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. 1983 Jun;72(2):339–344. doi: 10.1104/pp.72.2.339

Binding of Butyl Gallate to Isolated Mung Bean Mitochondria 1

Relationship to Inhibition of the Alternative Pathway

James N Siedow 1, D Mark Bickett 1
PMCID: PMC1066234  PMID: 16663003

Abstract

The binding of radioactively labeled butyl gallate to sucrose gradient-purified mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) mitochondria was studied. Titrations showed the binding of [14C]butyl gallate to the mitochondria consisted of both reversible and irreversible components. The reversible component bound with a dissociation constant of approximately 1 micromolar which was comparable to the observed inhibition constant for the inhibition of the alternative pathway by butyl gallate. The reversible binding of labeled butyl gallate was also prevented by addition of excess, unlabeled salicylhydroxamic acid. The concentration of binding sites associated with reversible butyl gallate binding was around 0.5 nanomole per milligram of mitochondrial protein. These results were consistent with the reversible binding site being associated with the butyl gallate site of inhibition of the cyanide-resistant, alternative electron transfer pathway in mung bean mitochondria. In addition to the reversible butyl gallate binding site, a nonspecific, irreversible association of butyl gallate with the mitochondrial membrane was observed. The latter binding did not readily saturate at high butyl gallate concentrations and was not correlated with butyl gallate inhibition of the alternative pathway.

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