Abstract
When intact Kalanchoë plants are illuminated NADP-linked malic dehydrogenase and three enzymes of the reductive pentose phosphate pathway, ribulose-5-phosphate kinase, NADP-linked glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, and sedoheptulose-1,7-diphosphate phosphatase, are activated. In crude extracts these enzymes are activated by dithiothreitol treatment. Light or dithiothreitol treatment does not inactivate the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Likewise, neither light, in vivo, nor dithiothreitol, in vitro, affects fructose-1,6-diphosphate phosphatase. Apparently the potential for modulation of enzyme activity by the reductively activated light effect mediator system exists in Crassulacean acid metabolism plants, but some enzymes which are light-dark-modulated in the pea plant are not in Kalanchoë.
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