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. 1994 Mar;176(5):1303–1308. doi: 10.1128/jb.176.5.1303-1308.1994

Electrogenic glutamine uptake by Peptostreptococcus anaerobius and generation of a transmembrane potential.

B J Beck 1, J B Russell 1
PMCID: PMC205193  PMID: 8113169

Abstract

Peptostreptococcus anaerobius converted glutamine stoichiometrically to ammonia and pyroglutamic acid, and the Eadie-Hofstee plot of glutamine transport was biphasic. High-affinity, sodium-dependent glutamine transport (affinity constant [Kt] of 1.5 microM) could be driven by the chemical gradient of sodium, and more than 20 mM sodium was required for half-maximal velocity. High-affinity glutamine transport was not stimulated or inhibited by a membrane potential (delta psi). Low-affinity glutamine transport had a rate which was directly proportional to the external glutamine concentration, required less than 100 microM sodium, and was inhibited strongly by a delta psi. Cells which were treated with N,N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide to inhibit the F1F0 ATPase still generated a delta psi but did so only if the external glutamine concentration was greater than 15 mM. Low-affinity glutamine uptake could not be saturated by as much as 200 mM glutamine, but glutamine-1 accounts for only a small fraction of the total glutamine at physiological pH values (pH 6 to 7). On the basis of these results, it appeared that the low-affinity glutamine transport was an electrogenic mechanism which was converting a chemical gradient of glutamine-1 into a delta psi. Other mechanisms of delta psi generation (electrogenic glutamine-pyroglutamate or -ammonium exchange) could not be demonstrated.

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