Hill Reaction, Hydrogen Peroxide Scavenging, and Ascorbate Peroxidase Activity of Mesophyll and Bundle Sheath Chloroplasts of NADP-Malic Enzyme Type C4 Species 1
AUTOR(ES)
Nakano, Yoshiyuki
RESUMO
Intact mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts wee isolated from the NADP-malic enzyme type C4 plants maize, sorghum (monocots), and Flaveria trinervia (dicot) using enzymic digestion and mechanical isolation techniques. Bundle sheath chloroplasts of this C4 subgroup tend to be agranal and were previously reported to be deficient in photosystem II activity. However, following injection of intact bundle sheath chloroplasts into hypotonic medium, thylakoids had high Hill reaction activity, similar to that of mesophyll chloroplasts with the Hill oxidants dichlorophenolindophenol, p-benzoquinone, and ferricyanide (approximately 200 to 300 micromoles O2 evolved per mg chlorophyll per hour). In comparison to that of mesophyll chloroplasts, the Hill reaction activity of bundle sheath chloroplasts of maize and sorghum was labile and lost activity during assay. Bundle sheath chloroplasts of maize also exhibited some capacity for 3-phosphoglycerate dependent O2 evolution (29 to 58 micromoles O2 evolved per milligram chlorophyll per hour). Both the mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts were equally effective in light dependent scavenging of hydrogen peroxide. The results suggest that both chloroplast types have noncyclic electron transport and the enzymology to reduce hydrogen peroxide to water. The activities of ascorbate peroxidase from these chloroplast types was consistent with their capacity to scavenge hydrogen peroxide.
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