Abstract
Developing chloroplasts were incubated under conditions previously shown to induce protochlorophyll and chlorophyll biosynthesis, as well as chloroplast maintenance and partial differentiation in vitro. In the presence of air, δ-aminolevulinic acid, coenzyme A, glutathione, potassium phosphate, methyl alcohol, magnesium, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, and adenosine triphosphate, microgram quantities of chlorophyll accumulated after 1 hour of incubation. Part of the chlorophyll was not extractable in organic solvents; it is referred to as bound chlorophyll. The amount of bound chlorophyll depended on the degree of cotyledon greening at the time of plastid isolation. Etioplasts with or without a lag phase of chlorophyll biosynthesis synthesized nonphototransformable protochlorophyll and smaller amounts of extractable chlorophyll. As the greening of excised cotyledons progressed, more of the chlorophyll became bound before and after in vitro incubation. It is suggested that this increase in the fraction of bound chlorophyll reflects the biosynthesis of membrane-bound chlorophyll receptor sites. In the absence of cofactors, chlorophyll biosynthesis was blocked and porphyrins accumulated, indicating damage of the chlorophyll biosynthetic chain. It is concluded that chlorophyll accumulation constitutes a potentially convenient tool for the study of thylakoid membrane biogenesis in vitro.
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