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Subcellular Location of NADP⁺-Isocitrate Dehydrogenase in Pisum sativum Leaves ¹

Curtis V. Givan

Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, Department of Plant Biology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom NE1 7RU

The subcellular location of NADP⁺-isocitrate dehydrogenase was investigated by preparing protoplasts from leaves of pea seedlings. Washed protoplasts were gently lysed and the whole lysate separated on sucrose gradients by a rate-zonal centrifugation. Organelles were located by marker enzymes and chlorophyll analysis. Most of the NADP⁺-isocitrate dehydrogenase was in the soluble fraction. About 10% of the NADP⁺-isocitrate dehydrogenase was present in the chloroplasts as a partially latent enzyme. Less than 1% of the activity was found associated with the peroxisome fraction. NADP⁺-isocitrate dehydrogenase was partially characterized from highly purified chloroplasts isolated from shoot homogenates. The enzyme exhibited apparent K_m values of 11 micromolar (NADP⁺), 35 micromolar (isocitrate), 78 micromolar (Mn²⁺), 0.3 millimolar (Mg²⁺) and showed optimum activity at pH 8 to 8.5 with Mn²⁺ and 8.8 to 9.2 with Mg²⁺. The NADP⁺-isocitrate dehydrogenase activity previously claimed in the peroxisomes by other workers is probably due to isolation procedures and/or nonspecific association. The NADP⁺-isocitrate dehydrogenase activity in the chloroplasts might help supply -ketoglutarate for glutamate synthase action.

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