates mitochondrial ROS, which, in turn, facilitate [Ca(2+)](i) signals, a new aspect in the biology of mitochondria. Finally, the potential implications for biological modeling are discussed.
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Kussmaul L, Hirst J. The mechanism of superoxide production by NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) from bovine heart mitochondria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:7607-12. [PMID: 16682634 PMCID: PMC1472492 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0510977103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 517] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2005] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) is a major source of reactive oxygen species in mitochondria and a significant contributor to cellular oxidative stress. Here, we describe the kinetic and molecular mechanism of superoxide production by complex I isolated from bovine heart mitochondria and confirm that it produces predominantly superoxide, not hydrogen peroxide. Redox titrations and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy exclude the iron-sulfur clusters and flavin radical as the source of superoxide, and, in the absence of a proton motive force, superoxide formation is not enhanced during turnover. Therefore, superoxide is formed by the transfer of one electron from fully reduced flavin to O2. The resulting flavin radical is unstable, so the remaining electron is probably redistributed to the iron-sulfur centers. The rate of superoxide production is determined by a bimolecular reaction between O2 and reduced flavin in an empty active site. The proportion of the flavin that is thus competent for reaction is set by a preequilibrium, determined by the dissociation constants of NADH and NAD+, and the reduction potentials of the flavin and NAD+. Consequently, the ratio and concentrations of NADH and NAD+ determine the rate of superoxide formation. This result clearly links our mechanism for the isolated enzyme to studies on intact mitochondria, in which superoxide production is enhanced when the NAD+ pool is reduced. Therefore, our mechanism forms a foundation for formulating causative connections between complex I defects and pathological effects.
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- Lothar Kussmaul
- *Medical Research Council Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Wellcome Trust/Medical Research Council Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, United Kingdom; and
- Department of Central Nervous System Research, Boehringer–Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Birkendorfer Strasse 65, 88397 Biberach, Germany
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- *Medical Research Council Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Wellcome Trust/Medical Research Council Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, United Kingdom; and
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Lenaz G, Fato R, Genova ML, Bergamini C, Bianchi C, Biondi A. Mitochondrial Complex I: structural and functional aspects. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2006; 1757:1406-20. [PMID: 16828051 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2006] [Revised: 04/10/2006] [Accepted: 05/05/2006] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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This review examines two aspects of the structure and function of mitochondrial Complex I (NADH Coenzyme Q oxidoreductase) that have become matter of recent debate. The supramolecular organization of Complex I and its structural relation with the remainder of the respiratory chain are uncertain. Although the random diffusion model [C.R. Hackenbrock, B. Chazotte, S.S. Gupte, The random collision model and a critical assessment of diffusion and collision in mitochondrial electron transport, J. Bioenerg. Biomembranes 18 (1986) 331-368] has been widely accepted, recent evidence suggests the presence of supramolecular aggregates. In particular, evidence for a Complex I-Complex III supercomplex stems from both structural and kinetic studies. Electron transfer in the supercomplex may occur by electron channelling through bound Coenzyme Q in equilibrium with the pool in the membrane lipids. The amount and nature of the lipids modify the aggregation state and there is evidence that lipid peroxidation induces supercomplex disaggregation. Another important aspect in Complex I is its capacity to reduce oxygen with formation of superoxide anion. The site of escape of the single electron is debated and either FMN, iron-sulphur clusters, and ubisemiquinone have been suggested. The finding in our laboratory that two classes of hydrophobic inhibitors have opposite effects on superoxide production favours an iron-sulphur cluster (presumably N2) is the direct oxygen reductant. The implications in human pathology of better knowledge on these aspects of Complex I structure and function are briefly discussed.
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- Giorgio Lenaz
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 48, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
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Grivennikova VG, Vinogradov AD. Generation of superoxide by the mitochondrial Complex I. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2006; 1757:553-61. [PMID: 16678117 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2005] [Revised: 03/13/2006] [Accepted: 03/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Superoxide production by inside-out coupled bovine heart submitochondrial particles, respiring with succinate or NADH, was measured. The succinate-supported production was inhibited by rotenone and uncouplers, showing that most part of superoxide produced during succinate oxidation is originated from univalent oxygen reduction by Complex I. The rate of the superoxide (O2*-)) production during respiration at a high concentration of NADH (1 mM) was significantly lower than that with succinate. Moreover, the succinate-supported O2*- production was significantly decreased in the presence of 1 mM NADH. The titration curves, i.e., initial rates of superoxide production versus NADH concentration, were bell-shaped with the maximal rate (at 50 microM NADH) approaching that seen with succinate. Both NAD+ and acetyl-NAD+ inhibited the succinate-supported reaction with apparent Ki's close to their Km's in the Complex I-catalyzed succinate-dependent energy-linked NAD+ reduction (reverse electron transfer) and NADH:acetyl-NAD+ transhydrogenase reaction, respectively. We conclude that: (i) under the artificial experimental conditions the major part of superoxide produced by the respiratory chain is formed by some redox component of Complex I (most likely FMN in its reduced or free radical form); (ii) two different binding sites for NADH (F-site) and NAD+ (R-site) in Complex I provide accessibility of the substrates-nucleotides to the enzyme red-ox component(s); F-site operates as an entry for NADH oxidation, whereas R-site operates in the reverse electron transfer and univalent oxygen reduction; (iii) it is unlikely that under the physiological conditions (high concentrations of NADH and NAD+) Complex I is responsible for the mitochondrial superoxide generation. We propose that the specific NAD(P)H:oxygen superoxide (hydrogen peroxide) producing oxidoreductase(s) poised in equilibrium with NAD(P)H/NAD(P)+ couple should exist in the mitochondrial matrix, if mitochondria are, indeed, participate in ROS-controlled processes under physiologically relevant conditions.
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- Vera G Grivennikova
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russian Federation
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Zhao QL, Fujiwara Y, Kondo T. Mechanism of cell death induction by nitroxide and hyperthermia. Free Radic Biol Med 2006; 40:1131-43. [PMID: 16545680 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.10.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2005] [Revised: 10/22/2005] [Accepted: 10/30/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Heat stress and nitroxides induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) and proapoptotic effects. The underlying mechanisms remain largely elusive. Here we report that Tempo (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl) is a potent thermosensitizer for promoting cell death in human leukemia U937 cells. Treatment with Tempo (10 mM, 37 degrees C/30 min) and hyperthermia (44 degrees C/30 min) induced 30 and 70-80% apoptosis, respectively, through Bax-mediated cytochrome c release and DEVDase activation. The Tempo/heat combination also caused Bax-mediated cytochrome c release, but switched heat-induced apoptosis to the particular pyknotic cell death, resulting in the irreparable inhibition of proliferation. Tempo and heat stress, but not the combination, caused an early transient elevation of H2O2/O2*- and a late induction of only O2*-, respectively. Mitochondrial Ca2+ overloads were indistinguishable after any treatment. Heat stress induced the pan-caspase inhibitor zVAD-fmk-suppressible low-Deltapsi (mitochondrial membrane potential) in 75% of cells as a result of DEVDase activation. In contrast, Tempo yielded low-Deltapsi by deprivation of the mitochondrial H+ gradient. The combined treatment induced 97% zVAD-resistant low-Deltapsi cells through irreversible mitochondrial dysfunction. Together, thus, Tempo or heat stress induced Bax-mediated mitochondrial apoptosis with the possible help of ROS or mitochondrial Ca2+, and Tempo when combined with hyperthermia acts a sensitizer by inducing irreparable pyknotic cell death through irreversible mitochondrial dysfunction.
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- Qing-Li Zhao
- Department of Radiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sugitani 2630, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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Chen Q, Lesnefsky EJ. Depletion of cardiolipin and cytochrome c during ischemia increases hydrogen peroxide production from the electron transport chain. Free Radic Biol Med 2006; 40:976-82. [PMID: 16540393 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.10.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2005] [Revised: 10/04/2005] [Accepted: 10/19/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Mitochondrial electron transport is a major source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during cardiac ischemia and reperfusion. In the isolated rabbit heart, 30 and 45 min of ischemia decrease the contents of cardiolipin and cytochrome c in subsarcolemmal mitochondria (SSM) located beneath the plasma membrane. In contrast, interfibrillar mitochondria (IFM) in the interior of the myocyte do not sustain a decrease in cardiolipin. We proposed that the depletion of cardiolipin and the accompanying cytochrome c loss during ischemia were critical events that amplified ROS production by mitochondria. The total production of H2O2 was measured in submitochondrial particles (SMP) prepared from rabbit heart SSM and IFM after 0, 15, 30, and 45 min of ischemia. With NADH as substrate, total H2O2 production was increased only in SMP from SSM after 30 and 45 min ischemia, when ischemia decreased the content of cardiolipin and cytochrome c. In contrast, ischemia did not augment H2O2 generation in SMP from IFM with preserved cardiolipin and cytochrome c content. Thus, during the evolution of ischemic injury, H2O2 production from the electron transport chain increased after depletion of cardiolipin and the loss of cytochrome c.
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- Qun Chen
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Lenaz G, Baracca A, Fato R, Genova ML, Solaini G. New insights into structure and function of mitochondria and their role in aging and disease. Antioxid Redox Signal 2006; 8:417-37. [PMID: 16677088 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2006.8.417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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This review covers some novel findings on mitochondrial biochemistry and discusses diseases due to mitochondrial DNA mutations as a model of the changes occurring during physiological aging. The random collision model of organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain has been recently challenged on the basis of findings of supramolecular organization of respiratory chain complexes. The source of superoxide in Complex I is discussed on the basis of laboratory experiments using a series of specific inhibitors and is presumably iron sulfur center N2. Maternally inherited diseases due to mutations of structural genes in mitochondrial DNA are surveyed as a model of alterations mimicking those occurring during normal aging. The molecular defects in senescence are surveyed on the basis of the "Mitochondrial Theory of Aging", establishing mitochondrial DNA somatic mutations, caused by accumulation of oxygen radical damage, to be at the basis of cellular senescence. Mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species increases with aging and mitochondrial DNA mutations and deletions accumulate and may be responsible for oxidative phosphorylation defects. Evidence is presented favoring the mitochondrial theory, with primary mitochondrial alterations, although the problem is made more complex by changes in the cross-talk between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.
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- Giorgio Lenaz
- Dipartimento di Biochimica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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Miwa S, Brand MD. The topology of superoxide production by complex III and glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase in Drosophila mitochondria. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2006; 1709:214-9. [PMID: 16140258 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2005.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2005] [Revised: 07/24/2005] [Accepted: 08/06/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The topology of superoxide generation by sn-glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and complex III in intact Drosophila mitochondria was studied using aconitase inactivation to measure superoxide production in the matrix, and hydrogen peroxide formation in the presence of superoxide dismutase to measure superoxide production from both sides of the membrane. Aconitase inactivation was calibrated using the known rate of matrix superoxide production from complex I. Glycerol phosphate dehydrogenase generated superoxide about equally to each side of the membrane, whereas centre o of complex III in the presence of antimycin A generated superoxide about 30% on the cytosolic side and 70% on the matrix side.
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- Satomi Miwa
- MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge CB2 2XY, UK
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Pamplona R, Barja G. Mitochondrial oxidative stress, aging and caloric restriction: the protein and methionine connection. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2006; 1757:496-508. [PMID: 16574059 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2005] [Revised: 01/10/2006] [Accepted: 01/28/2006] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Caloric restriction (CR) decreases aging rate and mitochondrial ROS (MitROS) production and oxidative stress in rat postmitotic tissues. Low levels of these parameters are also typical traits of long-lived mammals and birds. However, it is not known what dietary components are responsible for these changes during CR. It was recently observed that 40% protein restriction without strong CR also decreases MitROS generation and oxidative stress. This is interesting because protein restriction also increases maximum longevity (although to a lower extent than CR) and is a much more practicable intervention for humans than CR. Moreover, it was recently found that 80% methionine restriction substituting it for l-glutamate in the diet also decreases MitROS generation in rat liver. Thus, methionine restriction seems to be responsible for the decrease in ROS production observed in caloric restriction. This is interesting because it is known that exactly that procedure of methionine restriction also increases maximum longevity. Moreover, recent data show that methionine levels in tissue proteins negatively correlate with maximum longevity in mammals and birds. All these suggest that lowering of methionine levels is involved in the control of mitochondrial oxidative stress and vertebrate longevity by at least two different mechanisms: decreasing the sensitivity of proteins to oxidative damage, and lowering of the rate of ROS generation at mitochondria.
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- Reinald Pamplona
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, Lleida 25008, Spain
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Begriche K, Igoudjil A, Pessayre D, Fromenty B. Mitochondrial dysfunction in NASH: causes, consequences and possible means to prevent it. Mitochondrion 2006; 6:1-28. [PMID: 16406828 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2005.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 532] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2005] [Accepted: 10/13/2005] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Calorie-enriched diet and lack of exercise are causing a worldwide surge of obesity, insulin resistance and lipid accretion in liver (i.e. hepatic steatosis), which can lead to steatohepatitis. Steatosis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) can also be induced by drugs such as amiodarone, tamoxifen and some antiretroviral drugs, including stavudine and zidovudine. There is accumulating evidence that mitochondrial dysfunction (more particularly respiratory chain deficiency) plays a key role in the physiopathology of NASH whatever its initial cause. In contrast, the mitochondrial beta-oxidation of fatty acids can be either increased (as in insulin resistance-associated NASH) or decreased (as in drug-induced NASH). However, in both circumstances, generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by the damaged respiratory chain can be augmented. ROS generation in an environment enriched in lipids in turn induces lipid peroxidation which releases highly reactive aldehydic derivatives (e.g. malondialdehyde) that have diverse detrimental effects on hepatocytes and other hepatic cells. In hepatocytes, ROS, reactive nitrogen species and lipid peroxidation products further impair the respiratory chain, either directly or indirectly through oxidative damage to the mitochondrial genome. This consequently leads to the generation of more ROS and a vicious cycle occurs. Mitochondrial dysfunction can also lead to apoptosis or necrosis depending on the energy status of the cell. ROS and lipid peroxidation products also increase the generation of several cytokines (TNF-alpha, TGF-beta, Fas ligand) playing a key role in cell death, inflammation and fibrosis. Recent investigations have shown that some genetic polymorphisms can significantly increase the risk of steatohepatitis and that several drugs can prevent or even reverse NASH. Interestingly, most of these drugs could exert their beneficial effects by improving directly or indirectly mitochondrial function in liver. Finding a drug, which could fully prevent oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in NASH is a major challenge for the next decade.
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- Karima Begriche
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unité 481, Faculté de Médecine Xavier Bichat, 16 rue Henri Huchard, 750118 Paris, France
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Solaini G, Harris D. Biochemical dysfunction in heart mitochondria exposed to ischaemia and reperfusion. Biochem J 2006; 390:377-94. [PMID: 16108756 PMCID: PMC1198918 DOI: 10.1042/bj20042006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Heart tissue is remarkably sensitive to oxygen deprivation. Although heart cells, like those of most tissues, rapidly adapt to anoxic conditions, relatively short periods of ischaemia and subsequent reperfusion lead to extensive tissue death during cardiac infarction. Heart tissue is not readily regenerated, and permanent heart damage is the result. Although mitochondria maintain normal heart function by providing virtually all of the heart's ATP, they are also implicated in the development of ischaemic damage. While mitochondria do provide some mechanisms that protect against ischaemic damage (such as an endogenous inhibitor of the F1Fo-ATPase and antioxidant enzymes), they also possess a range of elements that exacerbate it, including ROS (reactive oxygen species) generators, the mitochondrial permeability transition pore, and their ability to release apoptotic factors. This review considers the process of ischaemic damage from a mitochondrial viewpoint. It considers ischaemic changes in the inner membrane complexes I-V, and how this might affect formation of ROS and high-energy phosphate production/degradation. We discuss the contribution of various mitochondrial cation channels to ionic imbalances which seem to be a major cause of reperfusion injury. The different roles of the H+, Ca2+ and the various K+ channel transporters are considered, particularly the K+(ATP) (ATP-dependent K+) channels. A possible role for the mitochondrial permeability transition pore in ischaemic damage is assessed. Finally, we summarize the metabolic and pharmacological interventions that have been used to alleviate the effects of ischaemic injury, highlighting the value of these or related interventions in possible therapeutics.
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- Giancarlo Solaini
- *Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento S. Anna, Classe Accademica di Scienze Sperimentali, Piazza dei Martiri della Libertà 33, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Rd., Oxford OX1 3QU, U.K
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Schönfeld P, Reiser G. Rotenone-like action of the branched-chain phytanic acid induces oxidative stress in mitochondria. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:7136-42. [PMID: 16410242 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m513198200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Phytanic acid (Phyt) increase is associated with the hereditary neurodegenerative Refsum disease. To elucidate the still unclear toxicity of Phyt, mitochondria from brain and heart of adult rats were exposed to free Phyt. Phyt at low micromolar concentrations (maximally: 100 nmol/mg of protein) enhances superoxide (O(2)(.))(2) generation. Phyt induces O(2)(.) in state 3 (phosphorylating), as well as in state 4 (resting). Phyt stimulates O(2)(.) generation when the respiratory chain is fed with electrons derived from oxidation of glutamate/malate, pyruvate/malate, or succinate in the presence of rotenone. With succinate alone, Phyt suppresses O(2)(.) generation caused by reverse electron transport from succinate to complex I. The enhanced O(2)(.) generation by Phyt in state 4 is in contrast to the mild uncoupling concept. In this concept uncoupling by nonesterified fatty acids should abolish O(2)(.) generation. Stimulation of O(2)(.) generation by Phyt is paralleled by inhibition of the electron transport within the respiratory chain or electron leakage from the respiratory chain. The interference of Phyt with the electron transport was demonstrated by inhibition of state 3- and p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone (FCCP)-dependent respiration, inactivation of the NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase complex in permeabilized mitochondria, decrease in reduction of the synthetic electron acceptor 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide in state 4, and increase of the mitochondrial NAD(P)H level in FCCP-uncoupled mitochondria. Thus, we suggest that complex I is the main site of Phyt-stimulated O(2)(.) generation. Furthermore, inactivation of aconitase and oxidation of the mitochondrial glutathione pool show that enhanced O(2)(.) generation with chronic exposure to Phyt causes oxidative damage.
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- Peter Schönfeld
- Institut für Biochemie, Institut für Neurobiochemie, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Leipziger Strasse 44, D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany.
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Morten KJ, Ackrell BAC, Melov S. Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in mice lacking superoxide dismutase 2: attenuation via antioxidant treatment. J Biol Chem 2005; 281:3354-9. [PMID: 16326710 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m509261200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mice that lack the mitochondrial form of superoxide dismutase (SOD2) incur severe pathologies and mitochondrial deficiencies, including major depletion of complex II, as a consequence of buildup of endogenous reactive oxygen species (Melov, S., Coskun, P., Patel, M., Tuinstra, R., Cottrell, B., Jun, A. S., Zastawny, T. H., Dizdaroglu, M., Goodman, S. I., Huang, T. T., Miziorko, H., Epstein, C. J., and Wallace, D. C. (1999) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 96, 846-851 and Li, Y., Huang, T. T., Carlson, E. J., Melov, S., Ursell, P. C., Olson, J. L., Noble, L. J., Yoshimura, M. P., Berger, C., Chan, P. H., Wallace, D. C., and Epstein, C. J. (1995) Nat. Genet. 11, 376-381). These problems can be greatly attenuated or rescued by synthetic antioxidant treatment, such as with the catalytic antioxidant EUK189 (Hinerfeld, D., Traini, M. D., Weinberger, R. P., Cochran, B., Doctrow, S. R., Harry, J., and Melov, S. (2004) J. Neurochem. 88, 657-667). We have used heart mitochondria from sod2 null mice to better understand mitochondrial reactive oxygen species production both in the absence of SOD2 and following in vivo antioxidant treatment. Isolated heart mitochondria from 5-day-old sod2 null animals respiring on the complex II substrate succinate exhibited statistically significant higher levels of mitochondrial O2* (157%, p < 0.01) but significantly less H2O2 (33%, p < 0.001) than wild type littermates. Treatment of sod2 nullizygous mice with EUK189 proportionately increased the levels of complex II and H2O2. Increased production of O2* resulting from complex II normalization had no effect on steady state levels due to the rapid conversion to H2O2, a process presumably aided by the presence of the EUK189, an SOD mimetic.
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- Karl J Morten
- Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California 94945, USA
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Hammes E, Hoffmann A, Plieth C, Hansen UP. Light-induced decrease in DCF fluorescence of wheat leaves in the presence of salicyl hydroxamate. PROTOPLASMA 2005; 227:11-5. [PMID: 16389489 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-005-0134-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2005] [Accepted: 05/31/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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5-(and-6)-Carboxy-2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCF-DA), a permeative indicator of oxidative stress, was loaded into dissected leaves of wheat in order to monitor the temporal development of reactive oxygen species. DCF fluorescence was found to be constant under dark conditions. Upon loading the leaves with salicyl hydroxamate, a blocker of the alternative oxidase, DCF fluorescence linearly increased in the dark. This indicates a function of alternative oxidase in preventing reactive oxygen radicals in the mitochondria. Upon illumination, the DCF signal decreased within 5 min. As illuminated chloroplasts would increase the load of reactive oxygen species, the observed decrease cannot be assigned to the production of reactive oxygen species in the chloroplasts. Three different putative mechanisms are considered which all assign an important role to light-induced delivery of NAD(P)H: (1) direct quenching of DCF fluorescence by light-generated NAD(P)H, (2) light-stimulated activation of scavenging enzymes, or (3) redirection of mitochondrial electron fluxes as caused by the delivery of excess redox equivalents (NADH) from the chloroplasts.
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- E Hammes
- Center of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany
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Continuous generation of ATP by mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is essential to maintain function in mechanically active cells such as cardiomyocytes. Emerging evidence indicates that mitochondrial ion channels activated by reactive oxygen species can induce a mitochondrial "critical" state, which can scale to cause electrical and contractile dysfunction of the cardiac cell and, ultimately, the whole heart. Here we focus on how mitochondrial ion channels participate in life-and-death decisions of the cell and discuss the challenges ahead for translating recent findings into novel therapeutic applications.
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- Brian O'Rourke
- Institute of Molecular Cardiobiology, Division of Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Ohnishi ST, Ohnishi T, Muranaka S, Fujita H, Kimura H, Uemura K, Yoshida KI, Utsumi K. A possible site of superoxide generation in the complex I segment of rat heart mitochondria. J Bioenerg Biomembr 2005; 37:1-15. [PMID: 15906144 DOI: 10.1007/s10863-005-4117-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2004] [Accepted: 11/29/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We searched for possible sites of superoxide generation in the complex I segment of the respiratory chain by studying both forward and reverse electron transfer reactions in isolated rat heart mitochondria. Superoxide production was monitored by measuring the release of hydrogen peroxide from mitochondria with a fluorescence spectrophotometer using the Amplex red/horseradish peroxidase system. In the forward electron transfer, a slow superoxide production in the presence of glutamate and malate was enhanced by both rotenone and piericidin A (specific inhibitors at the end of the complex I respiratory chain). Both diphenileneiodonium and ethoxyformic anhydride (inhibitors for respiratory components located upstream of the respiratory chain) inhibited the enhancement by rotenone and piericidin A. In contrast, in reverse electron transfer driven by ATP, both diphenileneiodonium and ethoxyformic anhydride enhanced the superoxide production. Piericidin A also increased superoxide production. Rotenone increased it only in the presence of piericidin A. Our results suggest that the major site of superoxide generation is not flavin, but protein-associated ubisemiquinones which are spin-coupled with iron-sulfur cluster N2.
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- S Tsuyoshi Ohnishi
- Philadelphia Biomedical Research Institute, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA.
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Battaglia V, Salvi M, Toninello A. Oxidative Stress Is Responsible for Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Induction by Salicylate in Liver Mitochondria. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:33864-72. [PMID: 16100122 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m502391200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The interaction of salicylate with the respiratory chain of liver mitochondria generates hydrogen peroxide and, most probably, other reactive oxygen species, which in turn oxidize thiol groups and glutathione. This oxidative stress, confirmed by the prevention of action by antioxidant agents, leads to the induction of the mitochondrial permeability transition in the presence of Ca2+. This phenomenon induces further increase of oxidative damage resulting in impairment of oxidative phosphorylation and beta-oxidation, cardinal features of Reye's syndrome in the liver. Mitochondrial permeability transition induction also induces the release of cytochrome c and apoptotic inducing factor from mitochondria, suggesting that salicylate also behaves as a pro-apoptotic agent. The reactive group of salicylate for inducing oxidative stress is the hydroxyl group which, by interacting with a Fe-S cluster of mitochondrial Complex I, the so-called N-2(Fe-S) center, produces reactive oxygen species.
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- Valentina Battaglia
- Dipartimento di Chimica Biologica, Universitá di Padova, Istituto di Neuroscienze del C.N.R., Unitá per lo studio delle Biomembrane, Viale G. Colombo 3, 35121 Padova, Italy
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Chen Q, Hoppel CL, Lesnefsky EJ. Blockade of electron transport before cardiac ischemia with the reversible inhibitor amobarbital protects rat heart mitochondria. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2005; 316:200-7. [PMID: 16174799 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.105.091702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cardiac ischemia damages the mitochondrial electron transport chain. Irreversible blockade of electron transport at complex I by rotenone decreases ischemic damage to cardiac mitochondria by decreasing the loss of cytochrome c and preserving respiration through cytochrome oxidase. Therapeutic intervention to protect myocardium during ischemia and reperfusion requires the use of a reversible inhibitor that allows resumption of oxidative metabolism during reperfusion. Amobarbital is a reversible inhibitor at the rotenone site of complex I. We asked whether amobarbital administered immediately before ischemia protected respiratory function. Isolated rat hearts were perfused for 15 min followed by 25-min global ischemia at 37 degrees C. Amobarbital-treated hearts received drug for 1 min before ischemia. Subsarcolemmal (SSM) and interfibrillar (IFM) populations of mitochondria were isolated after ischemia, and oxidative phosphorylation was measured. Amobarbital protected oxidative phosphorylation, including through cytochrome oxidase, in both SSM and IFM in a dose-dependent manner, with an optimal dose of 2 to 2.5 mM. Amobarbital also preserved cytochrome c content in both SSM and IFM. Thus, reversible blockade of the electron transport chain during ischemia protects mitochondrial respiration.
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- Qun Chen
- Dept. of Medicine, Cardiology Section, Medical Service 111(W), Case Western Reserve University, Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Andreyev AY, Kushnareva YE, Starkov AA. Mitochondrial metabolism of reactive oxygen species. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2005; 70:200-14. [PMID: 15807660 DOI: 10.1007/s10541-005-0102-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 843] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Oxidative stress is considered a major contributor to etiology of both "normal" senescence and severe pathologies with serious public health implications. Mitochondria generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are thought to augment intracellular oxidative stress. Mitochondria possess at least nine known sites that are capable of generating superoxide anion, a progenitor ROS. Mitochondria also possess numerous ROS defense systems that are much less studied. Studies of the last three decades shed light on many important mechanistic details of mitochondrial ROS production, but the bigger picture remains obscure. This review summarizes the current knowledge about major components involved in mitochondrial ROS metabolism and factors that regulate ROS generation and removal. An integrative, systemic approach is applied to analysis of mitochondrial ROS metabolism, which is now dissected into mitochondrial ROS production, mitochondrial ROS removal, and mitochondrial ROS emission. It is suggested that mitochondria augment intracellular oxidative stress due primarily to failure of their ROS removal systems, whereas the role of mitochondrial ROS emission is yet to be determined and a net increase in mitochondrial ROS production in situ remains to be demonstrated.
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- A Yu Andreyev
- Alumni of Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia
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Galkin A, Brandt U. Superoxide Radical Formation by Pure Complex I (NADH:Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase) from Yarrowia lipolytica. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:30129-35. [PMID: 15985426 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m504709200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is increasingly recognized as an important cellular process involved in numerous physiological and pathophysiological processes. Complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) is considered as one of the major sources of ROS within mitochondria. Yet, the exact site and mechanism of superoxide production by this large membrane-bound multiprotein complex has remained controversial. Here we show that isolated complex I from Yarrowia lipolytica forms superoxide at a rate of 0.15% of the rate measured for catalytic turnover. Superoxide production is not inhibited by ubiquinone analogous inhibitors. Because mutant complex I lacking a detectable iron-sulfur cluster N2 exhibited the same rate of ROS production, this terminal redox center could be excluded as a source of electrons. From the effect of different ubiquinone derivatives and pH on this side reaction of complex I we concluded that oxygen accepts electrons from FMNH2 or FMN semiquinone either directly or via more hydrophilic ubiquinone derivatives.
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- Alexander Galkin
- Universität Frankfurt, Fachbereich Medizin, Zentrum der Biologischen Chemie, D-60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Simm A, Brömme HJ. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and aging: Do we need them — can we measure them — should we block them? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1002/sita.200400053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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