Immunocytochemical Localization of Phosphoribulose Kinase in the Cyanelles of Cyanophora paradoxa and Glaucocystis nostochinearum1
AUTOR(ES)
Mangeney, Elisabeth
RESUMO
The distribution of phosphoribulose kinase (PRK) in the cyanelles of Cyanophora paradoxa Korschikoff and Glaucocystis nostochinearum Itzigsohn was studied by protein A-gold immunoelectron microscopy. In both endocyanomes, antiserum against PRK heavily labeled the thylakoid region of the cyanelles, whereas little or no label was present over the carboxysomes. Antiserum against ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase by contrast heavily labeled the carboxysomes of each endocyanome. In vitro studies of PRK distribution in cell-free extracts of C. paradoxa showed that 93% of the enzyme was in the soluble fraction. Quantitative immunoelectron microscopy showed that more than 99% of the PRK in the cyanelle of C. paradoxa was localized in the thylakoid region. We conclude that the carboxysomes of cyanelles like the carboxysomes of autotrophic prokaryotes and the pyrenoids of green algal chloroplasts do not contain phosphoribulose kinase.
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