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First published online August 8, 2008
Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 2617-2623 (2008)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2008
doi: 10.1242/jeb.019729
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Redox regulation of mitochondrial sulfide oxidation in the lugworm, Arenicola marina

Tatjana M. Hildebrandt* and Manfred K. Grieshaber

Institut für Zoophysiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

* Author for correspondence (e-mail: Tatjana.Hildebrandt{at}uni-duesseldorf.de)

Accepted 15 June 2008

Sulfide oxidation in the lugworm, Arenicola marina (L.), is most likely localized in the mitochondria, which can either produce ATP with sulfide as a substrate or detoxify it via an alternative oxidase. The present study identified selective activators of the energy-conserving and the detoxifying sulfide oxidation pathways respectively. In the presence of the ROS scavengers glutathione (GSH) and ascorbate, isolated lugworm mitochondria rapidly oxidized up to 100 µmoll–1 sulfide with maximal oxygen consumption rates but did not produce any ATP in the process. Under these conditions, salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM), which is an inhibitor of the alternative oxidase of plant mitochondria, completely blocked oxygen consumption whereas inhibitors of complex III and IV had hardly any effect. By contrast, dehydroascorbate (DHA) enabled the mitochondria to gain ATP from sulfide oxidation even if the sulfide concentration far exceeded the threshold for inhibition of cytochrome oxidase. In the presence of dehydroascorbate, respiratory rates were independent of sulfide concentrations, with a respiratory control ratio of 2.1±0.2, and both oxygen consumption and ATP production were completely inhibited by myxothiazol and sodium azide but only marginally by SHAM. The present data indicate that a redox mechanism may contribute to the regulation of sulfide oxidation in lugworm mitochondria in vivo. Thus, mitochondria are presumably much more sulfide resistant in a cellular context than previously thought.

Key words: redox regulation, sulfide oxidation, Arenicola marina, alternative oxidase, ATP production, glutathione, ascorbate, dehydroascorbate


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