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We report the changes in the concentrations and 18O contents of extracellular CO2 and HCO3 in suspensions of Synechococcus sp. (UTEX 2380) using membrane inlet mass spectrometry. This marine cyanobacterium is known to have an active uptake mechanism for inorganic carbon. Measuring 18O exchange between CO2 and water, we have found the intracellular carbonic anhydrase activity to be equivalent to 20 times the uncatalyzed CO2 hydration rate in different samples of cells that were grown on bubbled air (low-CO2 conditions). This activity was only weakly inhibited by ethoxzolamide with an I50 near 7 to 10 micromolar in lysed cell suspensions. We have shown that even with CO2-starved cells there is considerable generation of CO2 from intracellular stores, a factor that can cause errors in measurement of net CO2 uptake unless accounted for. It was demonstrated that use of 13C-labeled inorganic carbon outside the cell can correct for such errors in mass spectrometric measurement. Oxygen-18 depletion experiments show that in the light, CO2 readily passes across the cell membrane to the sites of intracellular carbonic anhydrase. Although HCO3 was readily taken up by the cells, these experiments shown that there is no significant efflux of HCO3 from Synechococcus.  相似文献   

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By measuring 18O exchange from doubly labeled CO2 (13C18O18O), intracellular carbonic anhydrase activity was studied with protoplasts and chloroplasts isolated from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii grown either on air (low inorganic carbon [Ci]) or air enriched with 5% CO2 (high Ci). Intact low Ci protoplasts had a 10-fold higher carbonic anhydrase activity than did high Ci protoplasts. Application of dextran-bound inhibitor and quaternary ammonium sulfanilamide, both known as membrane impermeable inhibitors of carbonic anhydrase, had no influence on the catalysis of 18O exchange, indicating that cross-contamination with extracellular carbonic anhydrase was not responsible for the observed activity. This intracellular in vivo activity from protoplasts was inhibited by acetazolamide and ethoxyzolamide. Intracellular carbonic anhydrase activity was partly associated with intact chloroplasts isolated from high and low Ci cells, and the latter had a sixfold greater rate of catalysis. The presence of dextran-bound inhibitor had no effect on chloroplast-associated carbonic anhydrase, whereas 150 micromolar ethoxyzolamide caused a 61 to 67% inhibition of activity. These results indicate that chloroplastic carbonic anhydrase was located within the plastid and that it was relatively insensitive to ethoxyzolamide. Carbonic anhydrase activity in crude homogenates of protoplasts and chloroplasts was about six times higher in the low Ci than in high Ci preparations. Further separation into soluble and insoluble fractions together with inhibitor studies revealed that there are at least two different forms of intracellular carbonic anhydrase. One enzyme, which was rather insoluble and relatively insensitive to ethoxyzolamide, is likely an intrachloroplastic carbonic anhydrase. The second carbonic anhydrase, which was soluble and sensitive to ethoxyzolamide, is most probably located in an extrachloroplastic compartment.  相似文献   

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We have measured the exchange of 18O between CO2 and H2O in stirred suspensions of Chlorella vulgaris (UTEX 263) using a membrane inlet to a mass spectrometer. The depletion of 18O from CO2 in the fluid outside the cells provides a method to study CO2 and HCO3 kinetics in suspensions of algae that contain carbonic anhydrase since 18O loss to H2O is catalyzed inside the cells but not in the external fluid. Low-CO2 cells of Chlorella vulgaris (grown with air) were added to a solution containing 18O enriched CO2 and HCO3 with 2 to 15 millimolar total inorganic carbon. The observed depletion of 18O from CO2 was biphasic and the resulting 18C content of CO2 was much less than the 18O content of HCO3 in the external solution. Analysis of the slopes showed that the Fick's law rate constant for entry of HCO3 into the cell was experimentally indistinguishable from zero (bicarbonate impermeable) with an upper limit of 3 × 10−4 s−1 due to our experimental errors. The Fick's law rate constant for entry of CO2 to the sites of intracellular carbonic anhydrase was large, 0.013 per second, but not as great as calculated for no membrane barrier to CO2 flux (6 per second). The experimental value may be explained by a nonhomogeneous distribution of carbonic anhydrase in the cell (such as membrane-bound enzyme) or by a membrane barrier to CO2 entry into the cell or both. The CO2 hydration activity inside the cells was 160 times the uncatalyzed CO2 hydration rate.  相似文献   

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Active CO(2) Transport by the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii   总被引:6,自引:6,他引:0       下载免费PDF全文
Mass spectrometric measurements of dissolved free 13CO2 were used to monitor CO2 uptake by air grown (low CO2) cells and protoplasts from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In the presence of 50 micromolar dissolved inorganic carbon and light, protoplasts which had been washed free of external carbonic anhydrase reduced the 13CO2 concentration in the medium to close to zero. Similar results were obtained with low CO2 cells treated with 50 micromolar acetazolamide. Addition of carbonic anhydrase to protoplasts after the period of rapid CO2 uptake revealed that the removal of CO2 from the medium in the light was due to selective and active CO2 transport rather than uptake of total dissolved inorganic carbon. In the light, low CO2 cells and protoplasts incubated with carbonic anhydrase took up CO2 at an apparently low rate which reflected the uptake of total dissolved inorganic carbon. No net CO2 uptake occurred in the dark. Measurement of chlorophyll a fluorescence yield with low CO2 cells and washed protoplasts showed that variable fluorescence was mainly influenced by energy quenching which was reciprocally related to photosynthetic activity with its highest value at the CO2 compensation point. During the linear uptake of CO2, low CO2 cells and protoplasts incubated with carbonic anhydrase showed similar rates of net O2 evolution (102 and 108 micromoles per milligram of chlorophyll per hour, respectively). The rate of net O2 evolution (83 micromoles per milligram of chlorophyll per hour) with washed protoplasts was 20 to 30% lower during the period of rapid CO2 uptake and decreased to a still lower value of 46 micromoles per milligram of chlorophyll per hour when most of the free CO2 had been removed from the medium. The addition of carbonic anhydrase at this point resulted in more than a doubling of the rate of O2 evolution. These results show low CO2 cells of Chlamydomonas are able to transport both CO2 and HCO3 but CO2 is preferentially removed from the medium. The external carbonic anhydrase is important in the supply to the cells of free CO2 from the dehydration of HCO3.  相似文献   

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A simple model based on HCO3 transport has been developed to relate photosynthesis and inorganic carbon fluxes for the marine cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. Nägeli (strain RRIMP N1). Predicted relationships between inorganic carbon transport, CO2 fixation, internal carbonic anhydrase activity, and leakage of CO2 out of the cell, allow comparisons to be made with experimentally obtained data. Measurements of inorganic carbon fluxes and internal inorganic carbon pool sizes in these cells were made by monitoring time-courses of CO2 changes (using a mass spectrometer) during light/dark transients. At just saturating CO2 conditions, total inorganic carbon transport did not exceed net CO2 fixation by more than 30%. This indicates CO2 leakage similar to that estimated for C4 plants.

For this leakage rate, the model predicts the cell would need a conductance to CO2 of around 10−5 centimeters per second. This is similar to estimates made for the same cells using inorganic carbon pool sizes and CO2 efflux measurements. The model predicts that carbonic anhydrase is necessary internally to allow a sufficiently fast rate of CO2 production to prevent a large accumulation of HCO3. Intact cells show light stimulated carbonic anhydrase activity when assayed using 18O-labeled CO2 techniques. This is also supported by low but detectable levels of carbonic anhydrase activity in cell extracts, sufficient to meet the requirements of the model.

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A spontaneous mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 was isolated for its resistance to acetazolamide, an inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase. The mutant showed a deficiency in oxygen exchange between CO2 and H2O, a lower level of stable internal CO2 pool and a decreased capacity to adapt its photosynthetic affinity under limited inorganic carbon regime. The initial rate of uptake of inorganic carbon was identical to that of wild-type cells. It is demonstrated that the mutation affects the carbonic anhydrase activity. This could result from either of two impairments: a deficiency in the enzyme activity detectable by mass spectrometric determinations, or a modification of the cellular compartment in which the enzyme is located, preventing its activity.  相似文献   

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In order to broaden our understanding of the eukaryotic CO2-concentrating mechanism the occurrence and localization of a thylakoid-associated carbonic anhydrase (EC 4.2.1.1) were studied in the green algae Tetraedron minimum and Chlamydomonas noctigama. Both algae induce a CO2-concentrating mechanism when grown under limiting CO2 conditions. Using mass-spectrometric measurements of 18O exchange from doubly labelled CO2, the presence of a thylakoid-associated carbonic anhydrase was confirmed for both species. From purified thylakoid membranes, photosystem I (PSI), photosystem II (PSII) and the light-harvesting complex of the photosynthetic apparatus were isolated by mild detergent gel. The protein fractions were identified by 77 K fluorescence spectroscopy and immunological studies. A polypeptide was found to immunoreact with an antibody raised against thylakoid carbonic anhydrase (CAH3) from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. It was found that this polypeptide was mainly associated with PSII, although a certain proportion was also connected to light harvesting complex II. This was confirmed by activity measurements of carbonic anhydrase in isolated bands extracted from the mild detergent gel. The thylakoid carbonic anhydrase isolated from T. minimum had an isoelectric point between 5.4 and 4.8. Together the results are consistent with the hypothesis that thylakoid carbonic anhydrase resides within the lumen where it is associated with the PSII complex. Received: 13 May 2000 / Accepted: 16 August 2000  相似文献   

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Threat of global warming due to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions has stimulated research into carbon sequestration and emissions reduction technologies. Alkaline scrubbing allows CO2 to be captured as bicarbonate, which can be photochemically fixed by microalgae. The carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM), of which external carbonic anhydrase is a key component, allows organisms to utilise this bicarbonate. In order to select a suitable strain for this application, a screening tool is required. The current method for determining carbonic anhydrase activity, the Wilbur and Anderson assay, was found to be unsuitable as a screening tool as the associated error was unacceptably large and tests on whole cells were inconclusive. This paper presents the development of a new, whole cell assay to measure inorganic carbon uptake and external carbonic anhydrase activity, based on classical pH drift experiments. Spirulina platensis was successfully used to develop a correlation between the specific carbon uptake (C) and the specific pH change (dpH). The relationship is described by the following: C[mmol C (g dry algae)?1?h?1]?=?0.064?×?(dpH). Inhibitor and salt dissociation tests validated the activity and presence of external carbonic anhydrase and allowed correlation between the Wilbur and Anderson assay and the new whole cell assay. Screening tests were conducted on S. platensis, Scenedesmus sp., Chlorella vulgaris and Dunaliella salina that were found to have carbon uptake rates of 5.76, 5.86, 3.86 and 2.15 mmol C (g dry algae)?1?h?1, respectively. These results corresponded to the species' known bicarbonate utilisation abilities and validated the use of the assay as a screening tool.  相似文献   

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Cells of a high CO2-requiring mutant (E1) and wild type of Synechococcus PCC7942 were incubated with COS in the light, then suspended in COS-free medium and their CO2 exchange was measured using an open gas-analysis system under the conditions where photosynthetic CO2 fixation is inhibited. When the suspension of cells untreated with COS was illuminated, the rate of CO2 uptake was high and addition of carbonic anhydrase during illumination released a large amount of CO2 from the medium into the gas phase. The COS treatment in the light markedly reduced the rate of CO2 uptake by the cells and the amount of CO2 released by carbonic anhydrase. Incubation of cells with COS in the dark had no effect on the CO2-exchange profile. The COS concentration required for 50% inhibition of CO2 uptake was about 25 micromolar when the concentration of inorganic carbon (Ci) in the medium was 60 micromolar; higher Ci concentrations reduced the inhibitory effect of COS. Measurement of Ci uptake in E1 cells by a silicone oil centrifugation method also indicated marked reduction of the activities of 14CO2 and H14CO3 uptake in the cells treated with COS in the light. The results demonstrated that COS is a potent inhibitor of Ci transport.  相似文献   

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Membrane-permeable and impermeable inhibitors of carbonic anhydrase have been used to assess the roles of extracellular and intracellular carbonic anhydrase on the inorganic carbon concentrating system in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Acetazolamide, ethoxzolamide, and a membrane-impermeable, dextran-bound sulfonamide were potent inhibitors of extracellular carbonic anhydrase measured with intact cells. At pH 5.1, where CO2 is the predominant species of inorganic carbon, both acetazolamide and the dextran-bound sulfonamide had no effect on the concentration of CO2 required for the half-maximal rate of photosynthetic O2 evolution (K0.5[CO2]) or inorganic carbon accumulation. However, a more permeable inhibitor, ethoxzolamide, inhibited CO2 fixation but increased the accumulation of inorganic carbon as compared with untreated cells. At pH 8, the K0.5(CO2) was increased from 0.6 micromolar to about 2 to 3 micromolar with both acetazolamide and the dextran-bound sulfonamide, but to a higher value of 60 micromolar with ethoxzolamide. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that CO2 is the species of inorganic carbon which crosses the plasmalemma and that extracellular carbonic anhydrase is required to replenish CO2 from HCO3 at high pH. These data also implicate a role for intracellular carbonic anhydrase in the inorganic carbon accumulating system, and indicate that both acetazolamide and the dextran-bound sulfonamide inhibit only the extracellular enzyme. It is suggested that HCO3 transport for internal accumulation might occur at the level of the chloroplast envelope.  相似文献   

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The occurrence of an active CO2 transport system and of carbonic anhydrase (CA) has been investigated by mass spectrometry in the marine, unicellular rhodophyte Porphyridium cruentum (S.F. Gray) Naegeli and two marine chlorophytes Nannochloris atomus Butcher and Nannochloris maculata Butcher. Illumination of darkened cells incubated with 100 μM H13CO3? caused a rapid initial drop, followed by a slower decline in the extracellular CO2 concentration. Addition of bovine CA to the medium raised the CO2 concentration by restoring the HCO3?–CO2 equilibrium, indicating that cells were taking up CO2 and were maintaining the CO2 concentration in the medium below its equilibrium value during photosynthesis. Darkening the cell suspensions caused a rapid increase in the extracellular CO2 concentration in all three species, indicating that the cells had accumulated an internal pool of unfixed inorganic carbon. CA activity was detected by monitoring the rate of exchange of 18O from 13C18O2 into water. Exchange of 18O was rapid in darkened cell suspensions, but was not inhibited by 500 μM acetazolamide, a membrane‐impermeable inhibitor of CA, indicating that external CA activity was not present in any of these species. In all three species, the rate of exchange was completely inhibited by 500 μM ethoxyzolamide, a membrane‐permeable CA‐inhibitor, showing that an intracellular CA was present. These results demonstrate that the three species are capable of CO2 uptake by active transport for use as a carbon source for photosynthesis.  相似文献   

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Inorganic carbon (Ci) uptake was measured in wild-type cells of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and in cia-3, a mutant strain of C. reinhardtii that cannot grow with air levels of CO2. Both air-grown cells, that have a CO2 concentrating system, and 5% CO2-grown cells that do not have this system, were used. When the external pH was 5.1 or 7.3, air-grown, wild-type cells accumulated inorganic carbon (Ci) and this accumulation was enhanced when the permeant carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, ethoxyzolamide, was added. When the external pH was 5.1, 5% CO2-grown cells also accumulated some Ci, although not as much as air-grown cells and this accumulation was stimulated by the addition of ethoxyzolamide. At the same time, ethoxyzolamide inhibited CO2 fixation by high CO2-grown, wild-type cells at both pH 5.1 and 7.3. These observations imply that 5% CO2-grown, wild-type cells, have a physiologically important internal carbonic anhydrase, although the major carbonic anhydrase located in the periplasmic space is only present in air-grown cells. Inorganic carbon uptake by cia-3 cells supported this conclusion. This mutant strain, which is thought to lack an internal carbonic anhydrase, was unaffected by ethoxyzolamide at pH 5.1. Other physiological characteristics of cia-3 resemble those of wild-type cells that have been treated with ethoxyzolamide. It is concluded that an internal carbonic anhydrase is under different regulatory control than the periplasmic carbonic anhydrase.  相似文献   

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A burst of net CO2 uptake was observed during the first 3–4 min after the onset of illumination in both wild-type Chlamydomonas reinhardii in which carbonic anhydrase was chemically inhibited with ethoxyzolamide and in a mutant of C. reinhardii (ca-1-12-1C) deficient in carbonic anhydrase activity. The burst was followed by a rapid decrease in the CO2 uptake rate so that net evolution often occurred. After a 2–3 min period of CO2 evolution, net CO2 uptake again increased and ultimately reached a steady-state, positive rate. From [14CO2]-tracer studies it was determined that CO2 fixation proceeded at a nearly linear rate throughout the period of illumination. Thus, prior to reaching a steady state, there was a rapid accumulation of inorganic carbon inside the cells which apparently reached a supercritical concentration and the excess was excreted, causing a subsequent efflux of CO2. A post illumination burst of net CO2 efflux was also observed in ethoxyzolamide-inhibited wild type and ca-1 mutant cells, but not in the unihibited wild type. [14CO2]-tracer experiments revealed that this burst was the result of a collapse of a large internal inorganic carbon pool at the onset of darkness rather than a photorespiratory post-illumination burst. These results indicate that upon illumination, chemical or genetic inhibition of carbonic anhydrase initially causes an accumulation of excess inroganic carbon in C. reinhardii cells, and that unknown regulatory mechanisms correct for this imbalance by first excreting the excess inorganic carbon and then, after several dampened oscillations, achieving an equilibrium between bicarbonate uptake, bicarbonate dehydration, and CO2 fixation.  相似文献   

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The rate of photosynthetic carbon uptake of Chondrus crispus Stack-house plants, at various CO2 concentrations and pretreated with carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitors, was determined using an air-suspension, differential infra-red gas analyzer technique. It was found that the CA inhibitors, acetazolamide, dextran-bound acetazolamide (DBI, which does not permeate cell membranes), and subtilisin (a protease that attacks the cell surface) inhibit photosynthetic carbon uptake in C. crispus. Inhibition was greatest at low CO2 concentrations, and decreased at CO2 saturation. Acetazolamide inhibited carbon uptake to a greater extent than DBI. The data support the conclusion that C. crispus plants utilize HCO3 for photosynthesis, and that both cell-surface and internal CA are involved in the photosynthetic uptake of inorganic carbon.  相似文献   

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Atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions cause a decrease in the pH and aragonite saturation state of surface ocean water. As a result, calcifying organisms are expected to suffer under future ocean conditions, but their physiological responses may depend on their nutrient status. Because many coral reefs experience high inorganic nutrient loads or seasonal changes in nutrient availability, reef organisms in localized areas will have to cope with elevated carbon dioxide and changes in inorganic nutrients. Halimeda opuntia is a dominant calcifying primary producer on coral reefs that contributes to coral reef accretion. Therefore, we investigated the carbon and nutrient balance of H. opuntia exposed to elevated carbon dioxide and inorganic nutrients. We measured tissue nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon content as well as the activity of enzymes involved in inorganic carbon uptake and nitrogen assimilation (external carbonic anhydrase and nitrate reductase, respectively). Inorganic carbon content was lower in algae exposed to high CO2, but calcification rates were not significantly affected by CO2 or inorganic nutrients. Organic carbon was positively correlated to external carbonic anhydrase activity, while inorganic carbon showed the opposite correlation. Carbon dioxide had a significant effect on tissue nitrogen and organic carbon content, while inorganic nutrients affected tissue phosphorus and N:P ratios. Nitrate reductase activity was highest in algae grown under elevated CO2 and inorganic nutrient conditions and lowest when phosphate was limiting. In general, we found that enzymatic responses were strongly influenced by nutrient availability, indicating its important role in dictating the local responses of the calcifying primary producer H. opuntia to ocean acidification.  相似文献   

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A model is presented which quantifies a possible role for the carbonic anhydrase in the mitochondrial matrix of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii which incorporates the observation that the expression of this enzyme is increased under growth conditions in which the expression of the carbon dioxide-concentrating mechanism is increased. It is assumed that the inorganic carbon enters the cytosol from the medium, and leaves the cytosol to the plastids, as HCO3 and that there is negligible carbonic anhydrase activity in the cytosol. The role of the mitochondrial carbonic anhydrase is suggested to be the conversion to HCO3 of the CO2 produced in the mitochondria in the light from tricarboxylic acid cycle activity and from decarboxylation of glycine in any photorespiratory carbon oxidation cycle activity which is not suppressed by the carbon concentrating mechanism. If there is a HCO3 channel in the inner mitochondrial membrane then almost all of the inorganic carbon leaves the mitochondria as HCO3, thus limiting the potential for CO2 leakage through the plasmalemma. This mechanism could increase inorganic C supply to ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase by some 10% at the energetic expense of less than 1% of the total ATP generation by plastids plus mitochondria.  相似文献   

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The 18O-enrichment of CO2 produced in the light or during the post-illumination burst was measured by mass spectrometry when a photoautotrophic cell suspension of Euphorbia characias L. was placed in photorespiratory conditions in the presence of molecular 18O2. The only 18O-labeled species produced was C18O16O; no C18O18O could be detected. Production of C18O16O ceased after addition of two inhibitors of the photosynthetic carbon-oxidation cycle, aminooxyacetate or aminoacetonitrile, and was inhibited by high levels of CO2. The average enrichment during the post-illumination burst was estimated to be 46 ± 15% of the enrichment of the O2 present during the preceding light period. Addition of exogenous carbonic anhydrase, by catalyzing the exchange between CO2 and H2O, drastically diminished the 18O-enrichment of the produced CO2. The very low carbonio-anhydrase level of the photoautotrophic cell suspension probably explains why the 18O labeling of photorespiratory CO2 could be observed for the first time. These data allow the establishment of a direct link between O2 consumption and CO2 production in the light, and the conclusion that CO2 produced in the light results, at least partially, from the mitochondrial decarboxylation of the glycine pool synthesized through the photosynthetic carbon-oxidation cycle. Analysis of the C18O16O and CO2 kinetics provides a direct and reliable way to assess in vivo the real contribution of photorespiratory metabolism to CO2 production in the light.  相似文献   

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Marine macroalgae possess a range of mechanisms to increase the availability of CO2 for fixation by ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. Of these, possession of a periplasmic or external carbonic anhydrase and the ability to use bicarbonate ions is widely distributed. The mechanisms of carbon acquisition were studied in two estuarine red macroalgae Bostrychia scorpioides and Catenella caespitosa using a range of techniques. pH-drift and CO2-depletion experiments at constant pH suggested that CO2 is the main source of inorganic carbon in both species. Inhibitors indicated that internal and external carbonic anhydrase were present in both species. Inhibitors also suggested that uptake of bicarbonate is unlikely to be present (P < 0.05).  相似文献   

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Mass spectrometry has been used to confirm the presence of an active transport system for CO2 in Synechococcus UTEX 625. Cells were incubated at pH 8.0 in 100 micromolar KHCO3 in the absence of Na+ (to prevent HCO3 transport). Upon illumination the cells rapidly removed almost all the free CO2 from the medium. Addition of carbonic anhydrase revealed that the CO2 depletion resulted from a selective uptake of CO2, rather than a total uptake of all inorganic carbon species. CO2 transport stopped rapidly (<3 seconds) when the light was turned off. Iodoacetamide (3.3 millimolar) completely inhibited CO2 fixation but had little effect on CO2 transport. In iodoacetamide poisoned cells, transport of CO2 occurred against a concentration gradient of about 18,000 to 1. Transport of CO2 was completely inhibited by 10 micromolar diethylstilbestrol, a membrane-bound ATPase inhibitor. Studies with DCMU and PSI light indicated that CO2 transport was driven by ATP produced by cyclic or pseudocyclic photophosphorylation. Low concentrations of Na+ (<100 microequivalents per liter), but not of K+, stimulated CO2 transport as much as 2.4-fold. Unlike Na+-dependent HCO3 transport, the transport of CO2 was not inhibited by high concentrations (30 milliequivalents per liter) of Li+. During illumination, the CO2 concentration in the medium remained far below its equilibrium value for periods up to 15 minutes. This could only happen if CO2 transport was continuously occurring at a rapid rate, since the continuing dehydration of HCO3 to CO2 would rapidly raise the CO2 concentration to its equilibrium value if transport ceased. Measurement of the rate of dissolved inorganic carbon accumulation under these conditions indicated that at least part of the continuing CO2 transport was balanced by HCO3 efflux.  相似文献   

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The dissolved inorganic carbon concentrating mechanism(s) of Chlamydomonas moewusii CC 55 was compared with C. reinhardtii strain 137. C. moewusii is similar to C. reinhardtii with respect to maximal rates of photosynthetic oxygen evolution, CO2 fixation, respiration, and the ability to efficiently concentrate inorganic carbon. C. moewusii has a low, but measurable amount of external carbonic anhydrase (CA) that was not inhibited by acetazolamide (AZ), an inhibitor of periplasmic carbonic anhydrase (pCA) in C. reinhardtii. The K0.5(CO2) for air-grown C. moewusii is about 1 μM and the algal cells accumulated dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) to a level of about 1 mM in 60 s. AZ did not inhibit CO2 fixation and the DIC accumulation by air-grown cells of C. moewusii. The K0.5(CO2) for both species remains constant from pH 6.5 to 9.5 while K0.5(HCO3-) increased logarithmically, which indicates that CO2 is the apparent inorganic carbon species that enters the cells in both algae. Antiserum prepared against the 37 kDa peptide of pCA from C. reinhardtii was immunoreactive with polypeptides of 26, 28, and 32 kDa in C. moewusii. The periplasmic carbonic anhydrase (pCA) activity is a part of the dissolved inorganic carbon concentrating mechanism in C. reinhardtii, but C  moewusii accomplished inorganic carbon accumulation without an AZ-sensitive pCA.  相似文献   

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