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When acetate-adapted cultures of Chlorella fusca were transferred to nitrogen-free medium containing glucose, isocitrate lyase activity was lost over a period of about 25 h. Using a combination of in vivo isotope labelling and immunoprecipitation with anti-isocitrate lyase IgG it was shown that: 1. The onset of loss of enzyme activity preceeded the complete cessation of enzyme synthesis. 2. Disappearance of isocitrate lyase activity was accompanied by loss of enzyme protein, without accumulation of antigenic protein distinguishable from the normal subunit polypeptide of the enzyme, as judged by SDS gel electrophoresis of immunoprecipitated samples from supernatant cell-free extracts. 3. SDS gel electrophoresis of immunoprecipitated isocitrate lyase revealed the presence of antigenic protein bands of Mr about twice that of the normal subunit polypeptide, but the appearance of these apparent dimer forms did not obviously correlate with enzyme degradation. 4. Isoelectric focusing of immunoprecipitated isocitrate lyase showed that the enzyme became progressively more oxidised during the period of its degradation in vivo. 5. By titrating crude broken cell suspensions with anti-isocitrate lyase antibody, preliminary evidence was obtained for transfer of the enzyme from the soluble fraction to an insoluble form as part of the process of disappearance.
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Henley, L.F., Thurston, C.F. The disappearance of isocitrate lyase from the green alga Chlorella fusca studied by immunoprecipitation. Arch. Microbiol. 145, 266–271 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00443656
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