3-Phosphoglycerate Phosphatase Activity in Chloroplast Preparations as a Result of Contamination by Acid Phosphatase
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- 31 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 70 (3) , 645-648
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.70.3.645
Abstract
The presence of a nonspecific acid phosphatase which had high activity with 3-phosphoglycerate as substrate has recently been reported in Spinacia oleracea L. chloroplasts (Mulligan, Tolbert 1980 Plant Physiol 66: 1169-1173). The subcellular localization of this activity has been reinvestigated by differential centrifugation of spinach leaf homogenates. The fraction sedimenting at 1,200g comprised mostly intact chloroplasts and contained more than half the chlorophyll but only 5% of the 3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase activity present in the homogenate. The fraction of the homogenate pelleting at 5,000g contained broken chloroplasts and had considerable 3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase activity. Further purification of the 1,200g pellet fraction on a Percoll step gradient yielded greater than 95% intact chloroplasts, yet the phosphatase activity was reduced more than 15-fold on a chlorophyll basis by this purification. When the intact chloroplast and cytoplasmic fractions of mesophyll protoplasts were separated by silicone oil filtering centrifugation, the chloroplast fraction contained more than 90% of the chlorophyll but had less than 12% of the 3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase activity. By contrast, more than 60% of the 2-phosphoglycolate phosphatase was recovered in this chloroplast fraction supporting previous evidence that this phosphatase is localized in the chloroplast stroma. It is concluded that 3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase activity is not localized in the chloroplast but that the activity present in chloroplast preparations results from contamination by acid phosphatase, which either binds to the thylakoid membranes during preparation or is present as some other contaminant in the preparation. Inasmuch as the enzyme acts on a broad range of substrates its presence in chloroplast preparations, particularly when the percentage of intact chloroplasts is low, could produce artifacts in metabolic studies such as measurement of phosphorylation.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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