The herbicide nitrofen was shown to act as an energy transfer inhibitor. The results proved nitrofen to act by inhibiting nucleotide exchange on the chloroplast coupling factor. A strong correlation was found between the inhibition of phosphorylation, ATPase activity, and nucleotide exchange. These results are discussed in terms of a regulatory effect of tightly bound ADP on the enzymatic activity of the chloroplast coupling factor.
Received: 1982-4-30
Revised: 1982-6-8
Published Online: 2014-6-2
Published in Print: 1982-9-1
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