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Upon illumination with blue light (350–550 nm) of suspension cultured cells (Nicotiana tabacum var. Samsun) the transition of leucoplasts to functional chloroplasts is induced. During the subsequent greening period chlorophylls as well as membrane and enzyme proteins are synthesized. Thus the amount of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase (EC. 4.1.1.39) being small in leucoplasts increases dramatically due to de novo synthesis. This change is also reflected in the level of translatable messenger RNA specific for the small subunit of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase which accumulates only in blue-irradiated cells; its in vitro translation product isolated by immunoprecipitation corresponds mainly to the precursor protein (Mr ≈ 20 000) of the small subunit. In contrast, red light (600–700 nm) does not induce synthesis of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase. According to these findings it is proposed that blue light exerts its influence on ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase in cultured tobacco cells at a level below translation.
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Hundrieser, J., Richter, G. Blue light-induced synthesis of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase in cultured plant cells. Plant Cell Reports 1, 115–118 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272367
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