@article{mbs:/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-98-2-503, author = "Kodama, T. and Taniguchi, S.", title = "Sodium-controlled Coupling of Respiration to Energy-linked Functions in Pseudomonas stutzeri", journal= "Microbiology", year = "1977", volume = "98", number = "2", pages = "503-510", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-98-2-503", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-98-2-503", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2080", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Summary: In the presence of K+, Na+ enhanced respiration and activated cellular motility and transport of K+, amino acids and phosphate in Pseudomonas stutzeri. Inorganic phosphate taken up was rapidly esterified to nucleoside triphosphates and diphosphates. Respiration and phosphate transport showed cooperative responses to Na+ which increased with temperature. Respiration was more sensitive to polymyxin B in the presence of Na+. Dinitrophenol and carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxy-phenylhydrazone stimulated respiration when either Na+ or K+ was absent, but not in the presence of both cations. Therefore, Na+ is essential for the cytoplasmic membrane of P. stutzeri to perform energy-linked functions coupled to respiration.", }