MEMBRANE STRUCTURE STUDIED WITH CATIONIC DYES .1. BINDING OF CATIONIC DYES TO SUBMITOCHONDRIAL PARTICLES AND QUESTION OF POLARITY OF ION-TRANSLOCATION MECHANISM
MEMBRANE STRUCTURE STUDIED WITH CATIONIC DYES .1. BINDING OF CATIONIC DYES TO SUBMITOCHONDRIAL PARTICLES AND QUESTION OF POLARITY OF ION-TRANSLOCATION MECHANISM
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1972.tb19718.x
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1972-01-01
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COLONNA, R
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DELLANTONE, P;AZZONE, GF;COLONNA, R
Cationic dyes interact weakly with de‐energized submitochondrial particles incubated in a KCl medium. Energization of the particles results in a marked increase of binding. The Scatchard plots reveal, in the case of neutral red, and at pH 7.0, binding sites of 150–200 μmol per g protein with a dissociation constant of about 2.5 μM. In the case of acridine orange at the same pH, the value for binding sites is about 50 μmol per g protein with a dissociation constant of about 2 μM.The binding of the cationic dyes to the energized particles is accompanied by a large decrease of absorbance which is reversed on addition of uncouplers. The change of absorbance is stoichiometrically dependent on the utilization of ATP, but independent of whether energy is supplied from respiration or from ATP. Within a certain range of protein/dye concentration ratio the reaction kinetics appears of pseudo first‐order character.The change of absorbance is proportional to the amount of particles until a saturation is obtained. This permits titration the binding sites of the membrane for the dye, using the “end‐point” of the absorbance change or using the method of continuous variations. The number of binding sites found through these procedures is in agreement with those obtained from the binding experiments.The pH of the medium has a marked effect on the dye‐membrane interaction. Increasing the pH from 6 to 8 results in an increase of the rate of binding, in a decrease of the dissociation constant and in a decrease of the number of binding sites.The lipophilic cation, nupercaine, exerts a marked inhibition on the binding of the cationic dye and the concomitant decrease of absorbancy. The inhibition is of competitive type with aKiof 20 μM.The presence of electrolytes in the medium is required for the high affinity binding and the change of absorbance. Replacement of KCl with sucrose results in abolition of both phenomena.The results are discussed in relation to the problem of the proposed inverted polarity of the ion translocation mechanism in the submitochondrial particles. The suggestion is made that sonication of mitochondria results in a “loss of polarity” rather than in “inversion of polarity”. The kinetics of the interaction indicates a limiting step which is probably that required for the interaction of the dye with the energized site.