Abstract
The major conclusion drawn was that malate generated in corn roots during a 15-minute period of CO2 fixation and malate introduced into the tissue during a similar period from the bathing medium share a common extramitochondrial compartment, the cytoplasmic pool. The utilization of these 2 forms of malate is normally much slower than that of malate generated in the mitochondria by the tricarboxylic acid cycle. By lowering the pH of the medium or treating the tissue with malonate or 2,4-dinitrophenol, similar increases in the rates of utilization of both forms of cytoplasmic malate were brought about. Changes in (A) the demand for acetyl acceptors in the mitochondria and (B) mitochondrial permeability were invoked to account for the increased utilization of the cytoplasmic malate under the various experimental treatments.
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