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Intracellular and extracellular acetate concentrations of Acetobacterium woodii DSM 1030 were determined during growth or incubation of resting cell suspensions. The internal concentrations during growth decreased from initially 350 mM to 145 mM at the end of the experiment. The intracellular pH was lowered from 7.5 to 6.6 and the ΔpH was enlarged from 0.2 to 0.6 units. Both, growing and resting cells of A. woodii showed no equilibrium between internal and external acetate concentrations during glucose consumption; the internal concentrations were always higher than expected assuming equal concentrations of the free acid inside and outside the cells. From counterflow experiments it is suggested that acetate does not only leave A. woodii cells by passive diffusion but also by carrier-mediated transport.
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Boenigk, R., Dürre, P. & Gottschalk, G. Carrier-mediated acetate transport in Acetobacterium woodii . Arch. Microbiol. 152, 589–593 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425492
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