A mitochondrial signal peptide from Neurospora crassa increases the permeability of isolated rat liver mitochondria

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
P M Sokolove, K W Kinnally

Abstract

Mitochondria that contain Ca2+ can be induced by a variety of triggering agents and conditions to undergo a permeability transition (PT); the inner membrane becomes nonselectively permeable to small solutes. Mastoparan, an amphipathic peptide from wasp venom, has recently been reported to induce this transition (Pfeiffer et al., 1995, J. Biol. Chem. 270,4923). We have examined the effect on the permeability of isolated rat liver mitochondria of a second amphipathic peptide, the signal sequence of cytochrome oxidase subunit IV from Neurospora crassa (pCoxIV, amino acids 3-22), which targets subunit IV to its mitochondrial location. Permeability increases were visualized via mitochondrial swelling with the following results. (1) pCoxIV (5-100 microM) induced concentration-dependent mitochondrial swelling. Control peptides from the N- and C-termini of the voltage-dependent anion-selective channel had no such effect. (2) Swelling required mitochondrial energization; it was eliminated or halted by the uncoupler carbonyl cyanide p-(trifluoromethoxy)phenylhydrazone. (3) Peptide-induced swelling was slowed by increasing concentrations of KCl. (4) Swelling was enhanced by inorganic phosphate (<1 mM). (5) Trifluoperazine (50 microM), pro...Continue Reading

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