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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 14, 13575-13583, April 2, 2004

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Bid, but Not Bax, Regulates VDAC Channels^*

Tatiana K. Rostovtseva, Bruno Antonsson¶, Motoshi Suzuki||, Richard J. Youle||, Marco Colombini**, and Sergey M. Bezrukov

From the Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, NICHD, and the ^||Biochemistry Section, Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, the ^¶Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute, 14 Chemin des Aulx, CH-1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland, and the ^**Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

During apoptosis, cytochrome c is released from mitochondria into the cytosol, where it participates in caspase activation. Various and often conflicting mechanisms have been proposed to account for the increased permeability of the mitochondrial outer membrane that is responsible for this process. The voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) is the major permeability pathway for metabolites in the mitochondrial outer membrane and therefore is a very attractive candidate for cytochrome c translocation. Here, we report that properties of VDAC channels reconstituted into planar phospholipid membranes are unaffected by addition of the pro-apoptotic protein Bax under a variety of conditions. Contrary to other reports (Shimizu, S., Narita, M., and Tsujimoto, Y. (1999) Nature 399, 483-487; Shimizu, S., Ide, T., Yanagida, T., and Tsujimoto, Y. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 12321-12325; Shimizu, S., Konishi, A., Kodama, T., and Tsujimoto, Y. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 97, 3100-3105), we found no electrophysiologically detectable interaction between VDAC channels isolated from mammalian mitochondria and either monomeric or oligomeric forms of Bax. We conclude that Bax does not induce cytochrome c release by acting on VDAC. In contrast to Bax, another pro-apoptotic protein (Bid) proteolytically cleaved with caspase-8 affected the voltage gating of VDAC by inducing channel closure. We speculate that by decreasing the probability of VDAC opening, Bid reduces metabolite exchange between mitochondria and the cytosol, leading to mitochondrial dysfunction.

Received for publication, September 24, 2003 , and in revised form, December 23, 2003.

^* The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Lab. of Physical and Structural Biology, NICHD, NIH, Bldg. 9, Rm. 1E-106, Bethesda, MD 20892. Tel.: 301-402-4702; Fax: 301-496-2172; E-mail: rostovts{at}helix.nih.gov.

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