Regulation of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Synthesis in Developing Chloroplasts
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 90 (3) , 996-1002
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.90.3.996
Abstract
Intact chloroplasts isolated from greening cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. var Beit Alpha) cotyledons regenerated protochlorophyllide (Pchilide) in the dark with added cofactors from either exogenous glutamate or endogenous substrates. No other intermediates of the chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway accumulated. When inhibitors of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) dehydratase were added, the Pchlide that failed to form was replaced by an excessive amount of ALA. When greening seedlings were returned to the dark, ALA-synthesizing activity in the isolated chloroplasts decreased dramatically and recovered if the dark-treated seedlings were again exposed to continuous white light prior to chloroplast isolation. Both the decline and the recovery of ALA-synthesizing activity were complete in approximately 50 minutes. Changes in chloroplast structure during in vivo light to dark and dark to light transitions (as evidenced by electron microscopy) were much slower. Exposing isolated chloroplasts from dark-treated seedlings to short white flashes before incubation transformed nearly all the endogenous Pchlide, but hardly stimulated ALA synthesis, suggesting that Pchlide does not act as a feedback inhibitor on ALA synthesis. Chloroplasts isolated from dark-treated tissue did not form Pchlide from glutamate when incubated in the dark with added cofactors; moreover, the endogenous Pchlide did not turn over organello. However, these chloroplasts did synthesize Pchlide from added ALA at the normal rate and synthesized ALA from glutamate at a reduced, but still significant, rate. Mg chelation was not affected by in vivo dark treatment.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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