MS
Marek Szecowka
  • Central Metabolism Research Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Planzenphysiologie, Germany
Research fields
  • Plant science
Extraction and Measurement the Activities of Cytosolic Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (PEPCK) and Plastidic NADP-dependent Malic Enzyme (ME) on Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
A recent study demonstrated that cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) and NADP-malic enzyme (NADP-ME) have an important role in malate metabolism during fruit ripening (Osorio et al., 2013). PEPCK catalyze the ATP-dependent decarboxylation of oxaloacetate (OAA) to phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) and NADP-ME, the reversible conversion of malate and pyruvate. Here, we present the detailed protocols to measure PEPCK activity in carboxylation direction by following oxidation of NADH and to measure NADP-ME activity based upon the reduction of NADP+.
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