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Rotation of the gamma subunit in F1-ATPase; evidence that ATP synthase is a rotary motor enzyme
1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.
Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
ATP-dependent, azide-sensitive rotation of the gamma subunit relative to the alpha3beta3 hexagonal ring of ATP synthase was observed with a single molecule imaging system. Thus, ATP synthase is a rotary motor enzyme, the first ever found.