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Enzyme Activities of the Carbon Reduction Cycle in Some Photosynthetic Organisms ¹

^a Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154

Profile analyses of the enzymes comprising the photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle have been performed in extracts of dark grown and greening Euglena gracilis var. bacillaris. Chlorella pyrenoidosa grown photoautotrophically, in the light with glucose or in the dark with glucose, Tolypothrix tenuis, Chromatium and leaves of spinach. Amounts of activity are compared with the level of photosynthetic CO₂ fixation. Only in Chromatium were all enzyme activities sufficient to support the in vivo rate of CO₂ fixation. In organisms other than Chromatium, some enzymes and particularly fructose 1,6-phosphatase and ribulose 1.5-diphosphate carboxylase appeared to be present in insufficient amounts to support the photosynthetic rate of the intact cell. Developmental studies with Euglena and growth studies with Chlorella led to the conclusion that these enzymes were associated with the cycle. Suppression of CO₂ fixation in heterotrophically grown Chlorella was accompanied by a striking decrease in the same enzymes whose activities increased in greening Euglena.

¹ This research was generously supported by the United States Atomic Energy Commission under grant AT (30-1) 3447.

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