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. 1996 Jan;110(1):111–123. doi: 10.1104/pp.110.1.111

The pH Requirement for in Vivo Activity of the Iron-Deficiency-Induced "Turbo" Ferric Chelate Reductase (A Comparison of the Iron-Deficiency-Induced Iron Reductase Activities of Intact Plants and Isolated Plasma Membrane Fractions in Sugar Beet).

S Susin 1, A Abadia 1, J A Gonzalez-Reyes 1, J J Lucena 1, J Abadia 1
PMCID: PMC157700  PMID: 12226175

Abstract

The characteristics of the Fe reduction mechanisms induced by Fe deficiency have been studied in intact plants of Beta vulgaris and in purified plasma membrane vesicles from the same plants. In Fe-deficient plants the in vivo Fe(III)-ethylenediaminetetraacetic complex [Fe(III)-EDTA] reductase activity increased over the control values 10 to 20 times when assayed at a pH of 6.0 or below ("turbo" reductase) but increased only 2 to 4 times when assayed at a pH of 6.5 or above. The Fe(III)-EDTA reductase activity of root plasma membrane preparations increased 2 and 3.5 times over the controls, irrespective of the assay pH. The Km for Fe(III)-EDTA of the in vivo ferric chelate reductase in Fe-deficient plants was approximately 510 and 240 [mu]M in the pH ranges 4.5 to 6.0 and 6.5 to 8.0, respectively. The Km for Fe(III)-EDTA of the ferric chelate reductase in intact control plants and in plasma membrane preparations isolated from Fe-deficient and control plants was approximately 200 to 240 [mu]M. Therefore, the turbo ferric chelate reductase activity of Fe-deficient plants at low pH appears to be different from the constitutive ferric chelate reductase.

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