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. 1992 Oct;63(4):1071–1080. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(92)81677-6

Adenine nucleotide translocase greatly increases the partition of trinitrophenyl-ATP into reduced Triton X-100 micelles.

P J Tummino 1, A Gafni 1
PMCID: PMC1262246  PMID: 1420926

Abstract

The presence of adenine nucleotide translocase (ANT) was found to greatly enhance the partitioning of the ATP analog 2',3'-O-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)-adenosine 5'-triphosphate (TNP-ATP) into reduced Triton X-100 micelles. The protein's effect was studied through the quenching of fluorescence of purified ANT, irreversibly inhibited by carboxyatractyloside (CAT), solubilized in reduced Triton X-100 micelles. The dependence of quenching of the protein's time-resolved tryptophan fluorescence on TNP-ATP concentration was measured and found to follow a Stern-Volmer mechanism. However, the calculated quenching constant was too large to be accounted for by the aqueous TNP-ATP concentration. Experiments were therefore conducted to determine the partitioning of the quencher between the three phases present: aqueous, protein-free micelle, and protein micelle; a system also described by the equation of Omann, G. M., and M. Glaser (1985. Biophys. J. 47:623-627.). By measuring the dependence of the apparent quenching rate constant on the protein concentration and protein/micelle ratios, this equation was used to calculate both the quencher partition coefficient into protein-free micelles (Pm) and into protein-micelles (Ppm), as well as the bimolecular quenching rate constant (kpm) in protein micelles. From the quenching experiments, kpm = 5.0 x 10(8)M-1s-1,Pm = 290 and pyrene quenching experiment to be 325, and by a rapid filtration experiment to be 450. Clearly, the presence of the integral membrane protein ANT-CAT in reduced Triton X-100 micelles greatly increases the partition of TNP-ATP into the micelle. ANT alters the properties and thus, the structure of the detergent micelle, which has direct implications for the use of detergent micelles as a model system for membrane proteins and may indicate that analogous effects occur in the mitochondrial membrane.

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