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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 101, Issue 3 891-897, Copyright © 1993 by American Society of Plant Biologists

METABOLISM AND ENZYMOLOGY

Regulatory Phosphorylation of C4 Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase (A Cardinal Event Influencing the Photosynthesis Rate in Sorghum and Maize)

N. Bakrim, J. L. Prioul, E. Deleens, J. P. Rocher, M. Arrio-Dupont, J. Vidal, P. Gadal and R. Chollet
Laboratoire de Physiologie Vegetale Moleculaire (N.B., M.A.-D., J.V., P.G.) and Laboratoire de Structure et Metabolisme des Plantes (J.-L.P., E.D., J.-P.R.), URA Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique D 1128, Universite de Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay, Batiment 430, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

C4 leaf phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC; EC 4.1.1.31) is subject to a day/night regulatory phosphorylation cycle. By using the cytoplasmic protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide (CHX), we previously reported that the reversible in vivo light activation of the C4 PEPC protein-serine kinase requires protein synthesis. In the present leaf gas-exchange study, we have examined how and to what extent the CHX-induced inhibition of PEPC protein kinase activity/PEPC phosphorylation in the light influences C4 photosynthesis. Detached Sorghum vulgare and maize (Zea mays) leaves fed 10 [mu]M CHX showed a gradual but marked decrease in photosynthetic CO2 assimilation capacity. A series of control experiments designed to assess deleterious secondary effects of the inhibitor established that this reduction in C4 leaf CO2 assimilation was not due to (a) an increased stomatal resistance to CO2 diffusion, (b) a decrease in the activation state of other photoactivated C4 cycle enzymes, and (c) a perturbation of the Benson-Calvin C3 cycle, as evidenced by the absence of an inhibitory effect of CHX on leaf photosynthesis by a C3 grass (Triticum aestivum). It is notable that the CHX-induced decrease in CO2 assimilation by illuminated Sorghum leaves was highly correlated with a decrease in the apparent phosphorylation status of PEPC and a concomitant change in carbon isotope discrimination consistent with a shift from a C4 to a C3 mode of leaf CO2 fixation. These collective findings indicate that the light-dependent activation of the PEPC protein-serine kinase and the resulting phosphorylation of serine-8 or serine-15 in Sorghum or maize PEPC, respectively, are fundamental regulatory events that influence leaf C4 photosynthesis in vivo.


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