Eickenbusch, JD; Beck, E: Evidence for Involvement of 2 Types of Reaction in Glycolate Formation during Photosynthesis in Isolated Spinach Chloroplasts, FEBS Letters, 31, 225-228 (1973), doi:10.1016/0014-5793(73)80109-7 | |
Abstract: It is widely accepted [l-3] that an oxidative pro- cess causes glycolate formation in connection with photoassimilation of CO2 and that sugar phosphates or activated glycol aldehyde are substrates for this reaction. But the nature of the oxidant itself is still contested: Thus H202 [2,3] generated by a Mehler reaction [4, 51 during photosynthesis or 0, [ 1,6] it- self are frequently thought to act as oxidants. Recent- ly Gibbs and coworkers [3,7,8] have concluded mainly from experiments with a reconstituted chloro- plast system that 2 oxidation reactions participate in glycolate production, which differ in the nature of the oxidants. It was assumed by the authors |