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Metabolism and Enzymology

Purification and Properties of Mesophyll and Bundle Sheath Cell -Glucan Phosphorylases from Zea mays L. ¹

Equivalence of the Enzymes with the Cytosol and Plastid Phosphorylases from Spinach

Institute of Plant Physiology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology, Free University of Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 12-16a, D-12000 Berlin 33 (West)

Two major -glucan phosphorylases (I and II) from leaves of the C₄ plant corn (Zea mays L.) were previously shown to be compartmented in mesophyll and bundle sheath cells, respectively (C Mateyka, C Schnarrenberger 1984 Plant Sci Lett 36: 119-123). The two enzymes were separated by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography on immobilized starch, according to published procedures, as developed for the cytosol and chloroplast phosphorylase from the C₃ plant spinach. The two -glucan phosphorylases have their pH optimum at pH 7. The specificity for polyglucans was similar for soluble starch and amylopectin, however, differed for glycogen (K_m = 16 micrograms per milliliter for the mesophyll cell and 250 micrograms per milliliter for the bundle sheath cell phosphorylase). Maltose, maltotriose, and maltotetraose were not cleaved by either phosphorylase. If maltopentaose was used as substrate, the rate was about twice as high with the bundle sheath cell phosphorylase, than with the mesophyll cell phosphorylase. The phosphorylase I showed a molecular mass of 174 kilodaltons and the phosphorylase II of 195 kilodaltons for the native enzyme and of 87 and of 53 kilodaltons for the SDS-treated proteins, respectively. Specific antisera raised against mesophyll cell phosphorylase from corn leaves and against chloroplast phosphorylase from spinach leaves implied high similarity for the cytosol phosphorylase of the C₃ plant spinach with mesophyll cell phosphorylase of the C₄ plant corn and of chloroplast phosphorylase of spinach with the bundle sheath cell phosphorylase of corn.

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