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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 432, Issue 2, Pages 129-135Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2004.09.020
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free radicals; beta-lapachone; naphthoquinone; mitochondria; redox cycling; submitochondrial particles
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2-Phenyl-beta-lapachone (3,4-dihydro-2-methyl-2-phenyl-2H-naphtho [ 1,2b]pyran - 5,6-dione) (2PBL) is a o-naphthoquinone synthesized as a possible antitumoral agent. The addition of micromolar concentrations of 2PBL to rat liver mitochondria (in the presence of malate-glutamate or succinate, as respiratory substrates): (1) stimulated 02 consumption in state 4 and inhibited O-2, consumption in state 3, thus decreasing respiratory control index (RCI); and (2) collapsed the mitochondrial membrane potential. The addition of 2PBL to rat liver submicochondrial particles: (1) stimulated NADH oxidation in the presence of rotenone, antimycin, myxothiazol or cyanide; (2) stimulated .O-2(-) production in the presence of NADH and antimycin; and (3) led to 2PBL semiquinone radical production. Control studies carried out with two p-naphthoquinones, menadione and atovaquone, did not produced equivalent effects. These findings support the hypothesis that 2PBL, undergoes redox cycling and affects mitochondrial function. The 2PBL effect is complex, involving inhibition of electron transfer, uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation, collapse of mitochondrial membrane potential and .O-2(-) production by redox cycling. The mitochondrion could be a target organelle for 2PBL cytotoxicity. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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