Stimulation by cytochrome c of the external pathway of NADH oxidation and ascorbate oxidation in the presence of TMPDстатья
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Аннотация:A significantly increased interest of researchers to the mechanisms of cytochrome c release form mitochondria is determined by the role of this process in the induction of apoptosis. It was believed for a long time that cytochrome c can enter mitochondria and be released from them only after the outer membrane damage [1]. A considerable part of cytochrome c is released from mitochondria after their hypotonic treatment, which disrupts the integrity of their outer membrane, and subsequent incubation in media containing high concentrations of cations, which enables desorption of cytochrome c from the outer surface of the inner mitochondrial membrane [2]. Desorption of cytochrome c also increases as a result of peroxidation of cardiolipin in the inner membrane, with negative groups of which cytochrome c is bound in native mitochondria [3].However, under certain conditions, cytochrome c may be released from mitochondria in the absence of damages in the outer membrane, through a cytochrome c-permeable channel formed in it [4, 5]. On the basis of these and other data, we assumed that a pronounced stimulation of mitochondrial respiration by cytochrome c does not necessarily indicate the disruption of integrity of their outer membrane, which calls into question the relevance of estimation of the proportion of mitochondria with a damaged outer membrane by the stimulation of their respiration by exogenous cytochrome c.