LIPID OXIDATION IN BIOLOGICAL-MEMBRANES - ELECTRON-TRANSFER PROTEINS AS INITIATORS OF LIPID AUTOXIDATION
LIPID OXIDATION IN BIOLOGICAL-MEMBRANES - ELECTRON-TRANSFER PROTEINS AS INITIATORS OF LIPID AUTOXIDATION
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(75)90036-3
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发表时间:
1975-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
HATEFI, Y
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作者:
KASCHNITZ, RM;HATEFI, Y
Biological lipid autoxidation has been studied in a model system composed of sonicated phospholipids as substrate and electron transfer proteins found in membranes as possible catalysts. Heme compounds, flavoproteins, and iron-sulfur proteins were examined for their ability to initiate lipid autoxidation. Among many heme compounds tested, the most active were hematin ⩾microperoxidase ⪢ methemoglobin > cytochromec. With fresh preparations of phospholipids, reaction rates (nanomoles of oxygen/minute nanomoles of heme) ranged from 5 (cytochromec) to 350 (hematin). Only the oxidized heme compounds were active as catalysts. Reduced heme compounds, flavoproteins and riboflavin were inactive. In the presence of heme compounds, aged preparations of sonicated phospholipids were much more rapidly oxidized than fresh preparations. They also had a higher content of fatty acid hydroperoxides as judged from their characteristic diene absorption peak at 234 nm. This observation agrees with the postulated mechanism of lipid autoxidation by heme compounds, namely, homolytic scission of preformed fatty acid hydroperoxides. Iron-sulfur proteins were also active as initiators of lipid autoxidation when destabilized in the presence of an appropriate iron chelator (o-phenanthroline or 2,2′-bipyridine) or a chaotropic ion. Oxygen uptake rates (nanomoles of oxygen/minute × milligrams of protein) varied from about 200 for an iron-sulfur protein isolated from complex I to about 5500 forClostridium pasteurianumferredoxin. However, per nanomole of labile sulfide, the rates for all active iron-sulfur proteins were 4–7 nmol of oxygen/min × nmol of labile sulfide.Superoxide-generating systems did not initiate lipid autoxidation, nor did erythrocuprein inhibit the autoxidations induced by heme compounds or ferredoxin. However, lipid oxidations induced by two other iron-sulfur proteins were partially inhibited by erythrocuprein. It is concluded that in the above system Superoxide anion is neither an initiator nor an obligatory intermediate of lipid autoxidation.