Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase subunits A and B are essential to maintain photosynthetic efficiency.

ABSTRACT: In plants, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH; EC 1.2.1.12) reversibly converts 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate coupled with the reduction of NADPH to NADP+. The GAPDH enzyme that functions in the Calvin-Benson cycle is assembled either from 4 glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase A (GAPA) subunit proteins forming a homotetramer (A4) or from 2 GAPA and 2 glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase B (GAPB) subunit proteins forming a heterotetramer (A2B2). The relative importance of these 2 forms of GAPDH in determining the rate of photosynthesis is unknown. To address this question, we measured the photosynthetic rates of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants containing reduced amounts of the GAPDH A and B subunits individually and jointly, using T-DN

SUBMITTER: Simkin AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11025378 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature