Volume 271, Number 38,
Issue of September 20, 1996
pp. 23117-23120
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
Purification and Characterization of a 43-kDa
Rotenone-insensitive NADH Dehydrogenase from Plant Mitochondria
(Received for publication, May 8, 1996, and in revised form, June 14, 1996)
R. Ian
Menz
and
David A.
Day
From the Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the
Co-operative Research Centre for Plant Science, The Australian
National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
A 43-kDa NAD(P)H dehydrogenase was purified from
red beetroot mitochondria. An antibody against this
dehydrogenase was used in conjunction with the
membrane-impermeable protein cross-linker
3,3
-dithiobis(sulfosuccinimidylpropionate) to localize the
dehydrogenase on the matrix side of the inner membrane. Immunoblotting
showed that the dehydrogenase was found in mitochondria isolated from
several plant species but not from rat livers. Antibodies against
the purified dehydrogenase partially inhibited
rotenoneinsensitive internal NADH oxidation by inside-out
submitochondrial particles. The level of rotenone-insensitive
respiration with NAD-linked substrates correlated with the amount of
43-kDa NAD(P)H dehydrogenase present in mitochondria isolated from
different soybean tissues. Based on these results, we conclude that the
43-kDa NAD(P)H dehydrogenase is responsible for rotenone-insensitive
internal NADH oxidation in plant mitochondria.