Abbreviations
- ETP:
-
electron transport coupled phosphorylation
- MK:
-
menaquinone
- MKH2 :
-
menaquinol
- Em :
-
midpoint potential
- E′0 :
-
standard redox potential at pH 7
- ΔE′0 :
-
difference of standard redox potentials at pH 7
- ΔG:
-
free energy of a chemical reaction
- ΔG′0 :
-
standard free energy at pH 7
- ΔGPhos :
-
phosphorylation potential at pH 7
- \(\Delta \tilde \mu _H\) :
-
electrochemical proton potential across a membrane
- ATP/e:
-
ATP gain per electron in ETP
- H+/ATP:
-
amount of protons translocated across the membrane per ATP synthesized
- H+/e:
-
amount of protons translocated across the membrane per electron transported
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Dedicated to Professor Dr. R. W. Kaplan on the occasion of his 80th birthday
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Kröger, A., Geisler, V., Lemma, E. et al. Bacterial fumarate respiration. Arch. Microbiol. 158, 311–314 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00245358
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