Abstract
Low concentrations of oligomycin, which strongly inhibit mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation but do not affect chloroplast photophosphorylation, caused an inhibition of photosynthesis by 30 to 40% in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) leaf protoplasts. This inhibition is reversed and the full rate of photosynthesis is regained when the protoplasts are ruptured so as to leave the chloroplasts intact. Oligomycin fed into barley leaves by the transpiration stream inhibited photosynthesis in these leaves by up to 60%. The measurement of metabolites in protoplast and leaf extracts showed that oligomycin caused a decrease in the ATP/ADP ratio and an increase in the content of glucose- and fructose 6-phosphate. Subcellular analysis of protoplasts revealed that the decrease in ATP/ADP ratio in the cytosol was larger than in the stroma and that the increase in hexose monophosphates was restricted to the cytosol, whereas the stromal hexosemonophosphates decreased upon the addition of oligomycin. Moreover, oligomycin caused an increase in the triosephosphate-3-phosphoglycerate ratio. It is concluded from these results that during photosynthesis of a plant leaf cell mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation contributes to the ATP supply of the cell and prevents overreduction of the chloroplast redox carriers by oxidizing reductive equivalents generated by photosynthetic electron transport.
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