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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 113, Issue 1 243-248, Copyright © 1997 by American Society of Plant Biologists
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BIOCHEMISTRY AND ENZYMOLOGY |
Heat Denaturation Profiles of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase (Rubisco) and Rubisco Activase and the Inability of Rubisco Activase to Restore Activity of Heat-Denatured Rubisco
N. A. Eckardt and A. R. Portis Jr
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (N.A.E.)
We compared the heat-denaturation profiles of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate
carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and Rubisco activase and further examined
the ability of Rubisco activase to restore the activity of heat-denatured
Rubisco originally reported (E. Sanchez de Jimenez, L. Medrano, and E.
Martinez-Barajas [1995] Biochemistry 34: 2826-2831). Rubisco was
heat-treated in both the carbamylated and uncarbamylated forms and in the
presence and absence of 10 mM dithiothreitol (DTT). Both forms were highly
resistant to heat denaturation and further protection was gained in the
presence of DTT. A 50% loss in total activity occurred after 1 h at 57.5
and 55.2[deg]C for uncarbamylated Rubisco and at 60.2 and 59.6[deg]C for
carbamylated Rubisco, in each case with and without DTT, respectively. In
contrast, Rubisco activase lost 50% activity after only 5 min at 33[deg]C
and the loss in activity was not affected by the presence of Rubisco. When
Rubisco, heat-denatured to various extents, was incubated at room
temperature with Rubisco activase or bovine serum albumin as a control,
Rubisco activase did not have a significant specific ability to restore
Rubisco activity. We conclude that Rubisco activase alone does not have the
ability to restore the activity of heat-denatured Rubisco and is unlikely
to protect or restore Rubisco activity from heat denaturation in vivo
because it is more heat-labile than Rubisco.
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