Abstract
Membrane preparation from the bacteriochlorophyll-containing cells of a facultative methylotroph, Protaminobacter ruber strain NR-1, contained reaction center bacteriochlorophyll similar to those in many species of purple bacteria and contained a few cytochrome species. α-Peak of the reduced-minus-oxidized difference spectrum of one of the cytochromes was at 554 nm. The midpoint potential of the cytochrome at pH 7 (Em7) was 350 mV. Two other cytochromes had the same reduced-minus-oxidized difference spectra with a split α-band at 557 and 566 nm, but had two different Em7s' of 130 mV and 0 mV.
On flash or continuous light the reaction center bacteriochlorophyll and the cytochrome with α-peak at 554 nm were reversibly oxidized. Redox titration of the light-induced cytochrome oxidation gave an Em7 value of 356 mV. Under continuous illumination the membrane preparation reversibly took up protons, and formed ATP in the presence of ADP and inorganic phosphate. The ATP formation activity on the bacteriochlorophyll basis was one-third to one-fifth that in chromatophores from Rhodospirillum rubrum under similar experimental conditions. These results clearly indicated that the membrane preparation from P. ruber which contained bacteriochlorophyll had a cyclic photosynthetic electron transfer system and coupled ATP formation activity.
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Abbreviations
- Bchl (only in figure legends):
-
bacteriochlorophyll
- CCCP:
-
carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone
- Eh :
-
the ambient redox potential
- Em7 :
-
the midpoint potential at pH 7
- PMS:
-
N-methylphenazonium methosulfate
- MES:
-
morpholinoethanesulfonic acid
- MOPS:
-
morpholinopropanesulfonic acid
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Takamiya, Ki., Okamura, K. Photochemical activities and photosynthetic ATP formation in membrane preparation from a facultative methylotroph, Protaminobacter ruber strain NR-1. Arch. Microbiol. 140, 21–26 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00409766
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