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Metabolism and Enzymology

Uptake of Inorganic Carbon by Isolated Chloroplasts from Air-Adapted Dunaliella¹

Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Neither Dunaliella cells grown with 5% CO₂ nor their isolated chloroplasts had a CO₂ concentrating mechanism. These cells primarily utilized CO₂ from the medium because the K_(0.5) (HCO₃^–) increase from 57 micromolar at pH 7.0 to 1489 micromolar at pH 8.5, where as the K_(0.5) CO₂ was about 12 micromolar over the pH range. After air adaptation for 24 hours in light, a CO₂ concentrating mechanism was present that decreased the K_0.5 (CO₂) to about 0.5 micromolar and K_0.5 (HCO₃^–) to 11 micromolar at pH 8. These K_0.5 values suggest that air-adapted cells preferentially concentrated CO₂ but could also use HCO₃^– from the medium. Chloroplasts isolated from air-adapted cells had a K_(0.5) for total inorganic carbon of less than 10 micromolar compared to 130 micromolar for chloroplasts from cells grown on high CO₂. Chloroplasts from air-adapted cells, but not CO₂-grown cells, concentrate inorganic carbon internally to 1 millimolar in 60 seconds from 240 micromolar in the medium. Maximum uptake rates occurred after preillumination of 45 seconds to 3 minutes. The CO₂ concentrating mechanism by chloroplasts from air-adapted cells was light dependent and inhibited by 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) or flurocarbonyl-cyamidephenylhydrazone (FCCP). Phenazine-methosulfate at 10 micromolar to provide cyclic phosphorylation partially reversed the inhibition by DCMU but not by FCCP. One to 0.1 millimolar vanadate, an inhibitor of plasma membrane ATPase, inhibited inorganic carbon accumulation by isolated chloroplasts. Vanadate had no effect on CO₂ concentration by whole cells, as it did not readily cross the cell plasmalemma. Addition of external ATP to the isolated chloroplast only slightly stimulated inorganic carbon uptake and did not reverse vanadate inhibition by more than 25%. These results are consistent with a CO₂ concentrating mechanism in Dunaliella cells which consists in part of an inorganic carbon transporter at the chloroplast envelope that is energized by ATP from photosynthetic electron transport.

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