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. 1987 Jan 1;241(1):71–74. doi: 10.1042/bj2410071

Isolation and purification of chloroplastic spinach (Spinacia oleracea) sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase.

F Cadet, J C Meunier, N Ferté
PMCID: PMC1147525  PMID: 3032163

Abstract

Higher-plant sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase was isolated and purified over 200-fold from spinach (Spinacia oleracea) chloroplast stromal extracts to apparent electrophoretic homogeneity by DEAE-Fractogel, molecular sieving on Sephadex G-200 and Blue B dye-matrix affinity chromatography. It is a protein of Mr 66,000, made up of two apparently identical subunits (Mr 35,000). The enzyme is activated by reduced thioredoxin fb in the presence of dithiothreitol. Its specificity towards sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphate versus fructose 1,6-bisphosphate is high, but not absolute.

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