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  • Title: Light-induced pH changes in sub-bacterial particles of Halobacterium halobium. Effects of ionophores.
    Author: Garty H, Eisenbach M, Shuldman R, Caplan SR.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1979 Feb 08; 545(2):365-75. PubMed ID: 83878.
    Abstract:
    The kinetics of light-induced acidification and of the subsequent dark-induced alkalization in suspensions of sub-bacterial particles of Halobacterium halobium may be expressed as the sum of two exponentials, indicating two processes (Eisenbach, M., Bakker, E.P., Korenstein, R. and Caplan, S.R. (1976) FEBS Lett. 71, 228--232). We studied the effects of carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethyoxy phenyl-hydrazone, nigericin, gramicidin D, valinomycin, and monactin on the extents and the rate constants of the two processes. The various ionophores affected the two processes differently and in general the slower process was more sensitive to their presence. Valinomycin and monactin had relatively minor effects, apparently due to the high ionic strength of the suspension. When an artificial membrane potential was created in the dark, the light-induced acidification was preceded by a transient alkalization as is usually observed in intact cells. These results are discussed in the light of a suggested model accounting for the two processes (Caplan, S.R., Eisenbach, M., Cooper, S., Garty, H., Klemperer, G. and Bakker, E.P. (1977) in Bioenergetics of Membranes (Packer, L., Papageorgiou, G.C. and Trebst, A., eds.), pp. 101--114, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, Amsterdam), taking into account the different selectivities of the ionophores applied.
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