Involvement of magnesium and ATP in the regulation of nitrate reductase activity in Sinapis alba
1997
Herrera, R. | Johnson, C.B.
The activity of NADH: nitrate reductase (NR, EC 1.6.6.1) was extracted from mustard (Sinapis alba) cotyledons and leaves. When seedlings/plants were grown following light/dark cycles in the presence of nitrate, an increase in the activity of NR was observed during light periods compared to dark periods. An inhibition in NR activity was observed after treatment with Mg2+ and ATP in extracts from both cotyledons and leaves prepared from tissue harvested during light periods. No apparent inhibition was observed in tissue extracts harvested during dark periods. Two isoforms of mustard NR (NR1 and NR2) were separated by the use of anion exchange chromatography. The results indicate that NR2 (the more negatively charged isoform) corresponds to a light-inducible form, which was selectively and strongly inhibited by Mg2+/ATP. The results presented here indicate that the modulation of NR activity by light can be attributed, at least in part, to a protein reversible phosphorylation/dephosphorylation mechanism on NR2.
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