Purification and Physiological role of the adenylate cyclase in Dunaliella

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1) Growth and Photosynthetic activity in Dunaliella under stress.Signal transduction system including adenylate cyclase (AC) is supposed to be responsible for some metabolic changes in Dunaliella. The alga showed following changes according to salt stress, aging and high light.・In the medium containing 10% NaCl, the maximum growth was observed in ten days. In that containing 25% NaCl, slow growth was observed during 30 days. Maximum cell numbers per ml of medium was about 20 times larger in the former medium.・During aging, decrease of chlorophyll content and accumulation of carotenoids, especiaslly beta-carotenoids were obseved.・Chlorophyll a/b ratio increased from 1.8 to 3.5 when light-intensity for the culture increased. The change of the efficincy for the energy transfer from carotenoids and chl b to chl a was also observed.2) AC in Dunaliella showed remarkable affected by divalent cations. No activity was observed in the absence of Mg and the activity was fully enhanced at 5mM of Mg. Ca showed strong inhibition and 50% inhibition occurred at 50-100uM.3) Membrane fraction was treated by 1M NaCl, and solubilized AC was purified by gel filtration followed by ion change chromatography. Molecular wight of whole enzyme was 452kDa and that of the subunit was estimated 116kDa by SDS-PAGE.