PMID: 8443208Mar 1, 1993Paper

The role of arginine in the conserved polar loop of the c-subunit of the Escherichia coli H(+)-ATPase

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
L HatchF Gibson

Abstract

The Arg-41 of the c-subunit of the F0F1-ATPase of Escherichia coli has been changed by site-directed mutagenesis to Glu, Leu or Lys. None of the mutants can carry out oxidative phosphorylation. No detectable F1-ATPase activity is found on the membranes and only small amounts in the cytoplasm. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis shows that in all three mutant strains the assembly of the F0F1-ATPase has been affected. When plasmids carrying the mutant genes, together with other normal unc genes, were inserted into strains each carrying a mutation in one of the unc genes other than uncE their capacity for oxidative phosphorylation was reduced or eliminated, the effect being most pronounced with the uncG and uncC mutants and least pronounced with the plasmid giving the Arg-->Lys substitution. The c-subunit is a multimer in the ATP synthase complex and it appears that a mixture of normal and mutant gene products allows assembly of a functional complex.

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