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. 1986 May;81(1):120–125. doi: 10.1104/pp.81.1.120

Mechanism of Stimulation and Inhibition of Tonoplast H+-ATPase of Beta vulgaris by Chloride and Nitrate 1

Christopher J Griffith 1, Philip A Rea 1,2, Eduardo Blumwald 1, Ronald J Poole 1
PMCID: PMC1075293  PMID: 16664760

Abstract

The H+-ATPase of tonoplast vesicles isolated from red beet (Beta vulgaris L.) storage tissue was studied with respect to the kinetic effects of Cl− and NO3−. N-Ethylmaleimide (NEM) was employed as a probe to investigate substrate binding and gross conformational changes of the enzyme. Chloride decreased the Km of the enzyme for ATP but caused relatively little alteration of the Vmax. Nitrate increased Km only. Michaelis-Menten kinetics applied throughout with respect to ATP concentration. Nitrate yielded similar kinetics of inhibition in both the presence and absence of Cl−. Other monovalent anions that specifically increased the Km of the ATPase for ATP were, in order of increasing Ki, SCN−, ClO4−, and ClO3−. Sulfate, although inhibitory, manifested noncompetitive kinetics with respect to ATP concentration. ADP, like NO3−, was a competitive inhibitor of the ATPase but ADP and NO3− did not interact cooperatively nor did either interfere with the inhibitory action of the other. It is concluded that NO3− does not show competitive kinetics because of its stereochemical similarity to the terminal phosphoryl group of ATP. NEM was an irreversible inhibitor of the tonoplast ATPase. Both Mg·ADP and Mg·ATP protected the enzyme from inactivation by NEM but Mg·ADP was the more potent of the two. Chloride and NO3− exerted little or no effect on the protective actions of Mg·ADP and Mg·ATP suggesting that neither Cl− nor NO3− are involved in substrate binding.

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