Tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in greening etiolated barley seedlings |
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Authors: | A. Nasrulhaq-Boyce Owen T.G. Jones |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, U.K. |
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Abstract: | Allyl isopropylacetamide (AIA) does not stimulate porphyrin biosynthesis in greening barley; AIA inhibits the synthesis of 5-aminolaevulinate (ALA) in plants and does not overcome the repression of ALA-synthetase. This indicates that the ALA synthesis system of green plants is regulated differently from ALA synthetase of mammalian systems. Laevulinic acid (LA) inhibited the biosynthesis of tetrapyrrole pigments in greening barley and diminished the insertion of 55Fe into extractable protohaem, confirming that haem was synthesized at a time of little net increase in protohaem. ALA feeding increased iron incorporation into protohaem without increasing either extractable protohaem or cytochromes b and f. Since ALA feeding greatly increased the protochlorophyllide content of darkgrown plants and subsequent chlorophyll levels in the light, the regulation of haem pigment synthesis in plants occurs after protoporphyrin and protohaem synthesis and is likely to involve the turnover of protohaem produced in excess of haem protein requirements. |
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Keywords: | Gramineae greening barley tetrapyrrole biosynthesis haem biosynthesis laevulinic acid inhibition. |
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