Plastidic L-glutamine synthetase: A membrane-bound enzyme in Sphagnum fallax

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 270-275

  Kahl, S ^a   Berswordt Wallrabe, P V ^a   Heeschen, V ^a   Schmidt, H ^a   Rudolph, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Chloroplasts; GS2; L glutamine synthetase; Protein purification; Sphagnum fallax; Thylakoid membranes

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA; FALLAX; PTERIDOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FALLAX;

EID: 0031760659     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0176-1617(98)80151-X     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. J.J.P. Baaks H.J.M. Op Den Camp J.W.G. Paalmann V. Mikeš C. Van Der Drift L.J.L.D. Van Griensven G.D. Vogels Purification and characterization of glutamine synthetase from the commercial mushroom Agaricus bisporus Current Microbiol. 31 1995 108 113
2. J.P. Bedell M. Chalot A. Brun B. Botton Purification and properties of glutamine synthetase from Douglas fir roots Physiol. Plant. 94 1995 597 604
3. H. Blum H. Beier H.J. Gross Improved silver-staining of plant proteins, RNA and DNA in Polyacrylamide gels Electrophoresis 8 1987 93 99
4. M.M. Bradford A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal. Biochem. 72 1976 248 254
5. H. Deising H. Rudolph Nitrate — induced de novo synthesis and regulation of NAD(P)H nitrate reductase from Sphagnum Physiol. Plant. 71 1987 477 482
6. M. Harada S. Takio S. Takami Nitrogen-assimilating enzymes in chlorophyllous cells of the liverwort, Marchantia paleacea var. diptera, grown in the dark J. Plant. Physiol. 141 1993 527 532
7. V. Heeschen J. Matlok S. Schrader H. Rudolph Asparagine catabolism in bryophytes: Purification and characterization of two L-asparaginase isoforms from Sphagnum Physiol. Plant. 97 1996 402 410
8. V. Heeschen J. Gerendás C.P. Richter H. Rudolph Glutamate dehydrogenase of Sphagnum Phytochemistry 45 1997 881 887
9. B. Hirel P. Gadal Glutamine synthetase in rice. A comparative study of the enzymes from roots and leaves Plant Physiol. 66 1980 619 623
10. S. Kahl J. Gerendás V. Heeschen R.G. Ratcliffe H. Rudolph Ammonium assimilation in bryophytes. L-glutamine synthetase from Sphagnum fallax . Physiol. Plant. 101 1997 86 92
11. U.K. Laemmli Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T 4 Nature 227 1970 680 685
12. S.F. Mcnally B. Hirel P. Gadal A.F. Mann G.R. Stewart Glutamine synthetase of higher plants. Evidence for a specific isoform content related to their possible physiological role and their compartmentation within the leaf Plant Physiol. 72 1983 22 25
13. G. Ochs G. Schock A. Wild Purification and characterization of glutamine synthetase isoenzymes from leaves and roots of Brassica napus (L.) J. Plant Physiol. 147 1995 1 8
14. C. Palaniappan M. Gunasekaran Purification and properties of glutamine synthetase from Nocardia asteriudes Curr. Microbiol. 31 1995 193 198
15. D.L. Robertson R.S. Alberte Isolation and characterization of glutamine synthetase from the marine diatom Skeletonema costatum Plant. Physiol. 111 1996 1169 1175
16. H. Rudolph S. Rasmussen Studies on secondary metabolism of Sphagnum cultivated in bioreactors Crypt. Bot. 3 1992 67 73
17. A.K.J. Sallal The presence of glutamine synthetase in the thyla-koids of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum J. Basic Microbiol. 3612 1996 113 119
18. S. Suye K. Asada T. Nishimura S. Yokoyama Purification and characterization of glutamine synthetase from Arthrobacter aurescens IAM 12340 Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. 22 1995 367 376
19. D.C. Yoch M. Cantu Z.-M. Zhang Evidence for a glutamine synthetase-chromatophore association in the phototroph Rhodospirillum rubrum : Purification, properties, and regulation of the enzyme J. Bacteriol. 154 2 1983 632 639
20. R. Ziegler K. Egle Zur quantitativen Analyse der Chloro-plastenpigmente Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 41 1965 11 37