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Acetaldehyde-dependent chemiluminescence has been found to be a sensitive technique for the study of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide formation in beef heart mitochondria. The system responds to ATP and antimycin A with increased emission intensities and to ADP and rotenone with decreased intensities, indicating that the chemiluminescence reflects the energy status of the mitochondrion. These effects are based on the ability of acetaldehyde to react with superoxide and hydrogen peroxide to form metastable intermediates which decay spontaneously with the emission of light. Additionally, these intermediates can react with cyanide to give alternative products which can also decay with the emission of light, the cyanide-evokable chemiluminescence. The interaction of acetaldehyde with mitochondria is complex because acetaldehyde can serve as a hydrogen source for NADH and as an inhibitor (at high concentration) of electron transport, and appears to be a reducing agent for a heat-stable site that autoxidatively generates HOOH from O2 −·. Inasmuch as acetaldehyde is a metabolite of ethanol, this broad spectrum of reactivity may play a role in the hepatic and cardiac toxicity that is associated with alcoholism. The heat-stable site that generates HOOH from O2 −· has been studied further and appears to contain vicinal dithiol which is primarily responsible for the cyanide-evokable chemiluminescence.
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The work reported in this paper was carried out by Erin E. Boh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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Boh, E.E., Baricos, W.H., Bernofsky, C. et al. Mitochondrial chemiluminescence elicited by acetaldehyde. J Bioenerg Biomembr 14, 115–133 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00745024
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