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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
Volume 1861, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.148133
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Respiratory chain supercomplexes; MT-CYB gene in-frame microdeletion; Cytochrome b depletion complex III dysfunction; N-acetylcysteine, rotenone
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- National Institutes of Health [GM 38237]
- Ministero dell' Istruzione, University e della Ricerca [PRIN] [20107Z8XBW]
- Ministero della Salute
- Fondazione Umberto Veronesi
- UBI-Banca Carime, Bari, Italy
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The respiratory complexes are organized in supramolecular assemblies called supercomplexes thought to optimize cellular metabolism under physiological and pathological conditions. In this study, we used genetically and biochemically well characterized cells bearing the pathogenic microdeletion m.15,649-15,666 (Delta I300-P305) in MT-CYB gene, to investigate the effects of an assembly-hampered CIII on the re-organization of supercomplexes. First, we found that this mutation also affects the stability of both CI and CIV, and evidences the occurrence of a preferential structural interaction between CI and CIII2, yielding a small amount of active CI+CIII2 supercomplex. Indeed, a residual CI+CIII combined redox activity, and a low but detectable ATP synthesis driven by CI substrates are detectable, suggesting that the assembly of CIII into the CI+CIII2 supercomplex mitigates the detrimental effects of MT-CYB deletion. Second, measurements of oxygen consumption and ATP synthesis driven by NADH-linked and FADH(2)-linked substrates alone, or in combination, indicate a common ubiquinone pool for the two respiratory pathways. Finally, we report that prolonged incubation with rotenone enhances the amount of CI and CIII2, but reduces CIV assembly. Conversely, the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine increases CIII2 and CIV2 and partially restores respirasome formation. Accordingly, after NAC treatment, the rate of ATP synthesis increases by two-fold compared with untreated cell, while the succinate level, which is enhanced by the homoplasmic mutation, markedly decreases. Overall, our findings show that fine-tuning the supercomplexes stability improves the energetic efficiency of cells with the MT-CYB microdeletion.
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