Cardiolipin modulates allosterically peroxynitrite detoxification by horse heart cytochrome c

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• 作者：Paolo Ascenzi^a ; ^{ascenzi@uniroma3.it} ; Chiara Ciaccio^b ; ^c ; Federica Sinibaldi^b ; Roberto Santucci^b ; Massimo Coletta^b ; ^c
• 关键词：Horse heart cytochrome c ; Cardiolipin ; Peroxynitrite isomerization ; Allostery
• 刊名：Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：7 January 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：404
• 期：1
• 页码：190-194
• 全文大小：362 K

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Upon interaction with bovine heart cardiolipin (CL), horse heart cytochrome c (cytc) changes its tertiary structure disrupting the heme-Fe-Met80 distal bond, reduces drastically the midpoint potential out of the range required for its physiological role, binds CO and NO with high affinity, and displays peroxidase activity. Here, the effect of CL on peroxynitrite isomerization by ferric cytc (cytc-Fe(III)) is reported. In the absence of CL, hexa-coordinated cytc does not catalyze peroxynitrite isomerization. In contrast, CL facilitates cytc-Fe(III)-mediated isomerization of peroxynitrite in a dose-dependent fashion inducing the penta-coordination of the heme-Fe(III)-atom. The value of the second order rate constant for CL-cytc-Fe(III)-mediated isomerization of peroxynitrite (k_on) is (3.2 ± 0.4) × 10⁵ M⁻¹ s⁻¹. The apparent dissociation equilibrium constant for CL binding to cytc-Fe(III) is (5.1 ± 0.8) × 10⁻⁵ M. These results suggest that CL-cytc could play either pro-apoptotic or anti-apoptotic effects facilitating lipid peroxidation and scavenging of reactive nitrogen species, such as peroxynitrite, respectively.