ACTIVATION OF RIBULOSE-1,5-BISPHOSPHATE OXYGENASE - ROLE OF MG2+, CO2, AND PH
ACTIVATION OF RIBULOSE-1,5-BISPHOSPHATE OXYGENASE - ROLE OF MG2+, CO2, AND PH
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-9861(76)90565-8
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
LORIMER, GH
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作者:
BADGER, MR;LORIMER, GH
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate oxygenase [from spinach leaves] was activated by incubation with CO2 and Mg2+ and inactivated upon removal of CO2 and Mg2+ by gel filtration. The activity of the enzyme was dependent upon the preincubation concentrations of CO2 and Mg2+ and upon the preincubation pH. This indicated that activation involved the reversible formation of an equilibrium complex of enzyme-CO2-Mg. The kinetics of the activation process were the same as those described by G.H. Lorimer et al., for ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase [EC 4.1.1.39] and are consistent with the ordered reversible reaction sequence: .**GRAPHIC**. The activity of the enzyme, after preincubation at constant concentrations of CO2 and Mg2+, increased as the pH was raised, suggesting that CO2 reacted with an enzyme group having an alkaline pK. Since CO2 and O2 interact competitively at the catalytic site, the activation of ribulose bisphosphate oxygenase by CO2 and Mg2+ indicates that the CO2 molecule which takes part in the activation process is not the same as that which becomes fixed during the carboxylase reaction. The oxygenase and carboxylase functions of the catalytic site apparently are tightly coupled rather than independent of one another.