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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
Volume 1757, Issue 7, Pages 821-828Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.05.034
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ATP; chloroplast; proton motive force; putrescine; internal buffering capacity
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Putrescine is a main polyamine found in animals, plants and microbes, but the molecular mechanism underlying its mode of action is still obscure. In vivo chlorophyll a fluorescence in tobacco leaf discs indicated that putrescine treatment affects the energization of the thylakoid membrane. Molecular dissection of the electron transport chain by biophysical and biochemical means provided new evidence that putrescine can play an important bioenergetic role acting as a cation and as a permeant natural buffer. We demonstrate that putrescine increases chemioismotic ATP synthesis more than 70%. Also a regulation of the energy outcome by small changes in putrescine pool under the same photonic environment (i.e., photosynthetically active radiation) is shown. The proposed molecular mechanism has at least four conserved features: (i) presence of a membrane barrier, (ii) a proton-driven ATPase, (iii) a Delta pH and (iv) a pool of putrescine. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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