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. 1977 Jan;59(1):107-10.
doi: 10.1104/pp.59.1.107.

Heavy metal impurities impair the spectrophotometric assay of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase activity

V Walbot  1
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Heavy metal impurities impair the spectrophotometric assay of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase activity

V Walbot. Plant Physiol. 1977 Jan.

Abstract

An inverse relationship between the concentration of ribose 5-phosphate and apparent ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase activity was observed. The Lilley-Walker assay spectrophotometric assay, in which the 3-phosphoglyceric acid-dependent oxidation of reduced pyridine nucleotide is measured, is shown to be highly sensitive to inhibition by heavy metals. Analysis of the purity of reagents showed that ribose 5-phosphate is often contaminated with lead in sufficient quantity to impair the assay. This noncompetitive inhibition by ribose 5-phosphate is independent of the competitive inhibition of this substrate as an ATP sink as described by Slabas and Walker. A method for checking reagent purity and removing heavy metal contaminants is described.

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