Target size of components in oxidative phosphorylation. Studies with a linear accelerator.
Target size of components in oxidative phosphorylation. Studies with a linear accelerator.
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氧化磷酸化组分的目标大小。
DOI:
10.1016/0005-2728(67)90019-9
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发表时间:
1967
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Y. Kagawa
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Y. Kagawa
The actual size and arrangement of tile components of oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondrial membrane in situ is still largely unknown, despite several theories on the presence of morphological and functional units in the membrane such as" respiratory assembly"(mol. wt. 1.4. 1o6) 1 or" elementary particle"(mol. wt. 1.3. IOe) 2, which are composed of stoichiometric amounts of electron-transport carriers. On the other hand, particles of 87 2~ diameter lining the inner mitochondrial membrane were discovered by FERN/~ NDEz-MoRAN a. These were initially suggested to represent elementary particles2, a, but were then found to be identical to coupling factor I (F1), ie mitochondrial ATPase (ATP phosphohydrase, EC 3.6. 1.4) 4, 5. However, the inner membrane observed after fixation is too thin to accommodate these latter units, whereas one observed without fixation might be deformed by artifacts n. The aim of this work was to measure the size of these components in situ by irradiating mitochondria with high-energy electrons and applying the target theory v to deduce the molecular weight of the various mitochondrial enzymes. A suspension of fresh rat-liver mitochondria (protein: 2o mg/ml in o. 25 M sucrose) was prepared as described s, and i ml of the suspension was pipetted into a glass dish (diameter 2.2 cm, depth o. 3 cm) which was placed into the field of irradiation. In some cases the mitochondrial suspension was lyophilized and an amount equivalent to i ml (o. lO7 g) of lyophilized powder was put into the dish. The dishes were covered with parafilm to improve dose distribution. The temperature was kept constant at o for unfrozen samples or at 78.5 for frozen or lyophilized ones. I6-2o dishes were then irradiated with a 6-MeV electron beam emitted uniformly from a linear accelerator (Nippon Electric Co., Tokyo, Model NELAC lOO6) at a dose rate of about I Mrad/min, until the total dose reached the desired value. The dosimeter was calibrated with FeSO 4 solution as described elsewhere 9. After the irradiation, samples were assayed for enzyme activity as indicated in Table I or for electrontransport activities as described 1.The molecular weight of each enzyme was calculated from this statistical ultramicrometry with the equation below. As the density of enzymes is unknown, while the radiation effect is proportional to density, the unit of the target size in this report is g/mole or g/target of NAvogaaro (ie molecular or target weight): it is not possible to express the size as cm3/mole. There are two conditions applying to this equation:(I) activity diminishes exponentially with increased dose irrespective of dose rate (single-hit irreversible inactivation);(2) indirect effects, ie inactivation by radicals produced from irradiated H cO, are negligible (direct-hit inactivation). The equation is: