SUPEROXIDE REDUCTION AS A MECHANISM OF ASCORBATE-STIMULATED OXYGEN-UPTAKE BY ISOLATED CHLOROPLASTS
SUPEROXIDE REDUCTION AS A MECHANISM OF ASCORBATE-STIMULATED OXYGEN-UPTAKE BY ISOLATED CHLOROPLASTS
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-291x(73)91016-4
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
HALL, DO
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作者:
ALLEN, JF;HALL, DO
Addition of 1m M ascorbate to isolated chloroplasts with methyl viologen (MV) as electron acceptor trebled the rate of oxygen uptake and decreased the ADP O ratio to a third of that with no ascorbate present. These effects of ascorbate were reversed by superoxide dismutase (SOD), which in the absence of ascorbate had little effect on O 2 uptake or ADP O ratio. A chloroplast-associated SOD activity equivalent to 500 units/mg chlorophyll was detected. The effects of ascorbate and SOD on O 2 uptake were similar in both coupled and uncoupled chloroplasts. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that ascorbate stimulates O 2 uptake by reduction of superoxide, which is formed by autoxidation of the added electron acceptor (MV), and which dismutates in the absence of ascorbate. Ascorbate does not seem to stimulate O 2 uptake by replacing water as the photosystem II donor.