Apparent Catalase Synthesis in Sunflower Cotyledons during the Change in Microbody Function
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 62 (4) , 590-597
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.62.4.590
Abstract
Density-labeling with 10 mM K15NO3/70% 2H2O was used to investigate catalase synthesis in different developmental stages of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) cotyledons. A mathematical approach is introduced for the quantitative evaluation of the density-labeling data. The method allows, in the presence of preexisting enzyme activity, calculation of this synthesized activity (apparent enzyme synthesis) which results from the balance between actual enzyme synthesis and the degradation of newly synthesized enzyme at a given time. During greening of the cotyledons, when the catalase activity declines and the population of leaf peroxisomes is formed, the apparent catalase synthesis is lower than, or at best equal to, that occurring during a developmental stage when the leaf peroxisome population is established and catalase synthesis and degradation of total catalase are in equilibrium. In fatty cotyledons, there apparently is formation of the leaf peroxisomes by transformation of the glyoxysomes rather than by de novo synthesis.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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