The high‐affinity K+‐translocating ATPase complex from Bacillus acidocaldarius consists of three subunits
- 31 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 3 (4), 487-495
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.1989.tb00195.x
Abstract
Cells of the thermoacidophilic bacterium Bacillus acidocaldarius express a high-affinity K+-uptake system when grown at low external K+. A vanadate-sensitive, K+- and Mg2+-stimulated ATPase was partially purified from membranes of these cells by solubilization with a non-ionic detergent followed by ion-exchange chromatography of the extract. Combinations of non-denaturing and denaturing electrophoretic separation methods revealed that the ATPase complex consisted of three subunits with molecular weights almost identical to those of the KdpA, B and C proteins, which together form the Kdp high-affinity, K+-translocating ATPase complex of Escherichia coli. The affinity of the partially purified ATPase from B. acidocaldarius for its substrates K+ (Km 2-3 .mu.M) and ATP (Km 80 .mu.M), its stimulation by various divalent cations, and its inhibition by vanadate (Ki 1-2 .mu.M), bafilomycin A1 (Ki 20 .mu.M), DCCD (Ki 200 .mu.M) or Ca2+ were also similar to those of the E. coli. enzyme, indicating that the two K+-translocating ATPases have almost identical properties.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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