title: Light-dependent delta mu Na-generation and utilization in the marine cyanobacterium Oscillatoria brevis.
abstract: Light-dependent Na+ and H+ transports, membrane potential (delta psi) and motility have been studied in the cells of the marine cyanobacterium Oscillatoria brevis. In the presence of a protonophorous uncoupler, carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone, the intracellular Na+ level is shown to increase in the dark and decrease in the light. The Na+/H+ antiporter, monensin, stimulates the dark CCCP-dependent [Na+]in increase and abolishes the light-dependent [Na+]in decrease. Na+ ions are necessary for the fast light-induced delta psi generation and H+ uptake by the cells. This uptake is inhibited by monensin being resistant to CCCP. Monensin sensitizes the delta psi level and the motility rate to low CCCP concentrations. The obtained data are consistent with the assumption that O. brevis possesses a primary Na+ pump which utilizes (directly or indirectly) the light energy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Odessa State University, USSR.
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Fadeyev
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Kirik
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Severina
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Skulachev
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002258:Carbonyl Cyanide m-Chlorophenyl Hydrazone / Q000494:pharmacology; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000378:metabolism*; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008027:Light; D008985:Monensin / Q000494:pharmacology; D011522:Protons; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011522:Protons; D002258:Carbonyl Cyanide m-Chlorophenyl Hydrazone; D008985:Monensin; D012964:Sodium