Evolutionary conserved light regulation of Calvin cycle activity by NADPH-mediated reversible phosphoribulokinase/CP12/ glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase complex dissociation.

ABSTRACT: For higher plant chloroplasts, two key enzymes of the Calvin cycle, phosphoribulokinase (EC 2.7.1.19) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH, EC 1.2.1.13), have recently been shown to be oligomerized onto the nonenzymatic peptide CP12. Enzymatic activity depends on complex dissociation, mediated by NADPH. The discovery of genes for CP12 in mosses, green algae, and cyanobacteria, together with the analysis of equivalent multiprotein complexes of Chlamydomonas and Synechocystis suggests that light regulation of Calvin cycle activity via NADPH-mediated reversible phosphoribulokinase/CP12/GAPDH complex dissociation is conserved in all photosynthetic organisms, prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In vitro complex reconstitution assays with heterologously expressed Synechocystis wild-type a

SUBMITTER: Wedel N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC21402 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature