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. 1989 Dec;86(23):9168–9172. doi: 10.1073/pnas.86.23.9168

Structural dependence of the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration and of NADH oxidase by 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) analogs and their energized accumulation by mitochondria.

R R Ramsay 1, S K Youngster 1, W J Nicklas 1, K A McKeown 1, Y Z Jin 1, R E Heikkila 1, T P Singer 1
PMCID: PMC298455  PMID: 2594758

Abstract

Nineteen structural analogs of 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) were studied for their capacity to inhibit the mitochondrial oxidation of NAD+-linked substrates and the aerobic oxidation of NADH in inner membrane preparations from cardiac mitochondria. In the majority of cases, a good correlation was found between the two inhibition effects monitored. A few compounds were effective inhibitors of NADH oxidase but had only marginal effects on mitochondrial respiration. From studies of their accumulation by mitochondria, it appears likely that the latter compounds are not effectively concentrated by intact mitochondria by the electrical gradient and, in part for this reason, cannot reach sufficiently high concentrations at the appropriate binding site of NADH dehydrogenase. In addition, evidence is presented that the penetration of pyridinium analogs to the inhibition site in the NADH dehydrogenase complex may also be rate limiting. The data support the thesis that, for a substituted tetrahydropyridine to be acutely neurotoxic, its pyridinium oxidation product must be actively accumulated in the mitochondria and must inhibit NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase in its membrane environment.

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