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The orientation of membrane vesicles prepared fromEscherichia coli by either French press, sonication or ethylenediamine tetraacetate (EDTA)-lysozyme was examined. The following procedures were used to determine orientation: (1) accessibility of the impermeable ferricyanide ion to the respiratory chain; (2) inhibition of membranal ATPase by specific antiserum; (3) binding of ATPase to the membrane. Data with spheroplasts indicated that ATPase, ATPase binding sites and ferricyanide reductase activities were localized on the inner part of the cytoplasmic membrane. Thus, there was no demonstrable NADH-ferricyanide reductase activity, low ATPase activity, no inhibition of ATPase by antiserum and no binding of purified ATPase by spheroplasts. In the case of membrane vesicles prepared by French press or sonication, the ATPase activity, the ATPase binding site and the site where ferricyanide takes electrons from the respiratory chain all appeared to be on the outside of the vesicles, suggesting that they are inverted. In the case of EDTA-lysozyme vesicles, which are widely used for transport studies, about half of the ATPase binding sites and ferricyanide reactive sites were exposed to the outside. Sixty percent of the ATPase activity was sensitive to antiserum. The two most probable explanations for these data are: (1) partial inversion of EDTA-lysozyme vesicles in the course of preparation; (2) movement of marker enzymes within the membrane vesicles during their isolation.
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Futai, M. Orientation of membrane vesicles fromEscherichia coli prepared by different procedures. J. Membrain Biol. 15, 15–28 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01870079
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