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Galactosyltransferase Activities in Intact Spinach Chloroplasts and Envelope Membrane Involvement of Galactolipid: Galactolipid Galactosyltransferase

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Digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG) is a major lipid of the chloroplast membranes (1). in our studies to the galactolipid synthesis in isolated chloroplast envelopes membrane, we could measure only one enzymatic activity involved in DGDG synthesis: galactolipid: galactolipid galactosyltransferase (GGGT). We were unable to measure an alternative reaction involving an UDPGal: monogalactosyldiacylglycerol galactosyl-transferase (2–4). However, apart from DGDG, GGGT produces diacylglycerol and the higher homologues tri- and tetragalactocyldiacylglycerol (TGDG and TeGDG):

$$ \begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {MGDG + MGDG \to DGDG + diacy\lg lycerol}\\ {DGDG + MGDG \to TGDG + diacy\lg lycerol.} \end{array} $$

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  1. Botanisch Laboratorium, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld, 6525, ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Johan W. M. Heemskerk, Frans H. H. Jacobs, Vincent A. Tromp & J. F. G. M. Wintermans

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Heemskerk, J.W.M., Jacobs, F.H.H., Tromp, V.A., Wintermans, J.F.G.M. (1987). Galactosyltransferase Activities in Intact Spinach Chloroplasts and Envelope Membrane Involvement of Galactolipid: Galactolipid Galactosyltransferase . In: Biggins, J. (eds) Progress in Photosynthesis Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3535-8_49

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