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Inhibition sites in F1-ATPase from bovine heart mitochondria.

ABSTRACT: High-resolution crystallographic studies of a number of inhibited forms of bovine F1-ATPase have identified four independent types of inhibitory site: the catalytic site, the aurovertin B-binding site, the efrapeptin-binding site and the site to which the natural inhibitor protein IF1 binds. Hitherto, the binding sites for other inhibitors, such as polyphenolic phytochemicals, non-peptidyl lipophilic cations and amphiphilic peptides, have remained undefined. By employing multiple inhibition analysis, we have identified the binding sites for these compounds. Several of them bind to the known inhibitory sites. The amphiphilic peptides melittin and synthetic analogues of the mitochondrial import pre-sequence of yeast cytochrome oxidase subunit IV appear to mimic the natural inhibitor protein, and the polyphenolic phytochemical inhibitors resveratrol and piceatannol compete for the aurovertin B-binding site (or sites). The non-peptidyl lipophilic cation rhodamine 6G acts at a separate unidentified site, indicating that there are at least five inhibitory sites in the F1-ATPase. Each of the above inhibitors has significantly different activity against the bacterial Bacillus PS3 alpha3beta3gamma subcomplex compared with that observed with bovine F1-ATPase. IF1 does not inhibit the bacterial enzyme, even in the absence of the epsilon-subunit. An understanding of these inhibitors may enable rational development of therapeutic agents to act as novel antibiotics against bacterial ATP synthases or for the treatment of several disorders linked to the regulation of the ATP synthase, including ischaemia-reperfusion injury and some cancers.

SUBMITTER: Gledhill JR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1134879 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Inhibition sites in F1-ATPase from bovine heart mitochondria.

Gledhill Jonathan R JR Walker John E JE

The Biochemical journal 20050301 Pt 3

High-resolution crystallographic studies of a number of inhibited forms of bovine F1-ATPase have identified four independent types of inhibitory site: the catalytic site, the aurovertin B-binding site, the efrapeptin-binding site and the site to which the natural inhibitor protein IF1 binds. Hitherto, the binding sites for other inhibitors, such as polyphenolic phytochemicals, non-peptidyl lipophilic cations and amphiphilic peptides, have remained undefined. By employing multiple inhibition anal ...[more]

PMID: 15537385

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Project description:The exposure to trypsinolysis of subunits of F1F0-ATPase and of its F0 domain have been compared in everted inner membrane vesicles (submitochondrial particles) made from bovine mitochondria. Treatment of submitochondrial particles with guanidine hydrochloride removed the subunits of F1-ATPase and the oligomycin-sensitivity conferral protein (OSCP), and exposed sites that were occluded in the intact F1F0-ATPase complex. These sites were identified by purifying the subunits from the isolated F0 and F1F0-ATPase complexes before and after proteolysis of the vesicles, and by characterizing them by N-terminal sequencing and electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry. In the stripped vesicles, subunit F6 was completely digested away by either trypsin or chymotrypsin. Trypsin also cleaved subunit b, first at the bond arginine-166-glutamine-167, and then at the consecutive linkages, lysine-120-arginine-121 and arginine-121-histidine-122. Chymotrypsin-sensitive sites were observed after the adjacent methionines 164 and 165. Trypsin also removed amino acids 1-3 of subunit d, and minor cleavage sites were observed in subunit d between amino acids 24 and 25, in subunit g between amino acids 5 and 6, and after amino acid 40 in subunit e. The other subunits remained protected from proteolysis. In membrane-bound F1F0-ATPase, the N-terminus of subunit d was also accessible to trypsin, and subunit e was more susceptible to proteolysis than in F0. Otherwise the F0 subunits and the OSCP were protected. Subunits alpha and beta were cleaved by trypsin at the same sites in their N-terminal regions as in purified F1-ATPase. The trypsinized F0 was incapable of binding F1-ATPase in the presence of the OSCP. These experiments and in vitro re-assembly experiments described elsewehere, that were guided by the results of the proteolysis experiments, have helped to establish a central role for subunit b in the formation of the stalk connecting the F1 and F0 domains of the F1F0-ATPase complex.

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Inhibition sites in F1-ATPase from bovine heart mitochondria.

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Inhibition sites in F1-ATPase from bovine heart mitochondria.

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