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Metabolism and Enzymology

A New Chloroplast Protein Is Induced by Growth on Low CO₂ in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii¹

Department of Botany, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803

The biosynthesis of a 36 kilodalton polypeptide of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was induced by photoautotrophic growth on low CO₂. Fractionation studies using the cell-wall-deficient strain of C. reinhardtii, CC-400, showed that this polypeptide was different from the low CO₂-induced periplasmic carbonic anhydrase. In addition, the 36 kilodalton polypeptide was found to be localized in intact chloroplasts isolated from low CO₂-adapting cultures. This protein may, in part, account for the different inorganic carbon uptake characteristics observed in chloroplasts isolated from high and low CO₂-grown C. reinhardtii cells.