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  • Title: Effect of nucleotides on potential and pH changes across the thylakoid membrane of spinach chloroplasts.
    Author: Girault G, Galmiche JM.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1978 Jun 08; 502(3):430-44. PubMed ID: 26394.
    Abstract:
    With appropriate preparations of spinish chloroplasts we observe three distinct effects of the nucleotides: 1. An accelaration of the dark decay of the light induced 520 nm absorbance change after ATP addition. 2. An acidification of the internal space of the thylakoids after ATP addition in darkness. 3. A dark ATPase activity which is regulated by the deltapH across the membrane. We conclude that the effect of the nucleoside triphosphates on the 520 nm signal is linked to a change of the proton conductivity of the membrane, induced by the formation of a deltapH across the membrane in consequence of the dark ATPase activity. The mode of action of the nucleoside diphosphates in the presence of inorganic phosphate on the 520 nm signal is discussed. It is proposed that the effects observed are linked to the hydrolysis of the newly formed nucleoside triphosphates.
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