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BIOCHEMISTRY-MOSCOW
Volume 77, Issue 9, Pages 1021-1028Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S000629791209009X
Keywords
TPP; C12TPP; diffusion potential; movement through lipid bilayer; yeast; Yarrowia lipolytica; mitochondria; fatty acids
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [09-04-01238]
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The permeability of a planar lipid membrane (composed of diphytanoylphosphatidylcholine) for tetraphenylphosphonium (TPP) was investigated. The observed level of the diffusion potential generated as a function of the TPP concentration gradient differed from the theoretically expected value, possibly due to proton leakage of the membrane mediated by the traces of fatty acids in the phospholipid forming the membrane. Using the molecular dynamics approach to study movement of TPP and dodecyltriphenylphosphonium (C12TPP) with different affinity to the lipid bilayer through a bilayer lipid membrane, it was found that C12TPP has a greater affinity to the membrane surface than TPP. However, the two cations have the same activation energy for transmembrane transfer. Interaction of TPP and C12TPP with tightly-coupled mitochondria from the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica was also investigated. At low, micromolar concentrations, both cations are relatively weak, mild uncouplers, do not shunt electron transfer along the respiratory chain, do not disturb (damage) the inner mitochondrial membrane, and profoundly promote the uncoupling effect of fatty acids. At higher concentrations they inhibit respiration in state 3, and at much higher concentrations they induce swelling of mitochondria, possibly due to their detergent action.
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