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Exogenous NAD⁺ Effects on Plant Mitochondria

A Reinvestigation of the Transhydrogenase Hypothesis

Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale—DRF/BV, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires et Université Scientifique et Médicale de Grenoble, 85 X-38041 Grenoble Cédex France, Botany Department, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5001, Australia

Addition of NAD⁺ to purified potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) mitochondria respiring -ketoglutarate and malate in the presence of the electron transport inhibitor rotenone, stimulated O₂ uptake. This stimulation was prevented by incubating mitochondria with N-4-azido-2-nitrophenyl-aminobutyryl-NAD⁺ (NAP₄-NAD⁺), an inhibitor of NAD⁺ uptake, but not by 1 mM EGTA, an inhibitor of external NADH oxidation. NAD⁺-stimulated malate-cytochrome c reductase activity, and reduction of added NAD⁺ by intact mitochondria, could be duplicated by rupturing the mitochondria and adding a small quantity to the cuvette. The extent of external NAD⁺ reduction was correlated with the amount of extra mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase present. Malate oxidation by potato mitochondria depleted of endogenous NAD⁺ by storing on ice for 72 hours, was completely dependent on added NAD⁺, and the effect of NAD⁺ on these mitochondria was prevented by incubating them with NAP₄-NAD⁺. External NAD⁺ reduction by these mitochondria was not affected by NAP₄-NAD⁺. We conclude that all effects of exogenous NAD⁺ on plant mitochondrial respiration can be attributed to net uptake of the NAD⁺ into the matrix space.