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Inhibition of Ribulose 1,5-Diphosphate Carboxylase by 6-Phosphogluconate ¹

^a Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

6-Phosphogluconate is a much more effective inhibitor of the photosynthetic carboxylation enzyme, ribulose-1, 5-diphosphate carboxylase, than other sugar phosphates and sugar acids of the reductive and oxidative pentose phosphate cycles. The inhibition appears to be noncompetitive with ribulose 1,5-diphosphate. Since 6-phosphogluconate is unique to the oxidative cycle and inhibits at concentrations comparable to those found in vivo, it is proposed that its inhibition of the carboxylase may be a regulatory factor. If so, it would operate during darkness as a different control factor from those factors postulated to activate the carboxylase during photosynthesis.