The influence of the phytoplankton-specific organic compound glycolate on bacterial community structure was examined during the 2004 spring phytoplankton bloom (February to April) in Dabob Bay in Washington. The diversity of the bacteria able to utilize glycolate during the phytoplankton bloom was determined using previously developed PCR primers to amplify the gene for the D subunit of glycola...

Methionine sulfoximine induced release of ammonia from illuminated cells of Ankistrodesmus braunii (Naegeli) Brunnth, in normal air, but less in air enriched to 3% CO(2). In normal air, methionine sulfoximine also induced glycolate release. Addition of either glutamate, glycine, or serine suppressed glycolate release, whereas glutamate and glycine at the same time stimulated ammonia release. Th...

The major photorespiratory pathway in higher plants is distributed over chloroplasts, mitochondria, and peroxisomes. In this pathway, glycolate oxidation takes place in peroxisomes. It was previously suggested that a mitochondrial glycolate dehydrogenase (GlcDH) that was conserved from green algae lacking leaf-type peroxisomes contributes to photorespiration in Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, the i...

The oxidation of glycolate to glyoxylate is an important reaction step in photorespiration. Land plants and charophycean green algae oxidize glycolate in the peroxisome using oxygen as a co-factor, whereas chlorophycean green algae use a mitochondrial glycolate dehydrogenase (GDH) with organic co-factors. Previous analyses revealed the existence of a GDH in the mitochondria of Arabidopsis thali...

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C(4)H(10)NO(+)·C(6)HCl(2)O(4) (-)·CH(4)O, the components are held together by bifurcated O-H⋯(O,O), O-H⋯(O,Cl) and N-H⋯(O,O) hydrogen bonds into a centrosymmetric 2+2+2 aggregate. The aggregates are further connected by another bifurcated N-H⋯(O, O) hydrogen bond, forming a double-tape structure along the b axis. A weak C-H⋯O inter-action is obser...

The title compound, C(6)H(13)ClNO(+)·C(6)H(2)N(3)O(7) (-), was synthesized from picric acid and 4-(2-chloro-ethyl)morpholine. The crystal structure is stabilized by C-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen-bond inter-actions.

The fixation of molecular O2 by the oxygenase activity of Rubisco leads to the formation of phosphoglycolate in the chloroplast that is further metabolized in the process of photorespiration. The initial step of this pathway is the oxidation of glycolate to glyoxylate. Whereas in higher plants this reaction takes place in peroxisomes and is dependent on oxygen as a co-factor, most algae oxidize...

Abstract The oxygenase activity of Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) converts ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) into 2-phosphoglycolate, which in turn channels photorespiration, resulting carbon and energy loss higher plants. We observed that glycolate can be accumulated extracellularly when two genes encoding the dehydrogenase cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 wer...

An antiserum to tobacco glycolate oxidase has been prepared by injection of the purified enzyme into rabbits. Double gel diffusion tests between the antiserum and purified antigen and also with a crude tobacco preparation gave a single immunoprecipitation band. Crude extracts of Euglena gracilis Z Klebs, containing glycolate dehydrogenase, and of Chlorella vulgaris 211-llh/20, containing glycol...

We used a xylitol load to test the two-carbon pathway to oxalate production in humans. Use of this pentose sugar caused a fourfold increase in glycolate excretion, indicating its suitability as a dynamic function test of two-carbon metabolism. However, despite this increase in glycolate excretion in 10 recurrent stone formers and six normal subjects, there was no concomitant increase in oxalate...