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Severin, Fedor F; Severina, Inna I; Antonenko, Yury N; Rokitskaya, Tatiana I; Cherepanov, Dmitry A; Mokhova, Elena N; Vyssokikh, Mikhail Yu; Pustovidko, Antonina V; Markova, Olga V; Yaguzhinsky, Lev S; Korshunova, Galina A; Sumbatyan, Nataliya V; Skulachev, Maxim V; Skulachev, Vladimir P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 01/2010, Volume: 107, Issue: 2Journal Article
A unique phenomenon of mitochondria-targeted protonophores is described. It consists in a transmembrane H⁺-conducting fatty acid cycling mediated by penetrating cations such as 10-(6'-plastoquinonyl)decyltriphenylphosphonium (SkQ1) or dodecyltriphenylphosphonium (C₁₂TPP). The phenomenon has been modeled by molecular dynamics and directly proved by experiments on bilayer planar phospholipid membrane, liposomes, isolated mitochondria, and yeast cells. In bilayer planar phospholipid membrane, the concerted action of penetrating cations and fatty acids is found to result in conversion of a pH gradient (ΔpH) to a membrane potential (Δψ) of the Nernstian value (about 60 mV Δψ at ΔpH = 1). A hydrophobic cation with localized charge (cetyltrimethylammonium) failed to substitute for hydrophobic cations with delocalized charge. In isolated mitochondria, SkQ1 and C₁₂TPP, but not cetyltrimethylammonium, potentiated fatty acid-induced (i) uncoupling of respiration and phosphorylation, and (ii) inhibition of H₂O₂ formation. In intact yeast cells, C₁₂TPP stimulated respiration regardless of the extracellular pH value, whereas a nontargeted protonophorous uncoupler (trifluoromethoxycarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone) stimulated respiration at pH 5 but not at pH 3. Hydrophobic penetrating cations might be promising to treat obesity, senescence, and some kinds of cancer that require mitochondrial hyperpolarization.
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