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1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois 60680.
Abstract:
Several peaks of aldolase activity are found in the isoelectric focusing pattern of pea (Pisum sativum) leaf chloroplast extracts. One peak, separated by 0.5 pH unit from the major chloroplast aldolase peak, is found when cytoplasmic extracts are focused. The chloroplast and cytoplasmic enzymes have a pH 7.4 optimum with fructose 1,6-diphosphate. The Michaelis constant for fructose-1,6-diphosphate is 19 muM for the chloroplast, 21 muM for the cytoplasmic enzyme, and for sedoheptulose 1,7-diphosphate, 8 muM for the chloroplast enzyme, 18 muM for the cytoplasmic enzyme. Both enzymes are inhibited by d-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and by ribulose 1,5-diphosphate. The similarity in the catalytic properties of the isoenzymes suggests that both enzymes have an amphibolic role in carbon metabolism in the green leaf.
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