Generation of a proton motive force by the anaerobic oxalate-degrading bacterium Oxalobacter formigenes.
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Kuhner, C H
RESUMO
The generation of transmembrane ion gradients by Oxalobacter formigenes cells metabolizing oxalate was studied. The magnitudes of both the transmembrane electrical potential (delta psi) and the pH gradient (internal alkaline) decreased with increasing external pH; quantitatively, the delta psi was the most important component of the proton motive force. As the extracellular pH of metabolizing cells was increased, intracellular pH increased and remained alkaline relative to the external pH, indicating that O. formigenes possesses a limited capacity to regulate internal pH. The generation of a delta psi by concentrated suspensions of O. formigenes cells was inhibited by the K+ ionophore valinomycin and the protonophore carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone, but not by the Na+ ionophore monensin. The H+ ATPase inhibitor N,N'-dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide inhibited oxalate catabolism but did not dissipate the delta psi. The results support the concept that energy from oxalate metabolism by O. formigenes is conserved not as a sodium ion gradient but rather, at least partially, as a transmembrane hydrogen ion gradient produced during the electrogenic exchange of substrate (oxalate) and product (formate) and from internal proton consumption during oxalate decarboxylation.
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