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Amino acid transport in the thermophilic anaerobe Clostridium fervidus is driven by an electrochemical sodium gradient.

Department of Microbiology, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands.

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Amino acid transport was studied in membranes of the peptidolytic, thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium Clostridium fervidus. Uptake of the negatively charged amino acid L-glutamate, the neutral amino acid L-serine, and the positively charged amino acid L-arginine was examined in membrane vesicles fused with cytochrome c-containing liposomes. Artificial ion diffusion gradients were also applied to establish the specific driving forces for the individual amino acid transport systems. Each amino acid was driven by the delta psi and delta mu Na+/F and not by the Z delta pH. The Na+ stoichiometry was estimated from the amino acid-dependent 22Na+ efflux and Na(+)-dependent 3H-amino acid efflux. Serine and arginine were symported with 1 Na+ and glutamate with 2 Na+. C. fervidus membranes contain Na+/Na+ exchange activity, but Na+/H+ exchange activity could not be demonstrated.

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