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Metabolism and Enzymology

Pathways of Fatty Acid Hydroperoxide Metabolism in Spinach Leaf Chloroplasts

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, State University Station, Fargo, North Dakota 58105, Metabolism and Radiation Research Laboratory, State University Station, Fargo, North Dakota 58105

The metabolism of 13-hydroperoxylinolenic acid was examined in protoplasts and homogenates prepared from mature leaves of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.). Chloroplast membranes were the principal site for metabolism of the compound by at least two highly hydrophobic enzyme systems, hydroperoxide lyase and hydroperoxide dehydrase, the new name for an enzyme system formerly known as hydroperoxide isomerase and hydroperoxide cyclase. Hydroperoxide lyase was most active above pH 7 and could be separated from hydroperoxide dehydrase by anion exchange chromatography. Hydroperoxide dehydrase, measured by the formation of both -ketol product and 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid, had its optimum activity in the range of pH 5 to 7. Lyase was more active than dehydrase activity when the enzymes were extracted by homogenization. The reverse was true when the enzyme activities were measured in protoplasts, which are isolated by gentle extraction methods. The variation in enzyme activity ratios with extraction methods suggests that hydroperoxide lyase is activated by plant injury and thus may function in a wound response. In the absence of injury, the normal pathway of fatty acid hydroperoxide metabolism is probably by hydroperoxide dehydrase activity. The molecular weights of both the lyase and dehydrase were approximately 220,000, as estimated by gel filtration.

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