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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 98, 期 12, 页码 6560-6564出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.111128098
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL24526] Funding Source: Medline
The F1F0 ATP synthase is the smallest motor enzyme known. Previous studies had established that the central stalk, made of the gamma and epsilon subunits in the F-1 part and c subunit ring in the F-0 part, rotates relative to a stator composed of alpha (3)beta (3)delta ab(2) during ATP hydrolysis and synthesis. How this rotation is regulated has been less clear. Here, we show that the epsilon subunit plays a key role by acting as a switch of this motor. Two different arrangements of the E subunit have been visualized recently. The first has been observed in beef heart mitochondrial F-1-ATPase where the C-terminal portion is arranged as a two-alpha -helix hairpin structure that extends away from the alpha (3)beta (3) region, and toward the position of the c subunit ring in the intact F1F0. The second arrangement was observed in a structure determination of a complex of the gamma and E subunits of the Escherichia coli F-1-ATPase. In this, the two C-terminal helices are apart and extend along the gamma to interact with the a and P subunits in the intact complex. We have been able to trap these two arrangements by cross-linking after introducing appropriate Cys residues in E. coli F1F0. confirming that both conformations of the epsilon subunit exist in the enzyme complex. With the C-terminal domain of epsilon toward the F-0, ATP hydrolysis is activated, but the enzyme is fully coupled in both ATP hydrolysis and synthesis. With the C-terminal domain toward the F-1 part, ATP hydrolysis is inhibited and yet the enzyme is fully functional in ATP synthesis; i.e., it works in one direction only. These results help explain the inhibitory action of the epsilon subunit in the F1F0 complex and argue for a ratchet function of this subunit.
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