Db. Hicks et al., RECONSTITUTION OF ENERGY-LINKED ACTIVITIES OF THE SOLUBILIZED F1F0 ATP SYNTHASE FROM BACILLUS-SUBTILIS, Journal of bacteriology, 176(13), 1994, pp. 4192-4195
The F1F0 ATP synthases from wild-type Bacillus subtilis and an uncoupl
er-resistant mutant have comparable subunit structures. In accord with
an earlier hypothesis, ATP hydrolysis and ATP-P-1 exchange by the two
synthases were equally stimulated and inhibited by protonophores, res
pectively, when reconstituted alone in either wild-type or mutant lipi
ds.