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Mitochondrial Ca2+ antagonist binding sites are associated with an inner mitochondrial membrane anion channel

G Zernig, I Graziadei, T Moshammer, C Zech, N Reider and H Glossmann

Institut fur Biochemische Pharmakologie, Universitat Innsbruck, Austria.

The inner mitochondrial membrane contains specific Ca2+ antagonist binding sites unrelated to the L-type Ca2+ channel. The mitochondrial 1,4-dihydropyridine (DHP) and phenylalkylamine sites are reciprocally allosterically coupled, require anions (e.g., Cl-, No3-) for optimal binding, and are inhibited by purine and pyrimidine nucleotides in a noncompetitive manner. In mitochondrial swelling experiments, a concentration-dependent inhibition of an inner mitochondrial membrane anion channel (IMAC) by Ca2+ antagonists from different chemical classes can be demonstrated. Under the conditions of the swelling experiments, affinity of different Ca2+ antagonists and amiodarone, a known IMAC inhibitor, for the mitochondrial (+/-)-[3H]nitrendipine binding site (Kd, 7.2 +/- 2.0 microM; Bmax, 1.03 +/- 0.37 nmol/mg of protein) strongly correlated with their inhibitory potency for the IMAC. Linear regression of pIC50 values for IMAC-induced swelling versus pIC50 values for (+/-)-[3H]nitrendipine binding inhibition yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.91 for all tested DHPs (n = 12, p less than 0.001). Amiodarone inhibited (+/-)-[3H]nitrendipine binding and IMAC-induced swelling with pIC50 values of 6.11 and 5.93, respectively. The correlation coefficient between binding and inhibition of IMAC-induced swelling for amiodarone and all tested Ca2+ antagonists (including non-DHP compounds) was 0.76 (n = 20, p less than 0.001), with the slopes approaching unity. These results suggest the association of the mitochondrial Ca2+ antagonist binding sites with an IMAC.

Volume 38, Issue 3, pp. 362-369, 09/01/1990
Copyright © 1990 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics




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