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Respiratory-driven Na+ electrical potential in the bacterium Vitreoscilla

B J Efiok1, D A Webster

  • 1Department of Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 60616.

Biochemistry
|May 15, 1990
PubMed
Summary

Vitreoscilla bacteria generate a transmembrane electrical gradient (delta psi) using sodium ions (Na+). This study suggests a direct, respiratory-driven sodium pump, not an ATPase or antiporter, is responsible for this unique energy coupling.

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