The effect of inorganic pyrophosphate on the activity and Pi-binding properties of mitochondrial F1-ATPase.

Eur J Biochem

A. N. Belozersky Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow State University, USSR.

Published: October 1988

Interaction of F1-ATPase from beef heart mitochondria with PPi has been investigated. The presence of PPi in the ATPase assay medium does not affect the initial rate of ATP hydrolysis by F1-ATPase, but slows down the decrease of enzyme activity in the course of ATP hydrolysis and increases the steady-state rate of ATP hydrolysis. Being present in the ATPase assay medium, PPi accelerates the ATP-dependent reactivation of an inactive complex formed by F1-ATPase and ADP. This inactive complex is also reactivated after preincubation with PPi. F1-ATPase, preincubated with PPi, is inactivated by azide much more slowly than is the non-preincubated enzyme. PPi stimulates the binding of Pi to F1-ATPase by decreasing mainly the Kd for Pi and only slightly raising the stoichiometry of high-affinity Pi binding. It follows from the results obtained that PPi interacts with the non-catalytic site(s) of F1-ATPase.

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