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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
Volume 1859, Issue 2, Pages 154-163Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2017.11.007
Keywords
Biological adaptation; Drosophila; Mitochondrial respiration; Respiratory complex; Supercomplex
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- CREST/JST [JPMJCR12M3]
- JSPS KAKENHI [17H03646]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K21295] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Large assemblies of respiratory chain complexes, known as supercomplexes, are present in the mitochondrial membrane in mammals and yeast, as well as in some bacterial membranes. The formation of supercomplexes is thought to contribute to efficient electron transfer, stabilization of each enzyme complex, and inhibition of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. In this study, mitochondria from various organisms were solubilized with digitonin, and then the solubilized complexes were separated by blue native PAGE (BN-PAGE). The results revealed a supercomplex consisting of complexes I, III, and IV in mitochondria from bovine and porcine heart, and a supercomplex consisting primarily of complexes I and III in mitochondria from mouse heart and liver. However, supercomplexes were barely detectable in Drosophila flight-muscle mitochondria, and only dimeric complex V was present. Drosophila mitochondria exhibited the highest rates of oxygen consumption and NADH oxidation, and the concentrations of the electron carriers, cytochrome c and quinone were higher than in other species. Respiratory chain complexes were tightly packed in the mitochondria] membrane containing abundant phosphatidylethanolamine with the fatty acid palmitoleic acid (C16:1), which is relatively high oxidation-resistant as compared to poly-unsaturated fatty acid. These properties presumably allow efficient electron transfer in Drosophila. These findings reveal the existence of a new mechanism of biological adaptation independent of supercomplex formation.
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