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  • Title: Bid, but not Bax, regulates VDAC channels.
    Author: Rostovtseva TK, Antonsson B, Suzuki M, Youle RJ, Colombini M, Bezrukov SM.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 2004 Apr 02; 279(14):13575-83. PubMed ID: 14729675.
    Abstract:
    During apoptosis, cytochrome c is released from mitochondria into the cytosol, where it participates in caspase activation. Various and often conflicting mechanisms have been proposed to account for the increased permeability of the mitochondrial outer membrane that is responsible for this process. The voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) is the major permeability pathway for metabolites in the mitochondrial outer membrane and therefore is a very attractive candidate for cytochrome c translocation. Here, we report that properties of VDAC channels reconstituted into planar phospholipid membranes are unaffected by addition of the pro-apoptotic protein Bax under a variety of conditions. Contrary to other reports (Shimizu, S., Narita, M., and Tsujimoto, Y. (1999) Nature 399, 483-487; Shimizu, S., Ide, T., Yanagida, T., and Tsujimoto, Y. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 12321-12325; Shimizu, S., Konishi, A., Kodama, T., and Tsujimoto, Y. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 97, 3100-3105), we found no electrophysiologically detectable interaction between VDAC channels isolated from mammalian mitochondria and either monomeric or oligomeric forms of Bax. We conclude that Bax does not induce cytochrome c release by acting on VDAC. In contrast to Bax, another pro-apoptotic protein (Bid) proteolytically cleaved with caspase-8 affected the voltage gating of VDAC by inducing channel closure. We speculate that by decreasing the probability of VDAC opening, Bid reduces metabolite exchange between mitochondria and the cytosol, leading to mitochondrial dysfunction.
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