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3-Phosphoglycerate- and oxaloacetate-dependent O 2 photoevolution by permeabilized cell preparations (Pressates), prepared from wild type ( Wt) and two reductive pentose phosphate cycle mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii showed different sensitivities to the inhibitors sodium cyanide and sodium azide. NaCN (1.5 millimolar) severely inhibits both CO 2- and 3-phosphoglycerate-dependent O 2 photoevolution by the Wt Pressate, but does not inhibit 3-phosphoglycerate-dependent O 2 photoevolution by Pressates prepared from the mutants rcl-u-1-10-6C (which lacks ribulose, 1-5, bisphosphate carboxylase activity) and F60 (which lacks phosphoribulokinase activity). NaN 3 (0.5 millimolar) inhibits 3-phosphoglycerate-dependent O 2 photoevolution by the rcl-u-1-10-6C Pressate more severely than in the Pressates prepared from F60 and Wt. A higher concentration of NaN 3 (2.0 millimolar) severely inhibited oxaloacetate-dependent O 2 photoevolution by the rcl-u-1-10-6C, but not by the F60 Pressate. O 2 exchange-dependent upon methyl viologen was not strongly inhibited by 2 millimolar NaN 3 in either of the mutant Pressates. The data suggests that the mutational lesions which resulted in decreased ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase and phosphoribulokinase activities effected changes in other photosynthetic reactions, either by direct interactions between component proteins or by causing changes in substrate or cofactor availability to the partial reactions. 相似文献
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Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate in the chloroplast has been suggested to regulate the activity of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. To generate high levels of ribulose bisphosphate, isolated and intact spinach chloroplasts were illuminated in the absence of CO 2. Under these conditions, chloroplasts generate internally up to 300 nanomoles ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate per milligram chlorophyll if O 2 is also absent. This is equivalent to 12 millimolar ribulose bisphosphate, while the enzyme, ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase, offers up to 3.0 millimolar binding sites for the bisphosphate in the chloroplast stroma. During illumination, the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase is deactivated, due mostly to the absence of CO 2 required for activation. The rate of deactivation of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase was not affected by the chloroplast ribulose bisphosphate levels. Upon addition of CO 2, the carboxylase in the chloroplast was completely reactivated. Of interest, addition of 3-phosphoglycerate stopped deactivation of the carboxylase in the chloroplast while ribulose bisphosphate accumulated. With intact chloroplasts in light, no correlation between deactivation of the carboxylase and ribulose bisphosphate levels could be shown. 相似文献
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Protoplasts, protoplast extracts (intact chloroplasts plus extrachloroplastic material), and chloroplasts isolated from protoplasts of wheat ( Triticum aestivum) have rates of photosynthesis as measured by light-dependent O 2 evolution of about 100 to 150 micromoles of O 2 per milligram of chlorophyll per hour at 20 C and saturating bicarbonate. The assay conditions sufficient for this activity were 0.4 molar sorbitol, 50 millimolar N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N′-2-ethanesulfonic acid KOH (pH 7.6), and 10 millimolar NaHCO 3 with protoplast, plus a requirement of 1 to 10 millimolar ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) and 0.2 to 0.5 millimolar inorganic orthophosphate (Pi) with protoplast extracts and chloroplasts. Protoplast extracts evolved approximately 6 micromoles of O 2 per milligram of chlorophyll before photosynthesis became largely dependent on exogenous Pi while photosynthesis by chloroplasts had a much stronger dependence on exogenous Pi from the outset. Photosynthesis by chloroplasts from 6-day-old wheat plants under optimum levels of Pi was similar to that with the addition of 5 millimolar inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) plus 0.2 millimolar adenosine-5′-diphosphate (ADP). Either PPi or ADP added separately inhibited photosynthesis. When chloroplasts were incubated in the dark for 2 to 6 minutes, photosynthesis was strongly inhibited by 5 millimolar PPi and this inhibiting was relieved by including adenosine-5′-triphosphate (ATP) or ADP (0.2 to 0.6 millimolar). Chloroplasts from 9-day-old wheat leaves were slightly less sensitive to inhibition by PPi and showed little or no inhibition by ADP. Chloroplasts isolated from protoplasts and assayed with 0.3 millimolar Pi added before illumination have an induction time from less than 1 minute up to 16 minutes depending on the time of the assay after isolation and the components of the medium. In order to obtain maximum rates of photosynthesis and minimum induction time, NaHCO3 and chelating agents, EDTA or PPi (+ATP), are required in the chloroplast isolation, resuspension and assay medium. With these inclusions in the isolation and resuspension medium the induction time decreased rapidly during the first 20 to 30 minutes storage of chloroplasts on ice. Requirements for isolating intact and photosynthetically functional chloroplasts from wheat protoplasts are discussed. 相似文献
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Because glyoxylate inhibits CO 2 fixation by intact chloroplasts and purified ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, glyoxylate might be expected to exert some regulatory effect on photosynthesis. However, ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase activity and activation in intact chloroplasts from Spinacia oleracea L. leaves were not substantially inhibited by 10 millimolar glyoxylate. In the light, the ribulose bisphosphate pool decreased to half when 10 millimolar glyoxylate was present, whereas this pool doubled in the control. When 10 millimolar glyoxylate or formate was present during photosynthesis, the fructose bisphosphate pool in the chloroplasts doubled. Thus, glyoxylate appeared to inhibit the regeneration of ribulose bisphosphate, but not its utilization. The fixation of CO2 by intact chloroplasts was inhibited by salts of several weak acids, and the inhibition was more severe at pH 6.0 than at pH 8.0. At pH 6.0, glyoxylate inhibited CO2 fixation by 50% at 50 micromolar, and glycolate caused 50% inhibition at 150 micromolar. This inhibition of CO2 fixation seems to be a general effect of salts of weak acids. Radioactive glyoxylate was reduced to glycolate by chloroplasts more rapidly in the light than in the dark. Glyoxylate reductase (NADP+) from intact chloroplast preparations had an apparent Km (glyoxylate) of 140 micromolar and a Vmax of 3 micromoles per minute per milligram chlorophyll. 相似文献
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Chloroplasts, isolated from protoplasts of the green alga, Chlorella ellipsoidea, were estimated to be 99% intact by the ferricyanide-reduction assay, and gave CO 2 and PGA-dependent rates of O 2 evolution of 64.5 to 150 micromoles per milligram of chlorophyll per hour, that is 30 to 70% of the photosynthetic activity of the parent cells. Intact chloroplasts showed no carbonic anhydrase activity, but it was detected in preparations of ruptured organelles. Rates of photosynthesis, measured in a closed system at pH 7.5, were twice the calculated rate of CO 2 supply from the uncatalyzed dehydration of HCO 3− indicating a direct uptake of bicarbonate by the intact chloroplasts. Mass spectrometric measurements of CO 2 depletion from the medium on the illumination of chloroplasts indicate the lack of an active CO 2 transport across the chloroplast envelope. 相似文献
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The presence of a nonspecific acid phosphatase which had high activity with 3-phosphoglycerate as substrate has recently been reported in Spinacia oleracea L. chloroplasts (Mulligan, Tolbert 1980 Plant Physiol 66: 1169-1173). The subcellular localization of this activity has been reinvestigated by differential centrifugation of spinach leaf homogenates. The fraction sedimenting at 1,200 g comprised mostly intact chloroplasts and contained more than half the chlorophyll but only 5% of the 3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase activity present in the homogenate. The fraction of the homogenate pelleting at 5,000 g contained broken chloroplasts and had considerable 3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase activity. Further purification of the 1,200 g pellet fraction on a Percoll step gradient yielded greater than 95% intact chloroplasts, yet the phosphatase activity was reduced more than 15-fold on a chlorophyll basis by this purification. When the intact chloroplast and cytoplasmic fractions of mesophyll protoplasts were separated by silicone oil filtering centrifugation, the chloroplast fraction contained more than 90% of the chlorophyll but had less than 12% of the 3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase activity. By contrast, more than 60% of the 2-phosphoglycolate phosphatase was recovered in this chloroplast fraction supporting previous evidence that this phosphatase is localized in the chloroplast stroma. It is concluded that 3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase activity is not localized in the chloroplast but that the activity present in chloroplast preparations results from contamination by acid phosphatase, which either binds to the thylakoid membranes during preparation or is present as some other contaminant in the preparation. Inasmuch as the enzyme acts on a broad range of substrates its presence in chloroplast preparations, particularly when the percentage of intact chloroplasts is low, could produce artifacts in metabolic studies such as measurement of phosphorylation. 相似文献
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Mesophyll protoplasts were isolated from the leaves of wheat and corn seedlings. After purification the protoplasts were judged to be free of contaminating proteases in the isolation enzymes based on specific activity of the proteases in comparison to leaf tissue and their response to inhibitors that “differentiated” between leaf and isolation enzyme proteases. Wheat protoplasts showed rates of photosynthesis of 95 to 100 micromoles O 2 per milligram chlorophyll per hour, while corn exhibited rates of 35 to 85 micromoles O 2 per milligram chlorophyll per hour, indicating the intactness of the chloroplasts within the protoplasts. These chloroplasts were isolated from the protoplasts using the procedure of Robinson and Walker (1979 Arch Biochem Biophys 196: 319-323). Yields of 91 and 82% intact chloroplasts were obtained from wheat and corn, respectively, based on the distribution of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase in wheat and NADP-malate dehydrogenase in corn. Vacuoles were obtained from the protoplasts using a modification of the techniques of Wagner and Siegelman (1975 Science 190: 1298-1299) and Saunders (1979 Plant Physiol 64: 74-78). The vacuoles were at least 98% free of protoplast contamination as determined by assaying for “marker” enzymes of chloroplasts, mitochondria, and endoplasmic reticulum. Assuming one vacuole per protoplast, the vacuoles contained 4% of the soluble protein of the protoplasts in wheat and 8% in corn. All the proteolytic activity associated with the degradation of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase in the protoplasts could be accounted for by that localized within the vacuoles. Although the isolated chloroplasts always retained about 13% of the proteolytic activity of the protoplasts, this could be accounted for by that which became associated with the chloroplasts during their isolation. 相似文献
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The enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase displayed near-maximal activity in isolated, intact barley ( Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Pennrad) mesophyll protoplasts. The carboxylase deactivated 40 to 50% in situ when protoplasts were dark-incubated 20 minutes in air-equilibrated solutions. Enzyme activity was fully restored after 1 to 2 minutes of light. Addition of 5 millimolar NaHCO 3 to the incubation medium prevented dark-inactivation of the carboxylase. There was no permanent CO 2-dependent activation of the protoplast carboxylase either in light or dark. Activation of the carboxylase from ruptured protoplasts was not increased significantly by in vitro preincubation with CO 2 and Mg 2+. In contrast to the enzyme in protoplasts, the carboxylase in intact barley chloroplasts was not fully reactivated by light at atmospheric CO 2 levels. The lag phase in carbon assimilation was not lengthened by dark-adapting protoplasts to low CO 2 demonstrating that light-activation of the carboxylase was not involved in photosynthetic induction. Irradiance response curves for reactivation of the the carboxylase and for CO 2 fixation by isolated barley protoplasts were similar. The above results show that there was a fully reversible light-activation of the carboxylase in isolated barley protoplasts at physiologically significant CO 2 levels. 相似文献
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A mass spectrometric method combining 16O/ 18O and 12C/ 13C isotopes was used to quantify the unidirectional fluxes of O 2 and CO 2 during a dark to light transition for guard cell protoplasts and mesophyll cell protoplasts of Commelina communis L. In darkness, O 2 uptake and CO 2 evolution were similar on a protein basis. Under light, guard cell protoplasts evolved O 2 (61 micromoles of O 2 per milligram of chlorophyll per hour) almost at the same rate as mesophyll cell protoplasts (73 micromoles of O 2 per milligram of chlorophyll per hour). However, carbon assimilation was totally different. In contrast with mesophyll cell protoplasts, guard cell protoplasts were able to fix CO 2 in darkness at a rate of 27 micromoles of CO 2 per milligram of chlorophyll per hour, which was increased by 50% in light. At the onset of light, a delay observed for guard cell protoplasts between O 2 evolution and CO 2 fixation and a time lag before the rate of saturation suggested a carbon metabolism based on phospho enolpyruvate carboxylase activity. Under light, CO 2 evolution by guard cell protoplasts was sharply decreased (37%), while O 2 uptake was slowly inhibited (14%). A control of mitochondrial activity by guard cell chloroplasts under light via redox equivalents and ATP transfer in the cytosol is discussed. From this study on protoplasts, we conclude that the energy produced at the chloroplast level under light is not totally used for CO 2 assimilation and may be dissipated for other purposes such as ion uptake. 相似文献
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The catalase activity of unwashed preparations containing intact spinach ( Spinacia oleracea L.) chloroplasts is inhibited both by cyanide and by azide at concentrations which also cause inhibition of photosynthetic CO 2- dependent O 2 evolution. Aminotriazole can also be used to inhibit this contaminant catalase, and in this case inhibition of catalase can be achieved at aminotriazole concentrations which have little effect on the rate of photosynthetic CO2 fixation. Aminotriazole may be used as a specific inhibitor of catalase in order to demonstrate inhibition of photosynthesis by added H2O2. It is therefore concluded that inhibition of photosynthesis by cyanide and azide does not necessarily result from inhibition of catalase in the chloroplast preparation, and that intact chloroplasts do not produce inhibitory concentrations of H2O2 under the best experimental conditions for CO2 fixation. 相似文献
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Chloroplasts isolated from synchronous cultures of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardii, SAG 11-32/b (−), fix CO 2 at rates between 25 and 50 micromoles per milligram chlorophyll per hour. The upper value is approximately half of the rate of the intact cell. During storage in the dark on ice, the chloroplast preparation loses 30 to 50% of its CO2 fixing capability per hour. Under reducing conditions (+ 1 millimolar dithiothreitol), this loss of activity is about twice as fast. The same reducing conditions stimulate CO2 fixation in the light. High concentrations of inorganic phosphate (>2 millimolar) inhibit CO2 fixation. This inhibition is overcome by the addition of glycerate 3-phosphate. It is concluded that chloroplasts from C. reinhardii possess a higher plant type phosphate translocator. With respect to dependency upon light intensity, pH and Mg2+ concentration, the results were similar to that reported for chloroplasts from higher plants. However, in contrast to higher plant chloroplasts, maximum CO2 fixation is observed at the relatively low osmotic concentration of 0.12 molar mannitol in the reaction buffer. 相似文献
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Isolated intact chloroplasts of Chlamydomonas reinhardii were found to catalyze photoreduction of CO 2 in the presence of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea when adapted under an atmosphere of H 2 demonstrating the association of a hydrogenase and anaerobic adaptation system with these plastids. The specific activity of photoreduction was approximately one third that detected in cells and protoplasts. Photoreduction was found to have a lower osmoticum optimum relative to aerobically maintained chloroplasts (50 millimolar versus 120 millimolar mannitol). 3-Phosphoglycerate (3-PGA) stimulated photoreduction up to a peak at 0.25 millimolar beyond which inhibition was observed. In the absence of 3-PGA, inorganic phosphate had no effect on photoreduction but in the presence of 3-PGA, inorganic phosphate also stimulated the reaction. Carbonyl cyanide- p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone and 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl- p-benzoquinone inhibited photoreduction but inhibition by the former could be partially overcome by exogenously added ATP. The intact plastid can also catalyze photoevolution of H 2 while lysed chloroplast extracts catalyzed the reduction of methyl viologen by H 2. Both reactions occurred at rates approximately one-third of those found in cells. The oxyhydrogen reaction in the presence or absence of CO 2 was not detected. 相似文献
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Intact mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts wee isolated from the NADP-malic enzyme type C 4 plants maize, sorghum (monocots), and Flaveria trinervia (dicot) using enzymic digestion and mechanical isolation techniques. Bundle sheath chloroplasts of this C 4 subgroup tend to be agranal and were previously reported to be deficient in photosystem II activity. However, following injection of intact bundle sheath chloroplasts into hypotonic medium, thylakoids had high Hill reaction activity, similar to that of mesophyll chloroplasts with the Hill oxidants dichlorophenolindophenol, p-benzoquinone, and ferricyanide (approximately 200 to 300 micromoles O 2 evolved per mg chlorophyll per hour). In comparison to that of mesophyll chloroplasts, the Hill reaction activity of bundle sheath chloroplasts of maize and sorghum was labile and lost activity during assay. Bundle sheath chloroplasts of maize also exhibited some capacity for 3-phosphoglycerate dependent O 2 evolution (29 to 58 micromoles O 2 evolved per milligram chlorophyll per hour). Both the mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts were equally effective in light dependent scavenging of hydrogen peroxide. The results suggest that both chloroplast types have noncyclic electron transport and the enzymology to reduce hydrogen peroxide to water. The activities of ascorbate peroxidase from these chloroplast types was consistent with their capacity to scavenge hydrogen peroxide. 相似文献
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A procedure is described for isolating and purifying mesophyll protoplasts and bundle sheath protoplasts of the C 4 plant Panicum miliaceum. Following enzymic digestion of leaf tissue, mesophyll protoplasts and bundle sheath protoplasts are released and purified by density centrifugation. The lower density of mesophyll protoplasts allowed rapid separation of the two protoplast types. Evidence for separation of mesophyll protoplasts and bundle sheath protoplasts (up to 95% purity) is provided from light microscopy (based on size difference in both chloroplasts and protoplasts), levels of marker enzymes in the preparations ( i.e. pyruvate, Pi dikinase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase for mesophyll and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase for bundle sheath), and differences in substrate-dependent O 2 evolution by chloroplasts isolated from protoplasts. 相似文献
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Purified mesophyll protoplasts from the C 4 plant Digitaria sanguinalis were used to prepare intact mesophyll chloroplasts with low cytoplasmic contamination. The procedure involved breakage of protoplasts, differential centrifugation, partition in a dextran-polyethylene glycol two-phase system, and Percoll density gradient centrifugation. The final chloroplast preparation contained about 80% intact chloroplasts with a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase contamination of 0.2–1% of the original protoplast activity, corresponding to 1–6 μmol 14CO 2 fixed/mg Chl h. The purified chloroplasts showed substrate-dependent oxygen evolution in the range of 40–150 μmol substrate reduced/mg Chl h, with phosphoglycerate or oxaloacetate as substrate. Both reactions were stimulated 1.5 fold by pyruvate and further by addition of the other substrate. These measurements indicated that phosphoglycerate reduction was limited by substrate transport across the chloroplast envelope. Without added substrate, the chloroplasts consumed oxygen via pseudo-cyclic electron transport in the light. Also this reaction was stimulated by pyruvate. Phosphoglycerate-dependent oxygen evolution was inhibited by P i and by phosphoenolpyruvate to about the same extent with purified chloroplasts, but only by P i with protoplast extracts. This suggests that phosphoglycerate, P i and phosphoenolpyruvate share a common carrier, similar to the P i-translocator in C 3 chloroplasts, and that the lack of inhibition obtained with phosphoenolpyruvate and unpurified chloroplasts is artefactual, possibly due to oxaloacetate formation from added phosphoenolpyruvate and concomitant stimulation of oxygen evolution by oxaloacetate reduction. Furthermore, the results suggest that phosphoenolpyruvate is transported with a K m similar to that of P i in C 4 mesophyll chloroplasts. 相似文献
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Chloroplasts from the cell wall mutant cw-15-2 of Chlamydomonas reinhardii were isolated by disruption of the cells in the Yeda press and fractionation through step gradients of Percoll. The resulting chloroplast fraction contained 80–85% intact chloroplasts. Electron micrographs of thin sections of the chloroplast fraction showed some cytoplasmic impurities, although almost no cytoplasmic ribosomes were detected by analysis of the ribosomal subunits.The isolated chloroplasts are active in photosynthetic O 2-evolution and CO 2-fixation, with the highest rates obtained in the presence of ATP.The chloroplast fraction also showed high rates of light-dependent in organello protein synthesis, with labelling of discrete chloroplast proteins known to be synthesized in the chloroplasts. 相似文献
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The effect of increasing assay medium sorbitol concentration from 0.33 to 1.0 molar on the photosynthetic reactions of intact and broken spinach ( Spinacia oleracea L. var. Long Standing Bloomsdale) chloroplasts was investigated by monitoring O 2 evolution supported by the addition of glyceric acid 3-phosphate (PGA), oxaloacetic acid (OAA), 2,5-dimethyl- p-benzoquinone, and 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol or as O 2 uptake with methyl viologen as acceptor. Uncoupled 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol-supported whole chain electron transport (photosystems I and II) was inhibited from the 0.33 molar rate by 14% and 48.6% at 0.67 and 1.0 molar sorbitol in the intact chloroplast and by only 0.4% and 25.0% in the broken chloroplast preparation. Whole chain electron flow from water to other oxidants (OAA, methyl viologen) was also inhibited at increased osmoticum in intact preparations while electron flow from water to methyl viologen, ferricyanide, and NADP in broken preparations did not demonstrate the osmotic response. Electron transport to 2,5-dimethyl-p-benzoquinone (photosystem II) from H2O and to methyl viologen (photosystem I) from 3,3′-diaminobenzidine were found to be unaffected by osmolarity in both intact and broken preparations. The stress response was more pronounced (26-38%) with PGA as substrate in the presence of 0.67 molar sorbitol than the inhibition found with uncoupled and coupled linear electron flow. In addition, substrate availability and ATP generated by cyclic photophosphorylation evaluated by addition of Antimycin A were found not to be mediating the full osmotic inhibition of PGA-supported O2 evolution. In a reconstituted (thylakoids plus stromal protein) chloroplast system to which a substrate level of PGA was added, O2 evolution was only slightly (7.8%) inhibited by increased osmolarity (0.33-0.67 molar sorbitol) indicating that the level of osmotic inhibition above that contributed by adverse effects on electron flow can be attributed to the functioning of the photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle within the intact chloroplasts. 相似文献
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Cells of Dunaliella tertiolecta from the log phase of growth were broken by rapid extrusion at low pressure through a Yeda press and the chloroplasts were isolated by centrifugation through a Percoll gradient. Osmolarity of the growth media, the suspending media, and the Percoll gradient was kept identical to minimize change in chloroplast volume and mitochondrial entrapment. The isolated intact chloroplasts were obtained in a 30 to 50% yield based on chlorophyll and were stable to washing with buffered medium. Isolated chloroplast yield and purity was dependent on cell culture condition; a cycle of 16 hours light and 8 hours dark with continuous high CO 2 was optimum. Isolated chloroplasts were about 90% intact by microscopic examination, ferricyanide-dependent O 2 evolution, and the distribution of four stromal enzymes. Enzymes associated with glycolate metabolism were not in the chloroplast fraction. The isolated chloroplasts with 10 millimolar bicarbonate evolved 24 micromoles of O 2 and fixed 21 micromoles of CO 2 per hour per milligram of chlorophyll, which rates were about one-third of those by whole cells. The inhibition of oxygen evolution by 10 millimolar phosphate was reversed by P-glycerate. Whole chloroplasts were also isolated from cells adapted to low CO 2 in air for 24 hours. On low CO 2 the cells excreted more gelatinous material, which had to be removed with additional washing of the cells, before it was possible to obtain good chloroplast preparations. 相似文献
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Photosynthetically-active protoplasts isolated from isogenic sets of diploid-tetraploid and tetraploid-octoploid alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) leaves were used to investigate the consequences of polyploidization on several aspects related to photosynthesis at the cellular level. Protoplasts from the tetraploid population contained twice the amount of DNA, ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBPCase), chlorophyll (Chl), and chloroplasts per cell compared to protoplasts from the diploid population. Although protoplasts from the octoploid population contained nearly twice the number of chloroplasts and amount of Chl per cell as tetraploid protoplasts, the amount of DNA and RuBPCase per octoploid cell was only 50% higher than in protoplasts from the tetraploid population. The rate of CO 2-dependent O 2 evolution in protoplasts nearly doubled with an increase in ploidy from the diploid to tetraploid level, but increased only 67% with an increase in ploidy from the tetraploid to octoploid level. Whereas leaves and protoplasts had similar increases in RuBPCase, DNA, and Chl with increase in ploidy level, it was concluded that increased cell volume rather than increased cell number per leaf is responsible for the increase in leaf size with ploidy. 相似文献
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Externally added quercetin (100 micromolar) was oxidized by intact spinach chloroplasts at a rate of 30 micromoles per mg chlorophyll per hour in the presence of 100 micromolar H 2O 2. The oxidation rate was increased by about 20% in a hypotonic reaction mixture. The thylakoid fraction also oxidized the flavonol in the presence of H 2O 2, and the rate was about 25% of that by intact chloroplasts. The oxidation of quercetin was inhibited by KCN and NaN 3. Ascorbate, which permeates slowly across chloroplast envelope, only slightly suppressed the initial rate of quercetin oxidation by intact chloroplasts, while the oxidation by ruptured chloroplasts was suppressed by ascorbate by about 60%. Quercetin glycosides, quercitrin and rutin, were also oxidized by chloroplasts in the presence of H 2O 2. These results suggest that flavonols are oxidized by peroxidase-like activity in chloroplasts and that externally added flavonols can permeate into the stroma through the envelope of intact chloroplasts. 相似文献
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