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Mitochondrien aus Rattenleber (RL) und Rinderherzmuskel (BH) erzeugen bei Behandlung mit O2 eine schwache Chemilumineszenz in dem Spektralbereich zwischen 400 und 650 mµ, deren Intensität bei RL-Mitochondrien durch vorheriges Einfrieren und Auftauen wie durch Ultraschallbehandlung größer wird. Bei beiden Arten verursacht Zusatz von Acridinorange eine wesentliche Verstärkung der Lumineszenz, gleichzeitig wird die O2-Aufnahme gehemmt. RL-Mitochondrien erzeugen unter diesen Bedingungen eine kurzzeitige, BH-Mitochondrien eine langsam ansteigende langandauernde Strahlung; das gleiche Verhalten zeigen aus BH-Mitochondrien gewonnene „electrontransfer-particles“ (ETP). Der zeitliche Ablauf und die Beeinflußbarkeit durch Effektoren der Atmungskette ist andersartig als bei der von VLADIMIROV gefundenen Chemilumineszenz von RL-Mitochondrien. Als Träger der Lumineszenz wird angeregter O2 diskutiert.
Lumineszenz von Hefe
(1968)
In systems containing singlet-oxygen and aromatic fluorescers energy transfer from singletoxygen dimers to the dye should be observable by emission of the fluorescer. In order to prove this hypothesis, externally generated singlet-oxygen (1Δg) was bubbled through the solutions of dyes (chlorophyll a, eosin y, rhodamine b, luminol, rubrene and acridine orange) in organic solvents.
Luminescence could be observed and its spectral distribution analyzed by sharp cut-off filters and interference filters (rubrene) . Spectra, rates of oxidation, addition of quenchers and the long lasting time dependence of the reported reactions lead to the conclusion that the observed afterglow is due to chemical oxidation mechanisms producing a chemiluminescence. Therefore an excitation of the substances investigated in these experiments by simple physical energy transfer seems not to be predominant.
The autoxidation of NaSH and Cysteine in the presence of heavy metal ions is accompanied by chemiluminescence due to the formation of O2⊖ or adequate compounds as intermediates. The observation of the luminescence intensity and its time dependence has been used as analytical indication of the occurrence of electron transfer reactions from - SH to O2.
This enabled the study of the influence of different catalytic promoters. The efficiency of different metal ions could easily be demonstrated by their enhancement of light production during the reaction of NaSH with molecular oxygen. Cu (II) as one of the most efficient catalysts was also applied in the form of different complexes. Because it would catalyse the oxidation of cysteine, glutathione and other electron donors of biological interest, the influence of the nature of the ligands of the complexes was investigated. In the case of cysteine only complexes with stability constants of medium strength and planar configuration acted as effective catalysts. Therefore it has to be assumed that for an effective electron transport to the loosely bound oxygen the cysteine molecule has to enter the inner sphere of the complex. The much longer time of luminescence of this reaction (4 -10 min) compared to the short time luminescence caused by free O2H. OH and H2O2 indicates that these intermediates are stabilized by binding to the Cu (II) -complex as in compounds (I), (II) and (III) of oxidizing enzymes.
Um den Mechanismus der Reaktion des Cysteins mit molekularem Sauerstoff in Gegenwart von Komplexen des zweiwertigen Kupfers als Katalysatoren zu ermitteln, wurden Messungen der Chemilumineszenz, der Sauerstoff- und der Cysteinkonzentration in Abhängigkeit von der Zeit vorgenommen. Variation der Konzentration der Reaktionsteilnehmer führte zu Meßergebnissen, die die Aufstellung eines Reaktionsschemas gestattete. Das hieraus abzuleitende System nichtlinearer Differentialgleichungen für die Reaktionsgeschwindigkeiten wurde in einem Analogrechner gelöst, wobei Übereinstimmung zwischen Rechnung und Meßergebnissen sowohl für die Zeitabhängigkeit als auch für die Konzentrationsabhängigkeit gefunden wurde.
The carcinogenic hydrocarbon 3.4-benzopyrene is soluble in aqueous solutions of different proteins. The solubilities are easily determined by the fluorimetric method. The fluorescence o. the hydrocarbon in the protein solutions is not quenched by molecular oxygen. Nevertheless only in presence of air (oxygen) an irreversible decrease of the fluorescence intensity occurs under irradiation with UV-light of wavelength 366 mμ, which is considerably faster than under nitrogen or in solutions of the hydrocarbon in ethanol or aqueous caffeine.
In the systems investigad, a correlation was found between the half-life period of the reaction and the SH-group activities. The participation of protein-SH-Groups in the 3.4-benzopyrene photoreaction is demonstrated by ampèrometric Ag⊕-titrations.
The influence of protein denaturation and inhibiting additives on the photoreaction are investigated by the fluorimetric method.
Irradiation- and oxygen-dependence of the reaction are analogous to the observations of photodynamic action and skin cancer induction by 3.4-benzopyrene.
By 366 mµ irradiation of β-lactoglobuline solutions containing 3.4-benzopyrene the heatdenaturation characteristics of the protein are changed. The same changes are produced without 3.4-benzopyrene by UV-light of the wavelength 280 mµ. Treatment of the β-lactoglobuline solutions with an amount of cigarette smoke, which certainly does not contain 3.4-benzopyrene in sufficient concentration, acts in the same direction.
Along with the changes in the protein properties the typical fluorescence of 3.4-benzopyrene vanishes. The hydrocarbon does not act as a catalyst in photodynamic action, but is chemically altered as well as the protein, at least in the system under investigation.
Interactions of eosin with three different substrates, β-lactoglobuline, bovine serum albumin and cysteine, in aqueous solutions of pH 7 under illumination with light of wavelengths 5200—5400 Å are investigated by changes in absorption spectrum characteristics, SH-group activities and phosphorescence intensities.
Only with bovine serum albumin the major part of protein conversion, as shown by spectral changes and diminution of SH-groups due to eosin-sensitized photo-oxidation. In β-lactoglobuline an oxidizing photoreaction occurs, by which eosin is vanishing to the same degree as the protein shows loss of SH-groups and spectral alterations indicating attack on aromatic amino acid residues. There is no red shift of the eosin absorption band at 5170 Å as is observed in solutions of bovine serum albumin, where the intensity of phosphorscence is about 100 fold compared with the intensity obtained by solutions of β-lactoglobulin.
The aerobic eosin photoreaction in solutions of β-lactoglobulin is faster than aerobic photobleaching of the dye. Still faster is its bleaching photoreaction with cysteine, which is nearly independent of oxygen.