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. 1979 Dec;64(6):1012–1014. doi: 10.1104/pp.64.6.1012

Effects of Pronase on Isolated Chloroplasts 1

Leonard Fish a,2, Vincent R Franceschi a, C Ralph Stocking a
PMCID: PMC543182  PMID: 16661083

Abstract

Subjecting isolated spinach chloroplasts to mild proteolysis (10-minute incubation at 20 C in 500 micrograms per milliliter pronase) caused chloroplast clumping but did not affect their integrity as measured by their ability to carry out light stimulated, glycerate-3-P-dependent O2 evolution. Transmission electron microscopy revealed no detectable differences between the control and treated plastids. Mild proteolysis inactivated exogenously added pyruvate kinase and should be a useful technique in certain enzyme distribution studies.

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