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Metabolism and Enzymology

Carbon Oxysulfide Is an Inhibitor of Both CO₂ and HCO₃^– Uptake in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC7942

Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P. O. Box 475, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

Carbon oxysulfide (COS) was reinvestigated as an inhibitor of active inorganic carbon transport in cells of Synechococcus PCC7942 adapted to growth at low inorganic carbon. COS inhibited both CO₂ and HCO₃^– transport processes in a reversible (in the short term) and mixed competitive manner. The inhibition of COS was established using both silicone oil centrifugation experiments and O₂-evolution studies. The K_i for COS inhibition was 29 micromolar for CO₂ transport and 110 micromolar for HCO₃^– transport. These results support a model of inorganic carbon transport with a central CO₂ pump and an inducible HCO₃^– utilizing accessory protein which supplies CO₂ to the primary pump.

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