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Enzymic Determination of Metabolites in the Subcellular Compartments of Spinach Protoplasts ¹

Institut für Physiologische Chemie und Physikalische Biochemie der Universität München, Goethestraße 33, 8000 München 2, Federal Republic of Germany

A method for determining the subcellular metabolite levels in spinach protoplasts is described. The protoplasts are disrupted by centrifugation through a nylon net, releasing intact chloroplasts which pass through a layer of silicone oil into perchloric acid while the remaining cytoplasmic components remain over the oil and are simultaneously quenched as acid is centrifuged into them. Cross-contamination is measured and corrected for using ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate as a chloroplastic marker and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase as a cytoplasmic marker. A method for separation of intact protoplasts from the medium by silicone oil centrifugation is described, which allows a correction to be made for the effect of free chloroplasts and broken protoplasts. Methods for inhibiting chloroplast photosynthesis, without inhibiting protoplasts, are presented. It is demonstrated that ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate, ATP, ADP, AMP, inorganic phosphate, hexose phosphate, triose phosphate, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, and 3-phosphoglycerate can be reliably recovered in the subcellular fractions isolated from protoplasts, and measured by enzymic substrate analysis.

¹ This work has been supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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