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. 1985 Aug;82(16):5370-4.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.82.16.5370.

Chlorophyll biosynthesis and assembly into chlorophyll-protein complexes in isolated developing chloroplasts

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Chlorophyll biosynthesis and assembly into chlorophyll-protein complexes in isolated developing chloroplasts

D Bhaya et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1985 Aug.

Abstract

Isolated developing plastids from greening cucumber cotyledons or from photoperiodically grown pea seedlings incorporated (14)C-labeled 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) into chlorophyll (Chl). Incorporation was light dependent, enhanced by S-adenosylmethionine, and linear for 1 hr. The in vitro rate of Chl synthesis from ALA was comparable to the in vivo rate of Chl accumulation. Levulinic acid and dioxoheptanoic acid strongly inhibited Chl synthesis but not plastid protein synthesis. Neither chloramphenicol nor spectinomycin affected Chl synthesis, although protein synthesis was strongly inhibited. Components of thylakoid membranes from plastids incubated with [(14)C]ALA were resolved by electrophoresis and then subjected to autoradiography. This work showed that (i) newly synthesized Chl was assembled into Chl-protein complexes and (ii) the inhibition of protein synthesis during the incubation did not alter the labeling pattern. Thus, there was no observable short-term coregulation between Chl synthesis (from ALA) and the synthesis of membrane proteins in isolated plastids.

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