Abstract
Intact amyloplasts from endosperm of developing wheat grains have been isolated by first preparing the protoplasts and then fractionating the lysate of the protoplasts on percoll and ficoll gradients, respectively. Amyloplasts isolated as above were functional and not contaminated by cytosol or by organelles likely to be involved in carbohydrate metabolism. The enzyme distribution studies indicated that ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase and starch synthase were confined to amyloplasts, whereas invertase, sucrose synthase, UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, hexokinase, phosphofructokinase-2 and fructose-2,6-P2ase were absent fro the amyloplast and mainly confined to the cytosol. Triose-P isomerase, glyceraldehyde-3-P dehydrogenase, phosphohexose isomerase, phosphoglucomutase, phosphofructokinase, aldolase, PPi-fructose-6-P-1 phosphotransferase, and fructose-l,6-P2ase, though predominantly cytosolic, were also present in the amyloplast. Based on distribution of enzymes, a probable pathway for starch biosynthesis in amyloplasts of developing wheat grains has been proposed.
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Abbreviations
- BSA:
-
bovine serum albumin
- PFP:
-
fructose-6-phosphate-1-phosphotransferase
- PFK-2:
-
fructose-6-phosphate 2-kinase
- PFK:
-
phosphofructokinase
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Mahajan, R., Singh, R. Enzyme activities associated with developing wheat(Triticum aestivum L.) grain amyloplasts. J Biosci 15, 77–82 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02703371
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