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. 1981 Jun;146(3):907–913. doi: 10.1128/jb.146.3.907-913.1981

Respiration-associated components of Mollicutes.

J D Pollack, A J Merola, M Platz, R L Booth Jr
PMCID: PMC216943  PMID: 7240087

Abstract

No cytochrome pigments were detected by difference (reduced minus oxidized) spectroscopy at liquid nitrogen temperature in whole-cell preparations or membrane fractions of Acholeplasma axanthum S273, Acholeplasma equifetale N93, Acholeplasma granularum BTS39, Acholeplasma laidlawii B-PG9, Acholeplasma modicum PG-49, Acholeplasma oculi 19L, Mycoplasma arginini G230, Mycoplasma arthritidis 07, Mycoplasma pneumoniae FH, and Mycoplasma pulmonis JB. All ten Mollicutes species examined contained iron of unknown function (3.0 to 15.3 nmol of iron per mg of protein). Relatively small amounts of acid-labile sulfide were found in all fractions (0.10 to 1.07 nmol of acid-labile sulfide per mg of protein). The data suggest that, as Mollicutes lack cytochrome pigments, they would synthesize most if not all adenosine triphosphate at the substrate level.

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