On the Participation of Phosphoribulokinase in the Light Regulation of CO2 Fixation 1

AUTOR(ES)

Flügge, U. Ingo

RESUMO

CO2 fixation by a suspension of isolated spinach chloroplasts was terminated by turning off the light, and changes of metabolite levels in the chloroplast stroma and the surrounding medium were assayed. Whereas CO2 fixation comes to a total stop within 15 seconds, a conversion of triose phosphates to heptose, hexose, and pentose monophosphates is found to occur for 1 to 2 minutes afterwards. It seems from these data that an inactivation of fructose and sedoheptulose bisphosphatases proceeds with a lag period. In contrast, the conversion of pentose monophosphates to ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate is inhibited immediately after the stop of illumination. As the stromal level of freely available ATP was not depleted under this condition, these data demonstrate that ribulose 5-phosphate kinase was very rapidly inactivated after darkening of the chloroplasts. Essentially, the same effect is also observed when CO2 fixation is partially inhibited by addition of moderate concentrations of m-chlorocarbonyl phenylhydrazone, partially uncoupling photophosphorylation. It appears from these results, that the activity of ribulose 5-phosphate kinase is not only regulated by light through the mediation of reduced carriers like thioredoxin but also by alternative parameters, e.g. stromal metabolite levels.

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