Impact of Antioxidants on Cardiolipin Oxidation in Liposomes: Why Mitochondrial Cardiolipin Serves as an Apoptotic Signal?

Figure 4

Spectra of oxidized (black line) and reduced (red line) forms of (a) decPQ, (b) decUQ, and (c) HPMC (see text). The spectra were normalized to 1 μM of the substance to assess the impact of oxidation of these compounds into total absorbance changes during the experiment. All the three redox pairs have isosbestic points at 230–240 nm suggesting a minimal interference with the robust signal of conjugated dienes. The ubiquinone/ubiquinol pair also has an “oxidized minus reduced” difference absorption maximum at ~275 nm, which does not strongly overlap with the spectrum of conjugated dienes.

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