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  • Title: Formate and potassium ions affect Escherichia coli proton ATPase activity at low pH during mixed carbon fermentation.
    Author: Gevorgyan H, Trchounian A, Trchounian K.
    Journal: IUBMB Life; 2020 May; 72(5):915-921. PubMed ID: 31856407.
    Abstract:
    Escherichia coli is able to ferment not only single but also mixtures of carbon sources. The formate metabolism and effect of formate on various enzymes have been extensively studied during sole glucose but not mixed carbon sources utilization. It was revealed that in membrane vesicles (MV) of wild type cells grown at pH 7.5 during fermentation of the mixture of glucose (2 g/L), glycerol (10 g/L), and formate (0.68 g/L), in the assays, the addition of formate (10 mM) increased the N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD)-inhibited ATPase activity on ~30% but no effect of potassium ions (100 mM) had been detected. In selC (coding formate dehydrogenases) and fdhF (coding formate dehydrogenase H) single mutants, formate increased DCCD-inhibited ATPase activity on ~40 and ~70%, respectively. At pH 5.5, in wild type cells MV, formate decreased the DCCD-inhibited ATPase activity ~60% but unexpectedly in the presence of potassium ions, it was stimulated ~5.8 fold. The accessible SH or thiol groups number in fdhF mutant was less by 28% compared with wild type. In formate assays, the available SH groups number was less ~10% in wild type but not in fdhF mutant. Taken together, the data suggest that proton ATPase activity depends on externally added formate in the presence of potassium ions at low pH. This effect might be regulated by the changes in the number of redox-active thiol groups via formate dehydrogenase H, which might be directly related to proton ATPase FO subunit.
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