Ribulose 1,5-diphosphate carboxylase and Chlorobium thiosulfatophilum |
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Authors: | Bob B Buchanan Reidun Sirevåg |
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Institution: | (1) Botanical Laboratory, University of Oslo, Blindern, Postboks 1045, Oslo 3, Norway;(2) Present address: Department of Cell Physiology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA |
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Abstract: | 1. Cell-free extracts of the photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium thiosulfatophilum, strains 8327 and Tassajara, were assayed for ribulose 1,5-diphosphate (RuDP) carboxylase and phosphoribulokinase-the two enzymes peculiar to the reductive pentose phosphate cycle. 2. RuDP carboxylase was consistently absent in strain 8327. The Tassajara strain showed a low RuDP-dependent CO2 fixation activity that was somewhat higher in cells following transatlantic air shipment than in freshly grown cells. The stability and behaviour of this activity in sucrose density gradients were similar to those described by other workers. 3. The radioactive carboxylation products formed in the presence of RuDP by enzyme preparations from the Tassajara strain did not include 3-phosphoglycerate-the known product of the RuDP carboxylase reaction, but instead consisted of the unrelated acids glutamate, aspartate and malate. 4. Phosphoribulokinase was absent in all preparations of the two Chlorobium strains tested. By contrast, phosphoribulokinase as well as RuDP carboxylase were readily demonstrated in preparations from pea chloroplasts and the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum. 5. It is concluded that C. thiosulfatophilum appears to lack RuDP carboxylase, phosphoribulokinase, and hence, the reductive pentose phosphate cycle.Support of a J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship is gratefully acknowledged |
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Keywords: | Chlorobium thiosulfatophilum Ribulose 1 5-diphosphate crboxylase Phosphoribulokinase Photosynthesis CO2 assimilation Reductive pentose phosphate cycle Reductive carboxylic acid cycle |
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