Regulation of stromal sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase activity by pH and Mg2+ concentration.
A scheme is proposed for the regulation of stromal sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase activity which enlarges upon a previously elaborated mechanism (Woodrow, I.E., and Walker, D.A. (1983) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 722, 508-516). The latter involves oxidized (inactive) and reduced (active) enzyme forms. Both the free enzymes and the enzyme-substrate complexes undergo slow oxidation/reduction. This study examines the behavior of the system under pH and Mg2+ concentration regimes that are likely to occur in the chloroplast stroma. The control of enzyme activity by pH can be described in terms of each free enzyme and enzyme-substrate complex existing in protonated and nonprotonated forms. The molecular dissociation constants for each protonation reaction were calculated from kinetic data. Mg2+ concentration changes modulate these constants. Under conditions that are likely to obtain in the stroma in the dark, the model predicts that approximately 99.1% of the enzyme will be in the inactive forms. Such inactivation is important since it would prevent the reductive pentose phosphate pathway from operating in darkness.[1]References
- Regulation of stromal sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase activity by pH and Mg2+ concentration. Woodrow, I.E., Murphy, D.J., Latzko, E. J. Biol. Chem. (1984) [Pubmed]
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