Estimation of the cytoplasmic pH of Coxiella burnetii and effect of substrate oxidation on proton motive force.
AUTOR(ES)
Hackstadt, T
RESUMO
The magnitude of the proton motive force generated during in vitro substrate oxidation by Coxiella burnetii was examined. The intracellular pH of C. burnetii varied from about 5.1 to 6.95 in resting cells over an extracellular pH range of 2 to 7. Similarly, delta psi varied from about 15 mV to -58 mV over approximately the same range of extracellular pH. Both components of the proton motive force increased during substrate oxidation, resulting in an increase in proton motive force from about -92 mV in resting cells to -153 mV in cells metabolizing glutamate at pH 4.2. The respiration-dependent increase in proton motive force was blocked by respiratory inhibitors, but the delta pH was not abolished even by the addition of proton ionophores such as carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenyl hydrazone or 2,4-dinitrophenol. Because of this apparently passive component of delta pH maintenance, the largest proton motive force was obtained at an extracellular pH too low to permit respiration. C. burnetii appears, therefore, to behave in many respects like other acidophilic bacteria. Such responses are proposed to contribute to the extreme resistance of C. burnetii to environmental conditions and subsequent activation upon entry into the phagolysosome of eucaryotic cells in which this organism multiplies.
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