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Title: The oxidative pentose phosphate pathway in photosynthesis: a tale of two shunts

Journal Article · · New Phytologist
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19730 · OSTI ID:2332903
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  1. MSU‐DOE Plant Research Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA
  2. MSU‐DOE Plant Research Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA, Plant Resilience Institute Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA, Department of Biology Western University London ON N6A 5B7 Canada
  3. MSU‐DOE Plant Research Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA, Plant Resilience Institute Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA

Summary CO 2 release in the light ( R L ) and its presumed source, oxidative pentose phosphate pathways, were found to be insensitive to CO 2 concentration. The oxidative pentose phosphate pathways form glucose 6‐phosphate (G6P) shunts that bypass the nonoxidative pentose phosphate reactions of the Calvin–Benson cycle. Using adenosine diphosphate glucose and uridine diphosphate glucose as proxies for labeling of G6P in the stroma and cytosol respectively, it was found that only the cytosolic shunt was active. Uridine diphosphate glucose, a proxy for cytosolic G6P, and 6‐phosphogluconate (6PG) were significantly less labeled than Calvin–Benson cycle intermediates in the light. But ADP glucose, a proxy for stromal G6P, is labeled to the same degree as Calvin–Benson cycle intermediates and much greater than 6PG. A metabolically inert pool of sedoheptulose bisphosphate can slowly equilibrate keeping the label in sedoheptulose lower than in other stromal metabolites. Finally, phosphorylation of fructose 6‐phosphate (F6P) in the cytosol can allow some unlabeled carbon in cytosolic F6P to dilute label in phosph enol pyruvate. The results clearly show that there is oxidative pentose phosphate pathway activity in the cytosol that provides a shunt around the nonoxidative pentose phosphate pathway reactions of the Calvin–Benson cycle and is not strongly CO 2 ‐sensitive.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
2332903
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OSTI ID: 2332905
Journal Information:
New Phytologist, Journal Name: New Phytologist Vol. 242 Journal Issue: 6; ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher:
Wiley-BlackwellCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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