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Disequilibrium between chloroplast proton motive force and ATP levels in Arabidopsis

Degen, G. E.; Schwarzlander, M.; Johnson, M. P.

2025-11-12 plant biology
10.1101/2025.11.12.687978 bioRxiv
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Current dogma holds that CO2 fixation by photosynthesis requires additional ATP production via PGR5-dependent cyclic electron transfer (PGR5-CET) to augment the NADPH and ATP produced by linear electron transfer (LET). Here we use the MgATP2- fluorescent biosensor ATeam1.03-nD/nA and find that while proton motive force (pmf) in the Arabidopsis pgr5CAS mutant is only 50-75% of that of the wild-type, MgATP2- levels are unchanged. These data demonstrate that disequilibrium exists between pmf and MgATP2- concentration in vivo, indicating that PGR5-CET is not required for ATP augmentation.

Published in Nature Plants (predicted rank #1) · training set

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