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Plant Physiology 75:425-430 (1984)
© 1984 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Lack of ATP Requirement for Light Stimulation of Glycerate Transport into Intact Isolated Chloroplasts

Simon P. Robinson

CSIRO Division of Horticultural Research, GPO Box 350, Adelaide 5001, Australia

Light increased the initial rate and the extent of glycerate uptake by intact isolated chloroplasts. Half-maximum stimulation occurred with 10 to 20 watts per square meter of red light. Preillumination of chloroplasts enhanced uptake in a subsequent dark period. The light effect was abolished by DCMU and also by uncoupling agents such as nigericin and carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenyl hydrazone.

Arsenate and phlorizin only inhibited glycerate uptake to the extent that metabolism in the chloroplast was decreased by insufficient ATP. The concentration of glycerate accumulated in the chloroplast stroma was not significantly decreased. Chloroplasts isolated from young pea shoots (Pisum sativum, L. cv Massey Gem) were depleted of ATP by incubation with inorganic pyrophosphate or with ATP analogs. These treatments also decreased metabolism of glycerate but the actual concentration of glycerate accumulated in the chloroplast stroma was not decreased.

The results indicate that glycerate uptake is driven by ion gradients established across the chloroplast envelope in the light. ATP is not involved in the transport of glycerate into chloroplasts, being required only for the subsequent metabolism of glycerate in the chloroplast stroma. It is proposed that glycerate transport may be coupled to the proton gradient established in the light across the chloroplast envelope.






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