10N‐Nonyl acridine orange interacts with cardiolipin and allows the quantification of this phospholipid in isolated mitochondria
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 209 (1), 267-273
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17285.x
Abstract
The acridine orange derivative, 10N-nonyl acridine orange, is an appropriate marker of the inner mitochondrial membrane in whole cells. We use membrane model systems to demonstrate that 10N-nonyl acridine orange binds to negatively charged phospholipids (cardiolipin, phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylserine). The stoichiometry has been found to be 2 mol 10N-nonyl acridine orange/mol cardiolipin and 1 mol dye/mol phosphatidylserine or phosphatidylinositol, while, with zwitterionic phospholipids, significant binding could not be detected. The affinity constants were 2 x 10(6) M-1 for cardiolipin-10N-nonyl-acridine-orange association and only 7 x 10(4) M-1 for that of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylinositol association. The high affinity of the dye for cardiolipin may be explained by two essential interactions; firstly an electrostatic interaction between the quaternary ammonium of nonyl acridine orange and the ionized phosphate residues of cardiolipin and secondly, hydrophobic interactions between adjacent chromophores. A linear relationship was demonstrated between the cardiolipin content of model membranes and the incorporated dye. Consequently, a convenient and rapid method for cardiolipin quantification in membranes was established and applied to the cardiolipin-containing organelle, the mitochondrion.Keywords
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