Flagellar Adenosine Triphosphatase from Sea Urchin Sperm: Properties and Relation to Motility
J. R. Claybrook 1 and
Leonard Nelson 2
1 Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana
2 Department of Physiology, Medical College of Ohio at Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, and Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Adenosine triphosphatase activated by divalent cations is apparently a component of the motile apparatus in flagella of Arbacia sperm, as judged by the activity of this enzyme in intact flagella, glycerol-extracted flagella, and soluble extracts prepared from flagella. However, the variation in the physical properties and in the amount of enzyme obtained after a variety of treatments suggests that additional components are involved in the motile mechanism. These features distinguish the soluble flagellar enzyme from adenosine triphosphatases of other motile cells.
