The transmembrane electrical potential (deltaphi), the proton flux (H+), the rate of electron transport (e), the pH gradient (deltapH) and the rate of phosphorylation (ATP) were measured in chloroplasts of spinach. Photosynthesis was excited periodically with flashes of variable frequencies and intensities. A new method is described for determining the rate of electron transport and proton flux. Under conditions where the rate of electron transport and proton flux are not pH controlled the following correlations were found in the range 50 mV less than or equal to deltaphi less than or equal to 125 mV and 1.8 less than or equal to deltapH less than or equal to 2.7: (1) The pH gradient, deltapH, increases with H+ independently of Phout between 7-9. (2) The rate of phosphorylation, ATP, depends exponentially on deltapH (at constant deltaphi) and is independent of pHout between 7-9. (3) The rate of phosphorylation, ATP, depends also on deltaphi (at constant deltapH and at constant proton flux H+). (4) The proton flux via the ATPase pathway, Hp+, depends non-linearly on the ratio of the proton concentrations: Hp+ approximately (Hin+/Hout+)b, (b=2.3--2.6). The proton flux via the basal pathway, Hb+, depends linearly on the ratio of the proton concentrations: Hb+ approximately (Hin/Hout). (5) The ratio deltaH+/ATP (e/ATP, i.e. the ratio of the total proton flux, Hp+ + Hb+, and the rate of ATP formation, ATP, depends strongly on deltaphi and on deltapH. The ratio is deltaH+/ATP approximately 3 (e/ATP approximately 1.5) at deltapH 2.7 and deltaphi = 125 mV. (6) It is supposed that the reason for the dependence of deltaH+/ATP on deltaphi anddeltapH is the different functional dependence of the basal proton flux Hb+ and the phosphorylating proton flux Hp+ on deltapH and deltaphi. The calculation of deltaH+/ATP on the basis of this assumption is in fair agreement with the experimental values. Also the "threshold" effects can be explained in this way. (7) The ratio of deltaHp+/ATP, i.e. the ratio of the phosphorylating proton flux Hp+ and ATP, is deltaHp+/ATP APPROXIMATELY 2.4.
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