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Metabolism and Enzymology

-Carotene Synthesis in Isolated Spinach Chloroplasts ¹

Its Tight Linkage to Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism

Botanisches Institut, Tieraerztliche Hochschule Hannover, Buenteweg 17 d, D 3000 Hannover 71, Federal Republic of Germany

Carefully isolated intact spinach chloroplasts virtually free of contamination of other organelles effectively form -carotene from NaH¹⁴CO₃ or [U-¹⁴C]-3-phosphoglycerate (PGA) under photosynthetic conditions. The photosynthate pool formed in chloroplasts from 1 to 2 millimolar [U-¹⁴C]-3-PGA or 3 to 6 millimolar NaH¹⁴CO₃ was fully sufficient to supply -carotene synthesis with intermediates for about 1 hour at maximal rates of about 20 nanomoles ¹⁴C incorporated per milligram chlorophyll per hour. Fatty acid synthesis remains, under these circumstances, in linear dependence to substrate concentrations with far lower activity. Isotopic dilution of the -carotene synthesis by adding unlabeled glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, dihydroxyacetone-P, 3-PGA, 2-PGA, phosphoenolpyruvate, pyruvate, respectively, may be interpreted as a direct substrate flow from photosynthetically fixed CO₂ to isopentenyl pyrophosphate synthesizing system. Unlabeled acetate did not dilute -carotene synthesis. Fatty acid synthesis acted similarly with unlabeled substrates; but it also was diluted by unlabeled acetate. These results indicate a tight linkage of photosynthetic carbon fixation and plastid isoprenoid synthesis.

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