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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 115, Issue 4 1569-1580, Copyright © 1997 by American Society of Plant Biologists
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BIOCHEMISTRY AND ENZYMOLOGY |
Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase Activase Deficiency Delays Senescence of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase but Progressively Impairs Its Catalysis during Tobacco Leaf Development
Z. He, S. von Caemmerer, G. S. Hudson, G. D. Price, M. R. Badger and T. J. Andrews
Molecular Plant Physiology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv W38) plants with an antisense
gene directed against the mRNA of ribulose-1,5-biphosphate
carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) activase grew more slowly than wild-type
plants in a CO2-enriched atmosphere, but eventually attained the same
height and number of leaves. Compared with the wild type, the anti-activase
plants had reduced CO2 assimilation rates, normal contents of chlorophyll
and soluble leaf protein, and much higher Rubisco contents, particularly in
older leaves. Activase deficiency greatly delayed the usual developmental
decline in Rubisco content seen in wild-type leaves. This effect was much
less obvious in another transgenic tobacco with an antisense gene directed
against chloroplast-located glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, which
also had reduced photosynthetic rates and delayed development. Although
Rubisco carbamylation was reduced in the anti-activase plants, the
reduction was not sufficient to explain the reduced photosynthetic rate of
older anti-activase leaves. Instead, up to a 10-fold reduction in the
catalytic turnover rate of carbamylated Rubisco in vivo appeared to be the
main cause. Slower catalytic turnover by carbamylated Rubisco was
particularly obvious in high-CO2-grown leaves but was also detectable in
air-grown leaves. Rubisco activity measured immediately after rapid
extraction of anti-activase leaves was not much less than that predicted
from its degree of carbamylation, ruling out slow release of an inhibitor
from carbamylated sites as a major cause of the phenomenon. Nor could
substrate scarcity or product inhibition account for the impairment. We
conclude that activase must have a role in vivo, direct or indirect, in
promoting the activity of carbamylated Rubisco in addition to its role in
promoting carbamylation.
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