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SUBMITTER: Krah A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6129141 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krah Alexander A Bond Peter J PJ
PeerJ 20180905
The ε subunit from ATP synthases acts as an ATP sensor in the bacterial cell to prevent ATP hydrolysis and thus the waste of ATP under conditions of low ATP concentration. However, the ATP binding affinities from various bacterial organisms differ markedly, over several orders of magnitude. For example, the ATP synthases from thermophilic <i>Bacillus</i> PS3 and <i>Escherichia coli</i> exhibit affinities of 4 µM and 22 mM, respectively. The recently reported R103A/R115A double mutant of <i>Bacil ...[more]