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Special Section On Mitochondrial Modeling and Function

Nitric oxide regulation of mitochondrial oxygen consumption II: molecular mechanism and tissue physiology

¹Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom; and ²University of California, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Davis, California

Submitted 5 June 2006 ; accepted in final form 16 February 2007

Nitric oxide (NO) is an intercellular signaling molecule; among its many and varied roles are the control of blood flow and blood pressure via activation of the heme enzyme, soluble guanylate cyclase. A growing body of evidence suggests that an additional target for NO is the mitochondrial oxygen-consuming heme/copper enzyme, cytochrome c oxidase. This review describes the molecular mechanism of this interaction and the consequences for its likely physiological role. The oxygen reactive site in cytochrome oxidase contains both heme iron (a₃) and copper (Cu_B) centers. NO inhibits cytochrome oxidase in both an oxygen-competitive (at heme a₃) and oxygen-independent (at Cu_B) manner. Before inhibition of oxygen consumption, changes can be observed in enzyme and substrate (cytochrome c) redox state. Physiological consequences can be mediated either by direct "metabolic" effects on oxygen consumption or via indirect "signaling" effects via mitochondrial redox state changes and free radical production. The detailed kinetics suggest, but do not prove, that cytochrome oxidase can be a target for NO even under circumstances when guanylate cyclase, its primary high affinity target, is not fully activated. In vivo organ and whole body measures of NO synthase inhibition suggest a possible role for NO inhibition of cytochrome oxidase. However, a detailed mapping of NO and oxygen levels, combined with direct measures of cytochrome oxidase/NO binding, in physiology is still awaited.

mitochondria; cytochrome oxidase

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