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Metabolism and Enzymology

Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration in the Intact Spinach Chloroplast ¹

Institute for Photobiology of Cells and Organelles, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254

Aerobic and anaerobic chloroplastic respiration was monitored by measuring ¹⁴CO₂ evolution from [¹⁴C]glucose in the darkened spinach (Spinacia oleracea) chloroplast and by estimating the conversion of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate to glycerate 3-phosphate in the darkened spinach chloroplast in air with O₂ or in N₂ with nitrite or oxaloacetate as electron acceptors. The pathway of ¹⁴CO₂ evolution from labeled glucose in the absence and presence of the inhibitors iodoacetamide and glycolate 2-phosphate under air or N₂ were those expected from the oxidative pentose phosphate cycle and glycolysis. Of the electron acceptors, O₂ was the best (2.4 nanomoles CO₂ per milligram chlorophyll per hour), followed by nitrite and oxaloacetate. With respect to glycerate 3-phosphate formation from fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, methylene blue increased the aerobic rate from 3.7 to 5.4 micromoles per milligram chlorophyll per hour. A rate of 4.8 micromoles per milligram chlorophyll per hour was observed under N₂ with nitrite and oxaloacetate.

¹ Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy DE-AC02-76-ERO 3231 and the National Science Foundation PCM-83-04147