An H-ATPase Assay: Proton Pumping and ATPase Activity Determined Simultaneously in the Same Sample
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Measuring In Vitro ATPase Activity for Enzymatic Characterization
Published on: August 23, 2016
1Department of Plant Biochemistry, University of Lund, P.O. Box 7007, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden.
Abstract:
A continuous spectrophotometric assay of H(+)-ATPase activity was developed by combining two well-known methods for measuring proton pumping and ATPase activity. Proton uptake into plasma membrane vesicles from Avena sativa L. (cv Rhiannon) was monitored as the absorbance decrease at 495 nm of the DeltapH probe acridine orange. Simultaneously, ATPase activity was measured by following the absorbance decrease at 340 nanometers by coupling ATP hydrolysis enzymatically to the oxidation of NADH. This H(+)-ATPase assay is convenient for determining the relative relationship between ATP hydrolysis and proton pumping.
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