PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 105, Issue 1 133-139, Copyright © 1994 by American Society of Plant Biologists
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METABOLISM AND ENZYMOLOGY |
Identification of Intracellular Carbonic Anhydrase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with a Carbonic Anhydrase-Directed Photoaffinity Label
H. D. Husic and C. A. Marcus
Department of Chemistry, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania 18042-1782
A carbonic anhydrase (CA)-directed photoaffinity reagent, 125I-labeled
p-aminomethylbenzenesulfonamide-4-azidosalicylamide,was synthesized and
shown to derivatize periplasmic CA in the unicellular green alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The photoderivatization of purified C.
reinhardtii periplasmic CA or intact C. reinhardtii cells with the reagent
resulted in the modification of the large (37 kD) subunit of the enzyme.
Photoderivatization of proteins in lysed C. reinhardtii cells also resulted
in the specific labeling of a polypeptide of 30 kD. Centrifugation of the
cell extract prior to photoaffinity labeling revealed that the labeled
peptide was present predominantly in a particulate fraction. The
photoaffinity-labeled 30-kD polypeptide was not observed in extracts from a
mutant of C. reinhardtii that is believed to be deficient in an
intracellular form of CA. These results provide evidence that the 30-kD
polypeptide, which is photoaffinity labeled in lysed C. reinhardtii cells,
is an intracellular form of CA.