The energy-linked transhydrogenase reaction in respiratory mutants of Escherichia coli K12.
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ABSTRACT: 1. Energy-linked and non-energy-linked transhydrogenase activities were assayed in membrane preparations from normal Escherichia coli K 12 and from various mutant strains. 2. The energy-linked transhydrogenase, which uses ATP as energy source, was dependent for activity on the presence of a functional Mg(2+)+Ca(2+)-stimulated adenosine triphosphatase. 3. Neither of the quinones formed by E. coli, namely ubiquinone-8 and menaquinone-8, was required for normal ATP-dependent energy-linked transhydrogenase activity. 4. The energy-linked transhydrogenase was inhibited by piericidin A at a site unrelated to the sites of inhibition of the electron-transport chain by piericidin A.
SUBMITTER: Cox GB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1178083 | biostudies-other | 1971 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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