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Cyanide-insensitive and Cyanide-sensitive O₂ Uptake in Wheat

I. GRADIENT-PURIFIED MITOCHONDRIA ¹

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721

The mitochondrial fraction isolated from durum wheat seedlings by differential centrifugation demonstrated antimycin A- or cyanide-insensitive O₂ uptake. Further purification of this initial mitochondrial pellet using a linear Percoll (Pharmacia) density gradient separated the mitochondria into two bands of physiologically distinct activity. Based on the usual mitochondrial respiratory criteria of ADP/O and respiratory control values, these fractions were qualitatively similar to the crude pellet. However, we observed no antimycin A-insensitive O₂ uptake in either gradient band. Antimycin A-insensitive O₂ consumption could be restored to the upper gradient band of mitochondria by the addition of linoleic acid. This activity was inhibited either by salicylhydroxamic acid or propyl gallate, a known lipoxygenase inhibitor. Likewise, addition of linoleic acid to the crude mitochondrial pellet elicited a 4- to 5-fold increase in O₂ uptake. This O₂ consumption was insensitive to antimycin A and cyanide but was inhibited by either propyl gallate or salicylhydroxamic acid. Electron microscopic examination revealed that only the lower gradient band contained contamination-free mitochondria, which, in turn, lacked ability to oxidize linoleic acid. Antimycin A-insensitive O₂ consumption in the differential centrifugation fraction from germinating durum wheat seedlings decreased over 64 hours of development.

¹ This work is journal article 3029 of the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station.

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