Nitrite reduction in barley-root plastids: Dependence on NADPH coupled with glucose-6-phosphate and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenases,and possible involvement of an electron carrier and a diaphorase |
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Authors: | Y Oji M Watanabe N Wakiuchi S Okamoto |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University, Rokkodai-cho 1, Nada-ku, 657 Kobe, Japan |
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Abstract: | Plastids from roots of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seedlings were isolated by discontinuous Percoll-gradient centrifugation. Coinciding with the peak of nitrite reductase (NiR; EC 1.7.7.1, a marker enzyme for plastids) in the gradients was a peak of a glucose-6-phosphate (Glc6P) and NADP+-linked nitrite-reductase system. High activities of phosphohexose isomerase (EC 5.3.1.9) and phosphoglucomutase (EC 2.7.5.1) as well as glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (Glc6PDH; EC 1.1.1.49) and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGDH; EC 1.1.1.44) were also present in the isolated plastids. Thus, the plastids contained an overall electron-transport system from NADPH coupled with Glc6PDH and 6PGDH to nitrite, from which ammonium is formed stoichiometrically. However, NADPH alone did not serve as an electron donor for nitrite reduction, although NADPH with Glc6P added was effective. Benzyl and methyl viologens were enzymatically reduced by plastid extract in the presence of Glc6P+ NADP+. When the plastids were incubated with dithionite, nitrite reduction took place, and ammonium was formed stoichiometrically. The results indicate that both an electron carrier and a diaphorase having ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase activity are involved in the electron-transport system of root plastids from NADPH, coupled with Glc6PDH and 6PGDH, to nitrite.Abbreviations Cyt
cytochrome
- Glc6P
glucose-6-phosphate
- Glc6PDH
glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
- MVH
reduced methyl viologen
- NiR
nitrite reductase
- 6PG
6-phosphogluconate
- 6PGDH
6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase |
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Keywords: | Diaphorase Electron carrier Hordeum (NO
2
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reduction) Nitrite reduction Pentose-phosphate pathway Plastid (NO
2
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reduction) Root plastids |
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