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Progress in Photosynthesis Research, 1987
Advances in Photosynthesis Research, 1984
Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, 1994
Page 1. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Bioi. 1994. 45:235-56 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Rev... more Page 1. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Bioi. 1994. 45:235-56 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved DIURNAL REGULATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON METABOLISM IN C3 PLANTS Donald R. Geiger and Jerome C. Servaites ...
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 1994
Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, 1994
Page 1. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Bioi. 1994. 45:235-56 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Rev... more Page 1. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Bioi. 1994. 45:235-56 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved DIURNAL REGULATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON METABOLISM IN C3 PLANTS Donald R. Geiger and Jerome C. Servaites ...
The Plant Cell, May 1, 2000
During photosynthesis, part of the fixed carbon is directed into the synthesis of transitory star... more During photosynthesis, part of the fixed carbon is directed into the synthesis of transitory starch, which serves as an intermediate carbon storage facility in chloroplasts. This transitory starch is mobilized during the night. Increasing evidence indicates that the main route of starch breakdown proceeds by way of hydrolytic enzymes and results in glucose formation. This pathway requires a glucose translocator to mediate the export of glucose from the chloroplasts. We have reexamined the kinetic properties of the plastidic glucose translocator and, using a differential labeling procedure, have identified the glucose translocator as a component of the inner envelope membrane. Peptide sequence information derived from this protein was used to isolate cDNA clones encoding a putative plastidic glucose translocator from spinach, potato, tobacco, Arabidopsis, and maize. We also present the molecular characterization of a candidate for a hexose transporter of the plastid envelope membrane. This transporter, initially characterized more than 20 years ago, is closely related to the mammalian glucose transporter GLUT family and differs from all other plant hexose transporters that have been characterized to date.
Plant Physiology, Apr 1, 1992
Sugar beet leaves (Beta vulgaris L.) contained up to five endoamylases, two exoamylases, and a si... more Sugar beet leaves (Beta vulgaris L.) contained up to five endoamylases, two exoamylases, and a single debranching enzyme. Four of the endoamylases and the debranching enzyme were present in the chloroplast. The chloroplastic starch-debranching enzyme and an apoplastic endoamylase were copurified from mature leaves of sugar beet by 35 to 50% ammonium sulfate precipitation and chromatography on diethylaminoethyl-Sephacryl, jB-cyclodextrin Sepharose 6B, and Sephadex G-150. The debranching enzyme, which was purified to homogeneity, had a molecular mass of 100 kilodaltons and a pH optimum of 5.5. It showed a high activity with pullulan as a substrate, low activity with soluble starch and amylopectin, and no activity with native starch grains isolated from sugar beet leaves. The endoamylase, which was partially purified, had a molecular mass of 43,000 kilodaltons, a pH optimum of 6.5, required calcium for activity and thermal stability, and showed an ability to hydrolyze nafive starch grains.
Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 2000
ABSTRACT Endogenous regulation of translocation and of carbon partitioning, major factors for int... more ABSTRACT Endogenous regulation of translocation and of carbon partitioning, major factors for integrating plant function, depend on diurnal regulation of starch synthesis and mobilization. Regulated diurnal cycling of transitory starch provides a steady carbon supply to sink growth and avoids potentially adverse high sugar levels. Carbon availability from starch affects development and alters carbon availability with respect to nitrogen. Along with sugar sensing, the level and turnover of starch are involved in endogenous regulation in response to carbohydrate status. Despite their key roles in plant metabolism, mechanisms for endogenous regulation of starch synthesis and degradation are not well characterized. Time course studies with labeled carbon reveal endogenous diurnal regulation of starch metabolism, by which sucrose synthesis from starch and newly-fixed carbon are mutually regulated in support of translocation at night, under low light, and during periods of water stress. Even under steady irradiance, which supports photosynthesis at midday levels, starch synthesis begins gradually and slows under an end-of-day circadian regulation that anticipates the dark period. Studies with Arabidopsis mutants identified two requisite components of starch mobilization, endoamylase, and glucose transport across the chloroplast inner envelope. Time course studies of carbohydrate levels and labeling studies of plant-level carbon metabolism in mutant plants with impaired ability to mobilize starch identified steps in starch mobilization that support diurnal regulation of translocation. Endogenously regulated exit of glucose across the chloroplast membrane appears to regulate starch mobilization.
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Methods in Enzymology, 1980
Response of Plants to Multiple Stresses, 1991
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 2001
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Plant Science Letters, 1984
Abstract Initial ribulose 1, 5-biphosphate carboxylase activity (that present in vivo) and total ... more Abstract Initial ribulose 1, 5-biphosphate carboxylase activity (that present in vivo) and total activity (that which is made available after complete activation by CO 2 and Mg 2+ were measured in extracts of field-grown soybean (Glycine max cv. Will) leaves collected over a ...
Plant and Cell Physiology
Excised leaves of a Ca-photosynthctic type, Hordeum uulgare, a Ca-type, Panicum ntiliaceum, and a... more Excised leaves of a Ca-photosynthctic type, Hordeum uulgare, a Ca-type, Panicum ntiliaceum, and an intermediate-type, Panicum milioides, were allowed to take up through their cut ends a 1 mu solution of butyl hydroxybutynoate (BHB), an irreversible inactivator of glycolate oxidase. After 30 to 60 min in BHB, extractable glycolate oxidase activity could not be detected in the distal quarter of the leaf blades. Following this pretreatment, recovery of 1aC-glycolate from laCOz incorporated in a 10 min period was nearly maximal for each of the three plant types. Labeled glycolate was 5l ]i of the total ' r+COz incorporated for the C3-species, 36)i, for the intermediate-species, and 27o/o for the Ca-species. Increased labeling of glycolate was compensated for primarily by decreased labeling of the neutral and basic lractions for the Ca and intermediate-type species. In the Ca-type, label decreased primarily in the neutral and insoluble fractions, but increased in the basic fraction. ...
Crop Photosynthesis, 1992
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 2008
Microcystins (MCYST) are among the most commonly detected toxins associated with cyanobacteria bl... more Microcystins (MCYST) are among the most commonly detected toxins associated with cyanobacteria blooms worldwide. Biological evidence of human exposure is needed in order to evaluate potential MCYST-associated health effects. MCYST are detectable in free and bound forms in human serum. We will provide an overview of selected methods to detect biological evidence of exposure in humans, and will identify some uncertainties associated with interpretation of results. 652 E.D. Hilborn et al.
Plant physiology, 1989
Photosynthesis rate, internal CO(2) concentration, starch, sucrose, and metabolite levels were me... more Photosynthesis rate, internal CO(2) concentration, starch, sucrose, and metabolite levels were measured in leaves of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) during a 14-h period of sinusoidal light, which simulated a natural light period. Photosynthesis rate closely followed increasing and decreasing light level. Chloroplast metabolite levels changed in a manner indicating differential activation of enzymes at different light levels. Starch levels declined during the first and last 2 hours of the photoperiod, but increased when photosynthesis rate was greater than 50% of maximal. Sucrose and sucrose phosphate synthase levels were constant during the photoperiod, which is consistent with a relatively steady rate of sucrose synthesis during the day as observed previously (BR Fondy et al. [1989] Plant Physiol 89: 396-402). When starch was being degraded, glucose 1-phosphate level was high and there was a large amount of glucose 6-phosphate above that in equilibrium with fructose 6-phosphate, whi...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1996
Autonomously replicating sequence (ARS)
Progress in Photosynthesis Research, 1987
Advances in Photosynthesis Research, 1984
Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, 1994
Page 1. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Bioi. 1994. 45:235-56 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Rev... more Page 1. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Bioi. 1994. 45:235-56 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved DIURNAL REGULATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON METABOLISM IN C3 PLANTS Donald R. Geiger and Jerome C. Servaites ...
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 1994
Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, 1994
Page 1. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Bioi. 1994. 45:235-56 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Rev... more Page 1. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Bioi. 1994. 45:235-56 Copyright © 1994 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved DIURNAL REGULATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON METABOLISM IN C3 PLANTS Donald R. Geiger and Jerome C. Servaites ...
The Plant Cell, May 1, 2000
During photosynthesis, part of the fixed carbon is directed into the synthesis of transitory star... more During photosynthesis, part of the fixed carbon is directed into the synthesis of transitory starch, which serves as an intermediate carbon storage facility in chloroplasts. This transitory starch is mobilized during the night. Increasing evidence indicates that the main route of starch breakdown proceeds by way of hydrolytic enzymes and results in glucose formation. This pathway requires a glucose translocator to mediate the export of glucose from the chloroplasts. We have reexamined the kinetic properties of the plastidic glucose translocator and, using a differential labeling procedure, have identified the glucose translocator as a component of the inner envelope membrane. Peptide sequence information derived from this protein was used to isolate cDNA clones encoding a putative plastidic glucose translocator from spinach, potato, tobacco, Arabidopsis, and maize. We also present the molecular characterization of a candidate for a hexose transporter of the plastid envelope membrane. This transporter, initially characterized more than 20 years ago, is closely related to the mammalian glucose transporter GLUT family and differs from all other plant hexose transporters that have been characterized to date.
Plant Physiology, Apr 1, 1992
Sugar beet leaves (Beta vulgaris L.) contained up to five endoamylases, two exoamylases, and a si... more Sugar beet leaves (Beta vulgaris L.) contained up to five endoamylases, two exoamylases, and a single debranching enzyme. Four of the endoamylases and the debranching enzyme were present in the chloroplast. The chloroplastic starch-debranching enzyme and an apoplastic endoamylase were copurified from mature leaves of sugar beet by 35 to 50% ammonium sulfate precipitation and chromatography on diethylaminoethyl-Sephacryl, jB-cyclodextrin Sepharose 6B, and Sephadex G-150. The debranching enzyme, which was purified to homogeneity, had a molecular mass of 100 kilodaltons and a pH optimum of 5.5. It showed a high activity with pullulan as a substrate, low activity with soluble starch and amylopectin, and no activity with native starch grains isolated from sugar beet leaves. The endoamylase, which was partially purified, had a molecular mass of 43,000 kilodaltons, a pH optimum of 6.5, required calcium for activity and thermal stability, and showed an ability to hydrolyze nafive starch grains.
Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 2000
ABSTRACT Endogenous regulation of translocation and of carbon partitioning, major factors for int... more ABSTRACT Endogenous regulation of translocation and of carbon partitioning, major factors for integrating plant function, depend on diurnal regulation of starch synthesis and mobilization. Regulated diurnal cycling of transitory starch provides a steady carbon supply to sink growth and avoids potentially adverse high sugar levels. Carbon availability from starch affects development and alters carbon availability with respect to nitrogen. Along with sugar sensing, the level and turnover of starch are involved in endogenous regulation in response to carbohydrate status. Despite their key roles in plant metabolism, mechanisms for endogenous regulation of starch synthesis and degradation are not well characterized. Time course studies with labeled carbon reveal endogenous diurnal regulation of starch metabolism, by which sucrose synthesis from starch and newly-fixed carbon are mutually regulated in support of translocation at night, under low light, and during periods of water stress. Even under steady irradiance, which supports photosynthesis at midday levels, starch synthesis begins gradually and slows under an end-of-day circadian regulation that anticipates the dark period. Studies with Arabidopsis mutants identified two requisite components of starch mobilization, endoamylase, and glucose transport across the chloroplast inner envelope. Time course studies of carbohydrate levels and labeling studies of plant-level carbon metabolism in mutant plants with impaired ability to mobilize starch identified steps in starch mobilization that support diurnal regulation of translocation. Endogenously regulated exit of glucose across the chloroplast membrane appears to regulate starch mobilization.
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Methods in Enzymology, 1980
Response of Plants to Multiple Stresses, 1991
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 2001
Skip to Main Content. ...
Plant Science Letters, 1984
Abstract Initial ribulose 1, 5-biphosphate carboxylase activity (that present in vivo) and total ... more Abstract Initial ribulose 1, 5-biphosphate carboxylase activity (that present in vivo) and total activity (that which is made available after complete activation by CO 2 and Mg 2+ were measured in extracts of field-grown soybean (Glycine max cv. Will) leaves collected over a ...
Plant and Cell Physiology
Excised leaves of a Ca-photosynthctic type, Hordeum uulgare, a Ca-type, Panicum ntiliaceum, and a... more Excised leaves of a Ca-photosynthctic type, Hordeum uulgare, a Ca-type, Panicum ntiliaceum, and an intermediate-type, Panicum milioides, were allowed to take up through their cut ends a 1 mu solution of butyl hydroxybutynoate (BHB), an irreversible inactivator of glycolate oxidase. After 30 to 60 min in BHB, extractable glycolate oxidase activity could not be detected in the distal quarter of the leaf blades. Following this pretreatment, recovery of 1aC-glycolate from laCOz incorporated in a 10 min period was nearly maximal for each of the three plant types. Labeled glycolate was 5l ]i of the total ' r+COz incorporated for the C3-species, 36)i, for the intermediate-species, and 27o/o for the Ca-species. Increased labeling of glycolate was compensated for primarily by decreased labeling of the neutral and basic lractions for the Ca and intermediate-type species. In the Ca-type, label decreased primarily in the neutral and insoluble fractions, but increased in the basic fraction. ...
Crop Photosynthesis, 1992
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 2008
Microcystins (MCYST) are among the most commonly detected toxins associated with cyanobacteria bl... more Microcystins (MCYST) are among the most commonly detected toxins associated with cyanobacteria blooms worldwide. Biological evidence of human exposure is needed in order to evaluate potential MCYST-associated health effects. MCYST are detectable in free and bound forms in human serum. We will provide an overview of selected methods to detect biological evidence of exposure in humans, and will identify some uncertainties associated with interpretation of results. 652 E.D. Hilborn et al.
Plant physiology, 1989
Photosynthesis rate, internal CO(2) concentration, starch, sucrose, and metabolite levels were me... more Photosynthesis rate, internal CO(2) concentration, starch, sucrose, and metabolite levels were measured in leaves of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) during a 14-h period of sinusoidal light, which simulated a natural light period. Photosynthesis rate closely followed increasing and decreasing light level. Chloroplast metabolite levels changed in a manner indicating differential activation of enzymes at different light levels. Starch levels declined during the first and last 2 hours of the photoperiod, but increased when photosynthesis rate was greater than 50% of maximal. Sucrose and sucrose phosphate synthase levels were constant during the photoperiod, which is consistent with a relatively steady rate of sucrose synthesis during the day as observed previously (BR Fondy et al. [1989] Plant Physiol 89: 396-402). When starch was being degraded, glucose 1-phosphate level was high and there was a large amount of glucose 6-phosphate above that in equilibrium with fructose 6-phosphate, whi...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1996
Autonomously replicating sequence (ARS)