Claim · model-written summary
Potato tuber mitochondria contained ferrochelatase.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume0 - Organ / stage
- potato tuber mitochondriae0
- Outcome
- Ferrochelatase was also detectede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Ferrochelatase was also detected in potato tuber mitochondria.”
Title
R. J. Porra; June Lascelles Biochemical Journal 1968. doi:10.1042/bj1080343
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- Observation Ferrochelatase was detected in bean leaf chloroplasts and proplastids.
- Observation Ferrochelatase was detected in oat leaf chloroplasts and proplastids.
- Observation Illuminated etiolated bean seedlings had chloroplast ferrochelatase.
- Observation Specific ferrochelatase activities were similar among three bean organelles.
- Observation Specific ferrochelatase activities were similar in oat proplastids and chloroplasts.
- Observation Young spinach leaf chloroplasts contained ferrochelatase.
- Observation Spinach chloroplasts could not insert Mg(2+) into mesoporphyrin IX.
- Observation Plant ferrochelatase activity was less stable in storage than bacterial and animal preparations.
- Observation Spinach chloroplast ferrochelatase activity rose from 20.6 to 26 degrees.
- Observation Spinach chloroplast ferrochelatase became increasingly inactivated up to 38 degrees.