Photoactive Subunits of Protochlorophyll(ide) Holochrome

AUTOR(ES)

Henningsen, Knud W.

RESUMO

A stable, soluble, and photoactive protochlorophyll(ide) complex has been extracted from dark-grown barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) leaves with buffer containing saponin and glycerol. After ammonium sulfate precipitation, the redissolved pigment complex was partially purified by chromatography on Sephadex gels in the presence of saponin. With the assumptions that the pigment complex from barley has the same shape and density as the proteins used for calibration, its molecular weight is 63,000. Photoactive protochlorophyll(ide) complex isolated from bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and chromatographed by the same procedures has an aparent molecular weight of 100,000 or greater. No chromatographic separation of photoactive and inactive protochlorophyll(ide) complexes was observed. Photoconversion of protochlorophyll(ide) to chlorophyll(ide) did not change the chromatographic behavior of the pigment complex.

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