We investigated hydrogen peroxide production in mitochondria with low (liver, heart, brain) and high (brown adipose tissue, BAT) content of glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (mGPDH). ROS production at state 4 due to electron backflow from mGPDH was low, but after inhibition of electron transport with antimycin A high rates of mGPDH-dependent ROS production were observed in liver, heart and brain mitochondria. When this ROS production was related to activity of mGPDH, many-fold higher ROS production was found in contrast to succinate- (39-, 28-, 3-fold) or pyruvate plus malate-dependent ROS production (32-, 96-, 5-fold). This specific rate of mGPDH-dependent ROS production was also exceedingly higher (28-, 66-, 22-fold) compared to that in BAT. mGPDH-dependent ROS production was localized to the dehydrogenase+CoQ and complex III, the latter being the highest in all mitochondria but BAT. Our results demonstrate high efficiency of mGPDH-dependent ROS production in mammalian mitochondria with a low content of mGPDH and suggest its endogenous inhibition in BAT.

Department of Bioenergetics Institute of Physiology and Center for Applied Genomics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Vídenská 1083 Prague 4 Czech Republic

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