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EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 25, Issue 19, Pages 4596-4604Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601348
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ATP synthase; ADP inhibition; CF1; rotation; epsilon inhibition
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The chloroplast-type F-1 ATPase is the key enzyme of energy conversion in chloroplasts, and is regulated by the endogenous inhibitor epsilon, tightly bound ADP, the membrane potential and the redox state of the gamma subunit. In order to understand the molecular mechanism of e inhibition,epsilon we constructed an expression system for the alpha(3)beta(3)gamma subcomplex in thermophilic cyanobacteria allowing thorough investigation of epsilon inhibition. epsilon Inhibition was found to be ATP-independent, and different to that observed for bacterial F-1-ATPase. The role of the additional region on the gamma subunit of chloroplast-type F-1-ATPase in epsilon inhibition was also determined. By single molecule rotation analysis, we succeeded in assigning the pausing angular position of gamma in epsilon inhibition, which was found to be identical to that observed for ATP hydrolysis, product release and ADP inhibition, but distinctly different from the waiting position for ATP binding. These results suggest that the epsilon subunit of chloroplast-type ATP synthase plays an important regulator for the rotary motor enzyme, thus preventing wasteful ATP hydrolysis.
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