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Characterization of a Photosynthesizing Reconstituted Spinach Chloroplast Preparation ¹

REGULATION BY PRIMER, ADENYLATES, FERREDOXIN, AND PYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDES

Institute for Photobiology of Cells and Organelles, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254

A particulate preparation (MgP) capable of photosynthetic CO₂ assimilation without the addition of stromal protein was obtained by rupturing whole spinach (Spinacia oleracea var. America) chloroplasts in 15 millimolar MgCl₂ buffered with Tricine at pH 8.5. This CO₂ assimilation was dependent upon light, inorganic phosphate, ferredoxin, ADP, NAD or NADP, and primer. Excepting glycolate, the products of CO₂ fixation by MgP were similar to those found with whole chloroplasts.

Glycerate-3-phosphate (PGA), fructose-1, 6-bisphosphate (FBP), and ribose-5-phosphate (R5P) but not fructose-6-P (F6P) functioned as primers. Concentrations of PGA and FBP but not of R5P higher than 2 millimolar were inhibitory to CO₂ fixation. A lag of CO₂ fixation was observed with PGA and FBP but not with R5P. This lag as well as inhibition by NADP, ADP, and ATP in the FBP-primed preparation was eliminated by an equimolar mixture of FBP plus F6P indicating FBPase as the sensitive site. NADP, ADP, and ATP also blocked CO₂ fixation by the PGA-fortified preparation but inhibition was even more sensitive than that observed when FBP was added. Inhibition by AMP in the PGA and FBP-primed preparations was not affected by the addition of F6P. When R5P was the starting primer, inhibition of CO₂ fixation was relatively insensitive to the adenylates and NADP. In contrast to the parent whole chloroplast, CO₂ fixation by MgP was insensitive to high (5 millimolar) inorganic phosphate. Depending upon the ferredoxin concentration, NAD was as effective as NADP in supporting CO₂ fixation.

¹ Supported by National Science Foundation PMC 76-82157 and Department of Energy 10-EY-76-5-02-3231.