Location and mobility of ubiquinones of different chain lengths in artificial membrane vesicles.
Location and mobility of ubiquinones of different chain lengths in artificial membrane vesicles.
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不同链长的泛醌在人工膜囊泡中的位置和迁移率。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00331a016
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发表时间:
1985
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Markley,JL
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作者:
Ulrich,EL;Girvin,ME;Cramer,WA;Markley,JL
Departments of Biological Sciences andChemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Received August 15, 1984; Revised Manuscript Received November 28, 1984 abstract: Ubiquinone (UQ „with «= 2, 3, or 10 isoprenoid groups) was incorporated into small, sonicated vesicles made of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) or dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC).(1) The accessibility of oxidized UQ in DPPC or DMPC vesicles tothe reductant sodium borohydride (NaBH4), measured by UV spectroscopy, was UQ2> UQ3> UQ10 (DPPC) and UQ2> UQ3~ UQ10 (DMPC).(2) Catalysis of the reduction of entrapped ferricyanide by exogenous NaBH4 was more effective with UQ2 than UQ10 but was slower with all quiñones than reduction by added dithionite.(3) The methoxy protons of UQ2 and UQ3 in DPPC and DMPC vesicles exhibited a single NMR resonance centered at~ 3.95 ppm, whereas the methoxy groups of UQ10 gave riseto two separate proton resonances, at 3.93 ppm and a more narrow resonance at 3.78 ppm. The UQ10 population characterized by the 3.78 ppm resonance was present at a higher concentration in DPPC than in DMPC vesicles and was relatively insensitiveto reduction by NaBH4.(4) UQio perturbed the melting temperature (Tm) of DPPC vesicles to a smaller extent (ATm=-1 C) than did UQ2 and UQ3 (ATm=-3 to-4 C). The combined UV and NMR data imply the following: The UQio pool characterized by the 3.78 ppm peak corresponds to a more mobile UQm fraction that is not reduced by NaBH4 in 2-3 min and is thought to be localized close to the center of the DPPC bilayer since it has little effect on the DPPC Tm. The population of UQ10 in DPPC vesicles corresponding to the 3.93 ppm peak would then correspond to the UQi0 pool that is reduced slowly by NaBH4 and is located in a bilayer environment magnetically similar to that of UQ2 and UQ3. UQ2 appears to be positioned near the bilayer surface because of its accessibility to NaBH4 and relatively large effect on the lipid Tm. The distribution of UQ3 according to the kinetic data is intermediate between that of UQ2 and the UQio pool near the bilayer center, although the magnetic environment of UQ3 appears the same as that of UQ2. Physiological activities often require quiñones with long isoprenoid chains. The present data argue against transmembrane “flip-flop” of long-chain quiñones. It is proposed that one essential property of the long-chain quiñones for transfer of electrons and protons across the bilayer is their residence in the hydrophobic core.