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. 1969 Oct;115(1):65–75. doi: 10.1042/bj1150065

Interactions of cytochrome c and [14C]-carboxymethylated cytochrome c with monolayers of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidic acid and cardiolipin

P J Quinn 1, R M C Dawson 1
PMCID: PMC1185069  PMID: 5388143

Abstract

1. The interactions between cytochrome c (native and [14C]carboxymethylated) and monolayers of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidic acid and cardiolipin at the air/water interface was investigated by measurements of surface radioactivity, pressure and potential. 2. On a subphase of 10mm-or m-sodium chloride, penetration of cytochrome c into egg phosphatidylcholine monolayers, as measured by an increase of surface pressure, and the number of molecules penetrating, as judged by surface radioactivity, were inversely proportional to the initial pressure of the monolayer and became zero at 20dynes/cm. The constant of proportionality was increased when the cytochrome c was carboxymethylated or decreased when the phospholipid was hydrogenated, but the cut-off point remained at 20dynes/cm. 3. Penetrated cytochrome c could be removed almost entirely by compression of the phosphatidylcholine monolayer above 20dynes/cm. 4. With phosphatidic acid and cardiolipin monolayers on 10mm-sodium chloride the binding of cytochrome c was much stronger and cytochrome c penetrated into films nearing the collapse pressure (>40dynes/cm.). The penetration was partly electrostatically facilitated, since it was decreased by carrying out the reaction on a subphase of m-sodium chloride, and the relationship between the surface pressure increment and the initial film pressure moved nearer to that observed with phosphatidylcholine. 5. Surface radioactivity determinations showed that [14C]carboxymethylated cytochrome c was still adsorbed on phosphatidic acid and cardiolipin monolayers after the cessation of penetration. This adsorption was primarily electrostatic in nature because it could be prevented and substantially reversed by adding m-sodium chloride to the subphase and there was no similar adsorption on phosphatidylcholine films. 6. The penetration into and adsorption on the three phospholipid monolayers was examined as a function of the pH of the subphase and compared with the state of ionization of both the phospholipid and the protein, and the area occupied by the latter at an air/water interface. 7. It is concluded that the binding of cytochrome c to phospholipids can only be partially understood by a consideration of the ionic interaction between the components and that subtle conformational changes in the protein must affect the magnitude and stability of the complex. 8. If cytochrome c is associated with a phospholipid in mitochondria then cardiolipin would fulfil the characteristics of the binding most adequately.

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