Dual inhibitory effects of the peptide antibiotics leucinostatins on oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria.

The effects of the hydrophobic peptide antibiotics leucinostatins A and B, originally isolated by Arai, T., Y. Mikami, K. Fukushima, T. Utsumi, and K. Yazawa. (J. Antibiotics (1973) 26: 157-161), on the functions of rat liver mitochondria were examined. At a concentration of 240 nM, these compounds completely inhibited state 3 respiration and ATPase activity that was stimulated by weakly acidic uncouplers. However, at higher concentrations, they induced uncoupling, probably by their protonophoric action. The uncoupling action was potentiated by known phosphoryl transfer inhibitors such as venturicidin, DCCD and oligomycin. The binding site of leucinostatins at lower concentrations was suggested to be located at, or very close to that of venturicidin. The potencies of the two analogues of leucinostatin were almost the same for all their actions. Their effects were very similar to those of the peptide antibiotics A20668's, which have been used as leucinostatins without any chemical and biological confirmation that they are in fact leucinostatins. Thus, the chemical structures of leucinostatins are thought to be analogues to those of the A20668's.

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