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Generation of a membrane potential by Lactococcus lactis through aerobic electron transport.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2007
Brooijmans R J W, Poolman B, Schuurman-Wolters G K, de Vos W M, Hugenholtz J
Abstract excerpt
Lactococcus lactis, a facultative anaerobic lactic acid bacterium, is known to have an increased growth yield when grown aerobically in the presence of heme. We have now established the presence of a functional, proton motive force-generating electron transfer chain (ETC) in L. lactis under these conditions. Proton motive force generation in whole cells was measured using a fluorescent probe...
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