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Metabolism and Enzymology

Active CO₂ Transport by the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii¹

Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, D-6750 Kaiserslautern, Federal Republic of Germany

Mass spectrometric measurements of dissolved free ¹³CO₂ were used to monitor CO₂ uptake by air grown (low CO₂) cells and protoplasts from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In the presence of 50 micromolar dissolved inorganic carbon and light, protoplasts which had been washed free of external carbonic anhydrase reduced the ¹³CO₂ concentration in the medium to close to zero. Similar results were obtained with low CO₂ cells treated with 50 micromolar acetazolamide. Addition of carbonic anhydrase to protoplasts after the period of rapid CO₂ uptake revealed that the removal of CO₂ from the medium in the light was due to selective and active CO₂ transport rather than uptake of total dissolved inorganic carbon. In the light, low CO₂ cells and protoplasts incubated with carbonic anhydrase took up CO₂ at an apparently low rate which reflected the uptake of total dissolved inorganic carbon. No net CO₂ uptake occurred in the dark. Measurement of chlorophyll a fluorescence yield with low CO₂ cells and washed protoplasts showed that variable fluorescence was mainly influenced by energy quenching which was reciprocally related to photosynthetic activity with its highest value at the CO₂ compensation point. During the linear uptake of CO₂, low CO₂ cells and protoplasts incubated with carbonic anhydrase showed similar rates of net O₂ evolution (102 and 108 micromoles per milligram of chlorophyll per hour, respectively). The rate of net O₂ evolution (83 micromoles per milligram of chlorophyll per hour) with washed protoplasts was 20 to 30% lower during the period of rapid CO₂ uptake and decreased to a still lower value of 46 micromoles per milligram of chlorophyll per hour when most of the free CO₂ had been removed from the medium. The addition of carbonic anhydrase at this point resulted in more than a doubling of the rate of O₂ evolution. These results show low CO₂ cells of Chlamydomonas are able to transport both CO₂ and HCO₃^– but CO₂ is preferentially removed from the medium. The external carbonic anhydrase is important in the supply to the cells of free CO₂ from the dehydration of HCO₃^–.

¹ Supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

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