Abstract
The function of the Mg 2+ -requiring KCl-stimulated ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) of higher plants in active ion transport was investigated by using a purified microsomal fraction containing sealed plasma membrane vesicles. (Sze, H. (1980) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77, 5904-5908). A transmembrane electrical potential (+30 to +44 mV), monitored by uptake of a permeant anion ( 35 SCN - ), was generated specifically by ATP in purified microsomal vesicles of tobacco callus. ATP-dependent 35 SCN - uptake required Mg 2+ , was optimal at pH 6.75, and showed similar ATP concentration dependence as the Mg 2+ -requiring KCl-stimulated ATPase activity. Plasma membrane ATPase inhibitors ( N,N ′-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and vanadate) inhibited generation of the ATP-dependent electrical potential. A proton conductor (carbonyl cyanide m -chlorophenylhydrazone), but not a K + ionophore (valinomycin), completely collapsed the electrical potential. The results provide in vitro evidence that the Mg 2+ /KCl-ATPase of higher plants is an electrogenic pump. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that an electrogenic H + pump is catalyzed by the plasma membrane ATPase of plants.
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Created | 19 years, 2 months ago (May 31, 2006, 4:49 a.m.) |
Deposited | 3 years, 4 months ago (April 13, 2022, 11:33 a.m.) |
Indexed | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (June 10, 2025, 7:43 p.m.) |
Issued | 43 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1981) |
Published | 43 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1981) |
Published Online | 43 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1981) |
Published Print | 43 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 1, 1981) |
@article{Sze_1981, title={Mg 2+ /KCl-ATPase of plant plasma membranes is an electrogenic pump}, volume={78}, ISSN={1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.78.9.5578}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.78.9.5578}, number={9}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Sze, Heven and Churchill, Kathleen A.}, year={1981}, month=sep, pages={5578–5582} }