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. 1969 May;112(5):647–656. doi: 10.1042/bj1120647

Control of respiration and metabolism in growing Klebsiella aerogenes. The role of adenine nucleotides

D E F Harrison 1,*, P K Maitra 1,†
PMCID: PMC1187768  PMID: 4309671

Abstract

1. A rapid-sampling technique was used to obtain perchloric acid extracts of cells growing in a chemostat culture, so that meaningful values for ATP content could be obtained in spite of the fact that the turnover time for the total ATP content was about 1sec. 2. For steady-state growth, it was found that, in a glucose-limited chemostat culture, the ATP/ADP concentration ratio was approximately constant with changes in dissolved-oxygen tensions above the critical value, but fell when the culture was grown under oxygen-limited conditions and was at a minimum in anaerobically grown cultures. The steady-state ATP content was lower in cells growing under nitrogen-limited conditions with glucose in excess than in glucose-limited cells. The steady-state ATP content was independent of growth rate at growth rates over 0·1hr.−1. 3. When the respiration rate of the cells was stimulated by lowering the oxygen tension the ATP content did not increase, indicating either an increased turnover rate of ATP or a fall in the P/O ratio. The sudden addition of extra glucose or succinate to a glucose-limited culture increased the respiration rate of the cells, but the ATP content quickly returned to the steady-state value after initial perturbations. This control over ATP content is explained in terms of regulation by adenine nucleotides of the catabolism and anabolism of glucose. An exception to this control over ATP content was found when the respiration rate was stimulated by addition of an antifoam.

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