TABLE 3.
Intracellular metabolite concentrations and Gibbs energies of transhydrogenase reactions
| Organism | Concna (μM) of:
|
NAD+/NADP+ ratioa | ΔrG′b (kJ mol−1) for:
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glucose-6P | 6P-gluconate | NADP+ | NAD+ | NADPH | NADH | mTH | sTH | ||
| A. tumefaciens | 522 ± 89 | 57 ± 6 | 203 ± 26 | 475 ± 20 | 138 ± 37 | 224 ± 26 | 2.34 ± 0.32 | −8.01-−32.20 | 0.57-−2.21 |
| S. meliloti | 548 ± 58 | 42 ± 1 | 142 ± 25 | 392 ± 16 | 316 ± 238 | 193 ± 49 | 2.77 ± 0.50 | −3.80-−32.44 | 0.82-−6.42 |
| P. fluorescens | 821 ± 161 | 150 ± 7 | 184 ± 22 | 343 ± 12 | 152 ± 22 | 152 ± 122 | 1.86 ± 0.23 | −3.97-−32.33 | 0.71-−6.25 |
| R. sphaeroides | 553 ± 35 | 86 ± 2 | 82 ± 20 | 447 ± 24 | 33 ± 56 | 180 ± 25 | 5.43 ± 1.73 | −6.60-−41.34 | 9.71-−3.62 |
| P. versutus | 1048 ± 85 | 147 ± 19 | 96 ± 8 | 421 ± 75 | 43 ± 13 | 190 ± 21 | 4.41 ± 0.87 | −8.68-−33.45 | 1.83-−1.54 |
| B. subtilis | 515 ± 117 | 281 ± 10 | 154 ± 9 | 615 ± 44 | 284 ± 89 | 245 ± 64 | 3.98 ± 0.37 | −4.71-−29.68 | −1.94-−5.51 |
| E. coli | 252 ± 46 | 32 ± 3 | 204 ± 7 | 854 ± 59 | 202 ± 55 | 320 ± 69 | 4.18 ± 0.33 | −6.40-−30.78 | −0.84-−3.82 |
Data are means ± standard deviations of results from triplicate experiments.
ΔrG′, estimated range of Gibbs energies of reaction for membrane-bound transhydrogenase (mTH; from NADH toward NADPH with H+ transfer) and soluble transhydrogenase (sTH; from NADPH toward NADH, energy independent).