Photosynthetic CO2 fixation and ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase activity of Nostoc sp. strain UCD 7801 in symbiotic association with Anthoceros punctatus.
AUTOR(ES)
Steinberg, N A
RESUMO
The cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain UCD 7801, immediately after separation from pure cultures of a reconstituted symbiotic association with the bryophyte Anthoceros punctatus, exhibited a rate of light-dependent CO2 fixation that was eightfold lower than that measured in the free-living growth state. Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBPC/O) specific activity was also eightfold lower in cell extracts of symbiotic strain 7801 relative to that in free-living cultures. The in vitro activity from symbiotic strain 7801 could not be increased by incubation under the standard RuBPC/O activation conditions. Polyclonal antibodies against the RuBPC/O large subunit were used in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to determine that RuBPC/O accounted for 4.3 and 5.2% of the total protein in cell extracts of strain 7801 grown in symbiotic and free-living states, respectively. The results imply that the regulation of RuBPC/O activity in the symbiotic growth state is by a posttranslational mechanism rather than by an alteration in RuBPC/O protein synthesis. The amount of carboxyarabinitol bisphosphate required to irreversibly inhibit RuBPC/O activity of sybiotic cell extracts was 80% of that required for extracts of free-living cultures. This result indicates that any covalent modification of RuBPC/O in symbiotically associated Nostoc cells did not interfere with the ribulose bisphosphate binding site, since inactive enzyme also bound carboxyarabinitol bisphosphate.
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