Nitrate Reductase Activity and Nitrite in Native Pyrenoids Purified from the Green Alga Bryopsis maxima |
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Authors: | Okabe Yasuyuki; Okada Mitsumasa |
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Institution: | Department of Biomolecular Science, Faculty of Science, Toho University 2-2-1 Miyama, Funabashi, Chiba, 274 Japan |
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Abstract: | The native, starchless pyrenoids purified from Bryopsis maximashowed NADH-nitrate reductase NR, EC 1.6.6.1
EC]
] activity andcontained nitrite. The specific activity of NR was 0.024 µmolNO2 formed per min per mg of protein. The value was 80 timesgreater than that in the crude extract of chloroplasts. Theamount of nitrite in the pyrenoids was 2.37 µmol per mgof protein, showing that nitrite was concentrated by a factorof 66 times. These results suggest a physiological role forpyrenoids in the assimilation of nitrate. (Received November 15, 1989; Accepted February 27, 1990) |
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