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Purification, Characterization, and Fractionation of the -Aminolevulinic Acid Synthesizing Enzymes from Light-Grown Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cells ¹

Department of Botany, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, Department of Physiology, Carlsberg Laboratory, Gamel Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Copenhagen, Denmark

The synthesis of -aminolevulinate from glutamate by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii membrane-free cell homogenates requires Mg²⁺, ATP, and NADPH as cofactors. The pH optimum is about 8.3. When analyzed by a Fractogel TSK gel filtration column the -aminolevulinate synthesizing enzymes, including glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase, elute with an apparent molecular weight of about 45,000. The enzymes obtained from the gel filtration column were separated into three fractions by affinity column chromatography. One fraction binds to heme-Sepharose, one to Blue Sepharose, while the enzyme converting the putative glutamate-1-semialdehyde to -aminolevulinic acid is retained by neither column. All three fractions are necessary for the conversion of glutamate to -aminolevulinate. The -aminolevulinate synthesizing enzymes from Chlamydomonas are sensitive to inhibition by heme but not sensitive to inhibition by protoporphyrin.

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