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. 1988 Jul;87(3):705–710. doi: 10.1104/pp.87.3.705

Respiration of Mitochondria Isolated from Leaves and Protoplasts of Avena sativa1

Barbara M Kelly 1,2, Joseph T Wiskich 1
PMCID: PMC1054824  PMID: 16666211

Abstract

Mitochondria isolated from mesophyll protoplasts differed from mitochondria isolated directly from leaves of Avena sativa in that protoplast mitochondria (a) had a lower overall respiratory capacity, (b) were less able to use low concentrations of exogenous NADH, (c) did not respond rapidly or strongly to added NAD, (d) appeared to accumulate more oxaloacetate, and (e) oxidized both succinate and tetramethyl-p-phenylene-diamine (an electron donor for cytochrome oxidase) more slowly than did leaf mitochondria. It is concluded that cytochrome oxidase activity was inhibited, the external NADH dehydrogenase had a reduced affinity for NADH, succinate oxidation was inhibited, NAD and oxaloacetate porters were probably inhibited, and accessibility to respiratory paths may have been reduced in protoplast mitochondria. The results also suggest that there was a reduced affinity of a succinate porter for this substrate in oat mitochondria. In addition, all oat mitochondria required salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM) as well as cyanide to block malate and succinate oxidation. Malate oxidation that did not appear to saturate the cytochrome pathway was sensitive to SHAM in the absence of cyanide, suggesting that the oat mitochondria studied had concomitant alternative and subsaturating cytochrome oxidase pathway activity.

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