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N. A. McHale E. A. Havir I. Zelitch 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》1988,76(1):71-75
Summary A photorespiration mutant of Nicotiana sylvestris lacking serine: glyoxylate aminotransferase activity was isolated in the M2 generation following EMS mutagenesis. Mutants showing chlorosis in air and normal growth in 1% CO2 were fed [14C]-2-glycolate to examine the distribution of 14C among photorespiratory intermediates. Mutant strain NS 349 displayed a 9-fold increase in serine accumulation relative to wild-type controls. Enzyme assays revealed an absence of serine: glyoxylate aminotransferase (SGAT) activity in NS 349, whereas other peroxisomal enzymes were recovered at normal levels. Heterozygous siblings of NS 349 segregating air-sensitive M3 progeny in a 31 ratio were shown to contain one half the normal level of SGAT activity, indicating that air sensitivity in NS 349 results from a single nuclear recessive mutation eliminating SGAT activity. Since toxicity of the mutation depends on photorespiratory activity, callus cultures of the mutant were initiated and maintained under conditions suppressing the formation of functional plastids. Plantlets regenerated from mutant callus were shown to retain the SGAT deficiency and conditional lethality in air. The utility of photorespiration mutants of tobacco as vehicles for genetic manipulation of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase at the somatic cell level is discussed. 相似文献
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A mutant of Hordeum vulgare L. (LaPr 85/84) deficient in serine: glyoxylate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.45) activity has been isolated. The plant also lacks serine: pyruvate aminotransferase and asparagine: glyoxylate aminotransferase activities. Genetic analysis of the mutation strongly indicates that these three activities are all carried on the same enzyme protein. The mutant is incapable of normal rates of photosynthesis in air but can be maintained at 0.7% CO2. The rate of photosynthesis cannot be restored by supplying hydroxypyruvate, glycerate, glutamate or ammonium sulphate through the xylem stream. This photorespiratory mutant demonstrates convincingly that photorespiration still occurs under conditions in which photosynthesis becomes insensitive to oxygen levels. Two major peaks and one minor peak of serine: glyoxylate aminotransferase activity can be separated in extracts of leaves of wild-type barley by diethylaminoethyl-sephacel chromatography. All three peaks are missing from the mutant, LaPr 85/84. The mutant showed the expected rate (50%) of ammonia release during photorespiration but produced CO2 at twice the wild-type rate when it was fed [14C]glyoxylate. The large accumulation of serine detected in the mutant under photorespiratory conditions shows the importance of the enzyme activity in vivo. The effect of the mutation on transient changes in chlorophyll a fluorescence initiated by changing the atmospheric CO2 concentration are presented and the role of the enzyme activity under nonphotorespiratory conditions is discussed.Abbreviations DEAE
diethylaminoethyl
- PFR
photon fluence rate
- SGAT
serine:glyoxylate aminotransferase 相似文献
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A barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) mutant deficient in
serine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (SGAT) was crossed with wild-type plants
to generate heterozygous mutants. Plants of the F2 generation with reduced
SGAT activities (45-60% of wild-type activities) contained proportionally
less SGAT protein. Reduced SGAT activities resulted in the accumulation of
serine and, to a smaller extent, of glycine, indicating that the flux
through the photorespiratory pathway was restricted. Rates of
photosynthesis were, however, not affected by the reduction in SGAT
activity. 相似文献
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A mutant of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), LaPr 88/29, deficient in NADH-dependent hydroxypyruvate reductase (HPR) activity has been isolated. The activities of both NADH (5%) and NADPH-dependent (19%) HPR were severely reduced in this mutant compared to the wild type. Although lacking an enzyme in the main carbon pathway of photorespiration, this mutant was capable of CO2 fixation rates equivalent to 75% of that of the wild type, in normal atmospheres and 50% O2. There also appeared to be little disruption to the photorespiratory metabolism as ammonia release, CO2 efflux and 14CO2 release from l-[U-14C]serine feeding were similar in both mutant and wild-type leaves. When leaves of LaPr 88/29 were fed either [14C]serine or 14CO2, the accumulation of radioactivity was in serine and not in hydroxypyruvate, although the mutant was still able to metabolize over 25% of the supplied [14C]serine into sucrose. After 3 hours in air the soluble amino acid pool was almost totally dominated by serine and glycine. LaPr 88/29 has also been used to show that NADH-glyoxylate reductase and NADH-HPR are probably not catalyzed by the same enzyme in barley and that over 80% of the NADPH-dependent HPR activity is due to the NADH-dependent enzyme. We also suggest that the alternative NADPH activity can metabolise a proportion, but not all, of the hydroxypyruvate produced during photorespiration and may thus form a useful backup to the NADH-dependent enzyme under conditions of maximal photorespiration. 相似文献
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Seven enzymes participating in glycolate metabolism were demonstrated to be present in crude extract of the brown alga Spatoglossum pacificum Yendo. These were phosphoglycolate phosphatase, glycolate oxidase, glutamate-glyoxylate aminotransferase, serine hydroxymethyltransferase, amino acid-hydroxy-pyruvate aminotransferase, hydroxypyruvate reductase and catalase. Malate synthase, which is involved in glycolate metabolism in the xanthophycean alga, could not be detected. On demonstration of subcellular distribution of glycolate oxidizing enzymes by linear sucrose density gradient centrifugation, glycolate oxidase was detected in the same fraction at a density of 1.23 g cm?3 with catalase: that is, the marker enzyme of peroxisome and serine hydroxymethyltransferase was found in the same fraction at a density of 1.21 g cm?3 with isocitrate dehydrogenase, the marker of mitochondria. From the present data, it is proposed that the brown alga Spatoglossum possesses the ability to metabolize glycolate to glycerate via the pathway which may be similar to that of higher plants. 相似文献
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The formation and metabolism of glycolate in the cyanobacterium Coccochloris peniocystis was investigated and the activities of enzymes of glycolate metabolism assayed. Photosynthetic 14CO2 incorporation was O2 insensitive and no labelled glycolate could be detected in cells incubated at 2 and 21% O2. Under conditions of 100% O2 glycolate comprised less than 1% of the acid-stable products indicating ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate (RuBP) oxidation only occurs under conditions of extreme O2 stress. Metabolism of [1-14C] glycolate indicated that as much as 62% of 14C metabolized was released as 14CO2 in the dark. Metabolism of labelled glycolate, particularly incorporation of 14C into glycine, was inhibited by the amino-transferase inhibitor amino-oxyacetate. Metabolism of [2-14C] glycine was not inhibited by the serine hydroxymethyltransferase inhibitor isonicotinic acid hydrazide and little or no labelled serine was detected as a result of 14C-glycolate metabolism. These findings indicate that a significant amount of metabolized glycolate is totally oxidized to CO2 via formate. The remainder is converted to glycine or metabolized via a glyoxylate cycle. The conversion of glycine to serine contributes little to glycolate metabolism and the absence of hydroxypyruvate reductase confirms that the glycolate pathway is incomplete in this cyanobacterium.Abbreviations AAN
aminoacetonitrile
- AOA
aminooxyacetate
- DIC
dissolved inorganic carbon
- INH
isonicotinic acid hydrazide
- PEP
phosphoenolpyruvate
- PEPcase
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase
- PG
phosphoglycolate
- PGA
phosphoglyceric acid
- PGPase
phosphoglycolate phosphatase
- PR
photorespiration
- Rubisco
ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase
- TCA
trichloroacetic acid
- RuBP
ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate 相似文献
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Procedures were devised for heterotrophic culture and autotrophic establishment of protoplast-derived cell cultures from the sat mutant of Nicotiana sylvestris Speg. et Comes lacking serine: glyoxylate aminotransferase (SGAT; EC 2.6.1.45) activity. Increasing photon flux rates (dark, 40, 80 mol quanta·m-2·s-1) enhanced the growth rate of autotrophic (no sucrose) wild-type (WT) cultures in air and 1% CO2. Mutant cultures showed a similar response to light under conditions suppressing photorespiration (1% CO2), and maintained 65% of WT chlorophyll levels. In normal air, however, sat cultures developed severe photorespiratory toxicity, displaying a negligible rate of growth and rapid loss of chlorophyll to levels below 1% of WT. Low levels of sucrose (0.3%) completely reversed photorespiratory toxicity of the mutant cells in air. Mutant cultures maintained 75% of WT chlorophyll levels in air, displayed light stimulation of growth, and fixed 14CO2 at rates identical to WT. Autotrophic sat cultures accumulated serine to levels nearly nine-fold above that of WT cultures in air. Serine accumulated to similar levels in mixotrophic (0.3% sucrose) sat cultures in air, but had no deleterious effect on fixation of 14CO2 or growth, indicating that high levels of serine are not toxic, and that toxicity of the sat mutation probably stems from depletion of intermediates of the Calvin cycle. Autotrophic sat cultures were employed in selection experiments designed to identify spontaneous reversions restoring the capacity for growth in air. From a population of 678 000 sat colonies, 23 plantlets were recovered in which sustained growth in air resulted from reacquisition of SGAT activity. Twenty-two had SGAT levels between 25 and 50% of WT, but one had less than 10% of WT SGAT activity, and eventually developed symptoms typical of the sat mutant. The utility of autotrophic sat cultures for selection of chloroplast mutations diminishing the oxygenase activity of ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (EC 4.1.1.39) is discussed.Abbreviations Chl
chlorophyll
- DW
dry weight
- FW
fresh weight
- SGAT
Serine:glyoxylate aminotransferase
- WT
wild-type 相似文献
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Begoña Blasco Juan J. Rios Luis M. Cervilla Eva Sánchez-Rodríguez María M. Rubio-Wilhelmi Miguel A. Rosales Juan M. Ruiz Luis Romero 《Journal of Plant Growth Regulation》2010,29(4):477-486
Iodine is vital to human health, and iodine biofortification programs help improve human intake through plant consumption.
There is no research on whether iodine biofortification influences basic plant physiological processes. Because nitrogen (N)
uptake, utilization, and accumulation are determining factors in crop yield, the aim of this work was to establish the effect
of the application of different doses (20, 40, and 80 μM) and forms of iodine (iodate [IO3
−] vs. Iodide [I−]) on N metabolism and photorespiration. For this study we analyzed shoot biomass and the activities of nitrate reductase
(NR), nitrite reductase (NiR), glutamine synthetase (GS), glutamate synthase (GOGAT), aspartate aminotransferase (AAT), glutamate
dehydrogenase (GDH), glycolate oxidase (GO), glutamate:glyoxylate aminotransferase (GGAT), serine:glyoxylate aminotransferase
(SGAT), hydroxypyruvate reductase (HR) and catalase (CAT), nitrate (NO3
−), ammonium (NH4
+), organic and total N, amino acids, proteins, serine (ser), malate, and α-ketoglutaric acid in edible lettuce leaves. Application
of I− at doses of at least 40 μM reduced the foliar concentration of NO3
− with no decrease in biomass production, which may improve the nutritional quality of lettuce plants. In contrast, the application
of 80 μM of I− is phytotoxic for lettuce plants, reducing the biomass, foliar concentration of organic N and NO3
−, and NR and GDH activities. HR activity is significantly inhibited with all doses of I−; the least inhibition was at 80 μM. This may involve a decrease in the incorporation of carbonated skeletons from photorespiration
into the Calvin cycle, which may be partially associated with the biomass decrease. Finally, the application of IO3
− increases biomass production, stimulates NO3
− reduction and NH4
+ incorporation (GS/GOGAT), and optimizes the photorespiratory process. Hence, this appears to be the most appropriate form
of iodine from an agronomic standpoint. 相似文献
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By three criteria, the glycolate pathway of metabolism is present in unicellular green algae. Exogenous glycolate-1-14C was assimilated and metabolized to glycine-1-14C and serine-1-14C. During photosynthetic 14CO2 fixation the distributions of 14C in glycolate and glycine were similar enough to suggest a product-precursor relationship. Five enzymes associated with the glycolate pathway were present in algae grown on air. These were P-glycolate phosphatase, glycolate dehydrogenase (glycolate:dichloroindophenol oxidoreductase), l-glutamate:glyoxylate aminotransferase, serine hydroxymethylase, and glycerate dehydrogenase. Properties of glycerate dehydrogenase and the aminotransferase were similar to those from leaf peroxisomes. The specific activity of glycolate dehydrogenase and serine hydroxymethylase in algae was 1/5 to 1/10 that of the other enzymes, and both these enzymes appear ratelimiting for the glycolate pathway. 相似文献
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Intact and broken (osmotically disrupted) spinach (Spinacia oleracea) leaf peroxisomes were compared for their enzymic activities on various metabolites in 0.25 molar sucrose solution. Both intact and broken peroxisomes had similar glycolate-dependent o2 uptake activity. In the conversion of glycolate to glycine in the presence of serine, intact peroxisomes had twice the activity of broken peroxisomes at low glycolate concentrations, and this difference was largely eliminated at saturating glycolate concentrations. However, when glutamate was used instead of serine as the amino group donor, broken peroxisomes had slightly higher activity than intact peroxisomes. In the conversion of glyoxylate to glycine in the presence of serine, intact peroxisomes had only about 50% of the activity of broken peroxisomes at low glyoxylate concentrations, and this difference was largely overcome at saturating glyoxylate concentrations. In the transamination between alanine and hydroxypyruvate, intact peroxisomes had an activity only slightly lower than that of broken peroxisomes. In the oxidation of NADH in the presence of hydroxypyruvate, intact peroxisomes were largely devoid of activity. These results suggest that the peroxisomal membrane does not impose an entry barrier to glycolate, serine, and O2 for matrix enzyme activity; such a barrier does exist to glutamate, alanine, hydroxypyruvate, glyoxylate, and NADH. Furthermore, in intact peroxisomes, glyoxylate generated by glycolate oxidase is channeled directly to glyoxylate aminotransferase for a more efficient glycolate-glycine conversion. In related studies, application of in vitro osmotic stress to intact or broken peroxisomes had little effect on their ability to metabolize glycolate to glycine. 相似文献
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Developmental studies on microbodies in wheat leaves : I. Conditions influencing enzyme development 总被引:18,自引:11,他引:7
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Catalase, glycolate oxidase, and hydroxypyruvate reductase, enzymes which are located in the microbodies of leaves, show different developmental patterns in the shoots of wheat seedlings. Catalase and hydroxypyruvate reductase are already present in the shoots of ungerminated seeds. Glycolate oxidase appears later. All three enzymes develop in the dark, but glycolate oxidase and hydroxypyruvate reductase have only low activities. On exposure of the seedlings to continuous white light (14.8 × 103 ergs cm−2 sec−1), the activity of catalase is doubled, and glycolate oxidase and hydroxypyruvate reductase activities increase by 4- to 7-fold. Under a higher light intensity, the activities of all three enzymes are considerably further increased. The activities of other enzymes (cytochrome oxidase, fumarase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) are unchanged or only slightly influenced by light. After transfer of etiolated seedlings to white light, the induced increase of total catalase activity shows a much longer lag-phase than that of glycolate oxidase and hydroxypyruvate reductase. It is concluded that the light-induced increases of the microbody enzymes are due to enzyme synthesis. The light effect on the microbody enzymes is independent of chlorophyll formation or the concomitant development of functional chloroplasts. Short repeated light exposures which do not lead to greening are very effective. High activities of glycolate oxidase and hydroxypyruvate reductase develop in the presence of 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole which blocks chloroplast development. The effect of light is not exerted through induced glycolate formation and appears instead to be photomorphogenetic in character. 相似文献
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The role of photorespiration during drought stress: an analysis utilizing barley mutants with reduced activities of photorespiratory enzymes 总被引:19,自引:2,他引:19
A. WINGLER W. P. QUICK R. A. BUNGARD K. J. BAILEY P. J. LEA & R. C. LEEGOOD 《Plant, cell & environment》1999,22(4):361-373
C i, intercellular CO2 concentrationFv/Fm, quantum efficiency of excitation capture by open photosystem II centresFBPase, fructose-1,6-bisphosphataseGAPDH, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenaseGDC, glycine decarboxylaseGS-2, chloroplastic glutamine synthetaseHPR, hydroxypyruvate reductasePFD, photon flux densityΦCO2, quantum efficiency of CO2 assimilationΦPSII, quantum efficiency of photosystem II electron transportψ, water potentialqN, non-photochemical chlorophyll a fluorescence quenchingqP, photochemical chlorophyll a fluorescence quenchingRuBP, ribulose-1,5-bisphosphateRubisco, ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenaseSBPase, sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphataseSGAT, serine : glyoxylate aminotransferaseThe significance of photorespiration in drought-stressed plants was studied by withholding water from wild-type barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and from heterozygous mutants with reduced activities of chloroplastic glutamine synthetase (GS-2), glycine decarboxylase (GDC) or serine : glyoxylate aminotransferase (SGAT). Well-watered plants of all four genotypes had identical rates of photosynthesis. Under moderate drought stress (leaf water potentials between –1 and –2 MPa), photosynthesis was lower in the mutants than in the wild type, indicating that photorespiration was increased under these conditions. Analysis of chlorophyll a fluorescence revealed that, in the GDC and SGAT mutants, the lower rates of photosynthesis coincided with a decreased quantum efficiency of photosystem II and increased non-photochemical dissipation of excitation energy. Correspondingly, the de-epoxidation state of xanthophyll-cycle carotenoids was increased several-fold in the drought-stressed GDC and SGAT mutants compared with the wild type. Accumulation of glycine in the GDC mutant was further evidence for increased photorespiration in drought-stressed barley. The effect of drought on the photorespiratory enzymes was determined by immunological detection of protein abundance. While the contents of GS-2 and P- and H-protein of the GDC complex remained unchanged as drought stress developed, the content of NADH-dependent hydroxypyruvate reductase increased. Enzymes of the Benson–Calvin cycle, on the other hand, were either not affected (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase and plastidic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase) or declined (sedoheptulose- 1,7-bisphosphatase and NADP-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase). These data demonstrate that photorespiration was enhanced during drought stress in barley and that the control exerted by photorespiratory enzymes on the rate of photosynthetic electron transport and CO2 fixation was increased. 相似文献
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Compartmentation studies on spinach leaf peroxisomes : evidence for channeling of photorespiratory metabolites in peroxisomes devoid of intact boundary membrane
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In concurrence with earlier results, the following enzymes showed latency in intact spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) leaf peroxisomes: malate dehydrogenase (89%), hydroxypyruvate reductase (85%), serine glyoxylate aminotransferase (75%), glutamate glyoxylate aminotransferase (41%), and catalase (70%). In contrast, glycolate oxidase was not latent. Aging of peroxisomes for several hours resulted in a reduction in latency accompanied by a partial solubilization of the above mentioned enzymes. The extent of enzyme solubilization was different, being highest with glutamate glyoxylate aminotransferase and lowest with malate dehydrogenase. Osmotic shock resulted in only a partial reduction of enzyme latency. Electron microscopy revealed that the osmotically shocked peroxisomes remained compact, with smaller particle size and pleomorphic morphology but without a continuous boundary membrane. Neither in intact nor in osmotically shocked peroxisomes was a lag phase observed in the formation of glycerate upon the addition of glycolate, serine, malate, and NAD. Apparently, the intermediates, glyoxylate, hydroxypyruvate, and NADH, were confined within the peroxisomal matrix in such a way that they did not readily leak out into the surrounding medium. We conclude that the observed compartmentation of peroxisomal metabolism is not due to the peroxisomal boundary membrane as a permeability barrier, but is a function of the structural arrangement of enzymes in the peroxisomal matrix allowing metabolite channeling. 相似文献
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Investigation of the glyoxysome-peroxisome transition in germinating cucumber cotyledons using double-label immunoelectron microscopy 总被引:14,自引:6,他引:8
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Microbodies in the cotyledons of cucumber seedlings perform two successive metabolic functions during early postgerminative development. During the first 4 or 5 d, glyoxylate cycle enzymes accumulate in microbodies called glyoxysomes. Beginning at about day 3, light-induced activities of enzymes involved in photorespiratory glycolate metabolism accumulate rapidly in microbodies. As the cotyledonary microbodies undergo a functional transition from glyoxysomal to peroxisomal metabolism, both sets of enzymes are present at the same time, either within two distinct populations of microbodies with different functions or within a single population of microbodies with a dual function. We have used protein A-gold immunoelectron microscopy to detect two glyoxylate cycle enzymes, isocitrate lyase (ICL) and malate synthase, and two glycolate pathway enzymes, serine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (SGAT) and hydroxypyruvate reductase, in microbodies of transition-stage (day 4) cotyledons. Double-label immunoelectron microscopy was used to demonstrate directly the co-existence of ICL and SGAT within individual microbodies, thereby discrediting the two-population hypothesis. Quantitation of protein A- gold labeling density confirmed that labeling was specific for microbodies. Quantitation of immunolabeling for ICL or SGAT in microbodies adjacent to lipid bodies, to chloroplasts, or to both organelles revealed very similar labeling densities in these three categories, suggesting that concentrations of glyoxysomal and peroxisomal enzymes in transition-stage microbodies probably cannot be predicted based on the apparent associations of microbodies with other organelles. 相似文献
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16.
Ray D. Blackwell Alan J. S. Murray Peter J. Lea Alan C. Kendall Nigel P. Hall Janice C. Turner Roger M. Wallsgrove 《Photosynthesis research》1988,16(1-2):155-176
Manipulation of the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere allows the selection of photorespiratory mutants from populations of seeds treated with powerful mutagens such as sodium azide. So far, barley lines deficient in activity of phosphoglycolate phosphatase, catalase, the glycine to serine conversion, glutamine synthetase, glutamate synthase, 2-oxoglutarate uptake and serine: glyoxylate aminotransferase have been isolated. In addition one line of pea lacking glutamate synthase activity and one barley line containing reduced levels of Rubisco are available. The characteristics of these mutations are described and compared with similar mutants isolated from populations of Arabidopsis. As yet, no mutant lacking glutamine synthetase activity has been isolated from Arabidopsis and possible reasons for this difference between barley and Arabidopsis are discussed. The value of these mutant plants in the elucidation of the mechanism of photorespiration and its relationships with CO2 fixation and amino acid metabolism are highlighted.Abbreviations GS
cytoplasmic glutamine synthetase
- GS2
chloroplastic glutamine synthetase
- PFR
Photon fluence rate
- Rubisco
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
- RuBP
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate
- SGAT
serine:glyoxylate aminotransferase 相似文献
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When provided with glycollate, peroxisomal extracts of leaves of spinach beet (Beta vulgaris L. cv.) converted L-serine and L-glutamate to hydroxypyruvate and 2-oxoglutarate respectively. When approximately saturating concentrations of each of these amino acids were incubated separately with glycollate, the utilization of serine was greater than that of glutamate. The utilization of glutamate was substantially reduced by the presence of relatively low concentrations of serine in the reaction mixture, whereas even high concentrations of glutamate caused only small reductions in serine utilization. Over the entire range of concentrations of amino acids examined, serine was invariably the preferred amino-group donor, but this preference was abolished at higher concentrations of glyoxylate. Serine not only competed favourably for glyoxylate but also inhibited L-glutamate: glyoxylate aminotransferase (GGAT), the degree of inhibition depending upon the glyoxylate concentration. Studies of L-serine: glyoxylate aminotransferase (SGAT) and GGAT in partially purified extracts from spinach-beet leaves confirmed that serine competitively inhibited GGAT but glutamate did not affect SGAT. Both enzymes were inhibited by high glyoxylate concentrations, the inhibition being relieved by suitably high concentrations of the appropriate amino acid. It is concluded that at the low glyoxylate concentrations likely to occur in vivo, the preferential utilization of serine would ensure flux through the glycollate pathway to glycerate, but at higher concentrations of glyoxylate, both enzymes could be fully active in glyoxylate amination.Abbreviations SGAT
L-serine: glyoxylate aminotransferase
- GGAT
L-glutamate: glyoxylate aminotransferase 相似文献
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Subcellular Distribution of Enzymes of Glycolate Metabolism in the Alga Cyanidium caldarium
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The intracellular distribution of enzymes capable of catalyzing the reactions from phosphoglycolate to glycerate in the bluegreen colored eucaryotic alga Cyanidium caldarium has been studied. After separating the organelles from a crude homogenate on a linear flotation gradient, the enzymes glycolate oxidase and glutamate-glyoxylate aminotransferase along with catalase were present in the peroxisomal fraction (density: 1.23 grams per cubic centimeter). Serine hydroxymethyltransferase was found in the mitochondrial fraction (density: 1.18 grams per cubic centimeter). In contrast to the observations in green leaves of higher plants, the enzymes for the conversion of serine to glycerate (serine-glyoxylate aminotransferase and hydroxypyruvate reductase) were found only in the soluble fraction of the gradient. The partial characterization of enzymes from Cyanidium participating in glycolate metabolism revealed only slight differences from the corresponding enzymes from higher plants. The phylogenetic implications of the observed similarities between the enigmatic alga Cyanidium and higher plants are discussed. 相似文献
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Lon Lon Liao K.E. Richardson 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》1978,538(1):76-86
Hydroxypyruvate and glycolate inhibited the oxidation of [U-14C]glyoxylate to [14C]oxalate in isolated perfused rat liver, but stimulated total oxalate and glycolate synthesis. [14C]Oxalate synthesis from [14C]glycine similarly inhibited by hydroxypyruvate, but conversion of [14C1]glycolate to [4C]oxalate was increased three-fold. Pyruvate had no effect on the synthesis of [14C]oxalate or total oxalate. The inhibition studies suggest that hydroxypyruvate is a precursor of glycolate and oxalate and that the conversion of glycolate to oxalate does not involve free glyoxylate as an intermediate. [14C3]Hydroxypyruvate, but not [14C1]hydroxypyruvate, was oxidized to [14C]oxalate in isolated perfused rat liver. Isotope dilution studies indicate the major pathway involves the decarboxylation of hydroxypyruvate forming glycolaldehyde which is subsequently oxidized to oxalate via glycolate. The oxidation of serine to oxalate appears to proceed predominantly via hydroxypyruvate rather than glycine or ethanolamine. The hyperoxaluria of L-glyceric aciduria, primary hyperoxaluria type II, is induced by the oxidation of the hydroxypyruvate, which accumulates because of the deficiency of D-glyceric dehydrogenase, to oxalate. 相似文献
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Yasuo Kitagawa Etsuro Sugimoto 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》1979,582(2):276-282
Intracellular localization of D-glycerate dehydrogenase (D-glycerate : NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.29), one of the enzymes of the pathway for gluconeogenesis from serine via hydroxypyruvate, was studied by differential centrifugation. Almost all enzyme activity was found in cytosol. Since the major activities of two other enzymes, serine : pyruvate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.51) and glycerate kinase (ATP : D-glycerate 2-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.31), of the pathway via hydroxypyruvate are localized in mitochondrial inner membrane and/or matrix, the possible localization of D-glyceratedehydrogenase in mitochondria was examined. Detailed analysis of mitochondrial fraction prepared by differential centrifugation indicated that rat liver mitochondria do not contain any D-glycerate dehydrogenase activity. Based on these results, a cooperative connection between mitochondria and cytosol in gluconeogenesis from serine via hydroxypyruvate is proposed. Possible mechanisms for transport of intermediates of the pathway via hydroxypyruvate across the mitochondrial membranes are also discussed. 相似文献