Antimycin A Stimulation of Rate-limiting Steps of Photosynthesis in Isolated Spinach Chloroplasts
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 49 (3), 411-416
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.49.3.411
Abstract
Changes in levels of metabolites in isolated spinach (Spinacia oleracea) chloroplasts seen upon addition of antimycin A suggest that the activities of enzymes mediating several regulated reactions are affected. Apparently, the presence of added antimycin A does not increase the level of CO(2) in the chloroplasts, nor does it stimulate CO(2) fixation by increasing the level of the carboxylation substrate, ribulose-1,5-diphosphate. Rather, it appears that antimycin A increases CO(2) fixation rate by indirectly stimulating the enzyme, ribulose-1,5-diphosphate carboxylase (E.C. 4.1.1.39), which mediates the carboxylation of ribulose-1,5-diphosphate to give 3-phosphoglycerate. Another rate-limiting enzyme of the reductive pentose phosphate cycle, hexose diphosphatase (E.C. 3.1.3.11), seems also to be stimulated. The synthesis of polysaccharides (mostly starch) seems also to be stimulated. These results are interpreted as indicating that antimycin A addition enhances the general activation of those enzymes which already are activated during photosynthesis but are inactive in the dark. The ratio of adenosine triphosphate-adenosine diphosphate under conditions of photosynthesis was only moderately decreased in the presence of antimycin A, perhaps accounting in part for an observed increase in accumulation of 3-phosphoglycerate as compared with dihydroxyacetone phosphate. No significant effect on movement of metabolites from the chloroplast to the medium was seen.Keywords
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