研究了老化叶绿体中Pheophorbide(Pheide)a裂解为主要荧光叶绿素(Chl)降解产物(pFCCs)的过程。从老化油菜(Brassica napus)子叶中分离出的叶绿体制备物,在添加ferredoxin(Fd)的检测混合物中,表现出光依赖性的pFCC产生。在溶剂化的膜中,pFCC的产生取决于存在Fd还原系统。Pheide a的裂解需要两种蛋白质的作用,即Pheide a氧化酶和一个基质蛋白质。在缺乏基质蛋白质的情况下,Pheide a氧化酶将Pheide a转化为红色的Chl降解产物(RCC),这是Pheide a裂解的推定中间产物。将基质蛋白质(RCC还原酶)与化学合成的RCC一起孵育,结果产生了三种不同的FCC。其中两种降解产物分别与油菜或大麦(Hordeum vulgare)(pFCC-1)和甜椒(Capsicum annuum)(pFCC-2)中的pFCC完全相同。因此,Pheide a转化为pFCC的过程可以被证明是分为两个连续步骤进行的,而且两个反应都取决于还原的Fd作为电子来源。Fd在Chl降解中的功能得到了免疫印迹证实,因为这种蛋白质在老化的晚期仍然明显存在。
The catabolic pathway of chlorophyll (Chl) during senescence and fruit ripening leads to the accumulation of colorless breakdown products (NCCs). This review updates an earlier review on Chl breakdown published here in 1999 ( 69 ). It summarizes recent advances in the biochemical reactions of the pathway and describes the characterization of new NCCs and their formation inside the vacuole. Furthermore, I focus on the recent molecular identification of three chl catabolic enzymes, chlorophyllase, pheophorbide a oxygenase (PAO), and red Chl catabolite reductase (RCCR). The analysis of Chl catabolic mutants demonstrates the importance of Chl breakdown for plant development and survival. Mutants defective in PAO or RCCR develop a lesion mimic phenotype, due to the accumulation of breakdown intermediates. Thus, Chl breakdown is a prerequisite to detoxify the potentially phototoxic pigment within the vacuoles in order to permit the remobilization of nitrogen from Chl-binding proteins to proceed during senescence.
Red chlorophyll (Chl) catabolite (RCC) reductase, which catalyzes the reaction of an intermediary Chl catabolite (RCC) in the two-step cleavage reaction of pheophorbide (Pheide) a into primary fluorescent catabolites (pFCCs) during Chl breakdown, was characterized and partially purified. RCC reductase activity was present at all stages of barley leaf development and even in roots. The highest specific activity was found in senescent leaves, which were used to purify RCC reductase 1000-fold. Among the remaining three proteins, RCC reductase activity was most likely associated with a 55-kD protein. RCC reductase exhibited saturation kinetics for RCC, with an apparent Michaelis constant of 0.6 mM. The reaction depended on reduced ferredoxin and was sensitive to oxygen. Assays of purified RCC reductase with chemically synthesized RCC as a substrate yielded three different FCCs, two of which could be identified as the stereoisomeric pFCCs from canola (Brassica napus) (pFCC-1) and sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum) (pFCC-2), respectively. In the coupled reaction with Pheide a oxidase and RCC reductase, either pFCC-1 or pFCC-2 was produced, depending on the plant species employed as a source of RCC reductase. Data from 18 species suggest that the stereospecific action of RCC reductase is uniform within a plant family.
红色叶绿素(Chl)降解物(RCC)还原酶,在叶绿素分解过程中,催化中间产物Chl降解物(RCC)在苯丙卟啉(Pheide)a的两步裂解反应中,将其转化为主要的荧光降解物(pFCCs),并进行了表征和部分纯化。RCC还原酶活性在大麦叶片发育的所有阶段以及根部中均存在。最高的特异性活性在衰老的叶片中发现,用于将RCC还原酶纯化1000倍。在剩余的三种蛋白质中,RCC还原酶活性最可能与55kD蛋白质相关。RCC还原酶对RCC表现出饱和动力学,表观米氏常数为0.6mM。反应依赖于还原型叶绿素和对氧敏感。用化学合成的RCC作为底物进行纯化的RCC还原酶测定,产生了三种不同的FCC,其中两种可以分别鉴定为油菜(Brassica napus)和甜椒(Capsicum annuum)的立体异构体pFCC-1和pFCC-2。在Pheide a氧化酶和RCC还原酶的耦合反应中,根据作为RCC还原酶来源的植物物种的不同,产生pFCC-1或pFCC-2。来自18种物种的数据表明,RCC还原酶的立体特异性作用在植物家族内是一致的。