Immunogold localization of Rubisco and Rubisco activase in leaves of rice

Abstract

The enzymes of Rubisco and Rubisco activase were localized using immunogold-labeled method and electron microscope techniques. The results showed that Rubisco was mainly located in choloroplast, Rubisco activase, however, specially labeled both in chloroplast and mitochondria, which implied that Rubisco activase has other functions besides activating inactive Rubisco in photosynthesis.

Keywords

• Rubisco
• Rubisco activase
• localization
• chloroplast
• mitochondria