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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 437, Issue -, Pages 135-140Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20110443
Keywords
ATP-sensitive regulator; ATP sensor; inhibitor; regulation; uncoupling
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- [18074002]
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ATP binding to the a subunit of F-1-ATPase, a soluble subcomplex of TF0F1 (F0F1-ATPase synthase from the thermophilic Bacillus strain PS3), affects the regulation of F-1-ATPase activity by stabilizing the compact, ATPase-active, form of the epsilon subunit [Kato, S., Yoshida, M. and Kato-Yamada, Y. (2007) J. Biol. Chem. 282, 37618-37623]. In the present study, we report how ATP binding to the epsilon subunit affects ATPase and H+ pumping activities in the holoenzyme TF0F1. Wild-type TF0F1, showed significant H+ pumping activity when ATP was used as the substrate. However, GTP, which bound poorly to the epsilon subunit, did not support efficient H+ pumping. Addition of small amounts of ATP to the GTP substrate restored coupling between GTPase and H+ pumping activities. Similar uncoupling was observed when TF0F1, contained an ATP-binding-deficient epsilon subunit, even with ATP as a substrate. Further analysis suggested that the compact conformation of the a subunit induced by ATP binding was required to couple ATPase and H+ pumping activities in TF0F1 unless the epsilon subunit was in its extended-state conformation. The present study reveals a novel role of the epsilon subunit as an ATPsensitive regulator of the coupling of ATPase and H+ pumping activities of TF0F1.
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