An exploration of how the thermodynamic efficiency of bioenergetic membrane systems varies with c-subunit stoichiometry of F1F0 ATP synthases

@article{Silverstein2014AnEO,
  title={An exploration of how the thermodynamic efficiency of bioenergetic membrane systems varies with c-subunit stoichiometry of F1F0 ATP synthases},
  author={Todd P. Silverstein},
  journal={Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes},
  year={2014},
  volume={46},
  pages={229-241}
}
  • T. Silverstein
  • Published 6 April 2014
  • Biology, Chemistry
  • Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes
Recently the F0 portion of the bovine mitochondrial F1F0-ATP synthase was shown to contain eight ‘c’ subunits (n = 8). This surprised many in the field, as previously, the only other mitochondrial F0 (for yeast) was shown to have ten ‘c’ subunits. The metabolic implications of ‘c’ subunit copy number explored in this paper lead to several surprising conclusions: (1) Aerobically respiring E. coli (n = 10) and animal mitochondria (n = 8) both have very high F1F0 thermodynamic efficiencies of ≈90… 
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