Claim · model-written summary
High calcium concentrations inhibited activity of pectinesterase and polygalacturonase isolated from tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Organ / stage
- fruite0
- Treatment
- high concentrations of calcium ionse0
- Gene
- pectinesterase (PE) and polygalacturonase (PG)e0
- Outcome
- activitye0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
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Verbatim
e0“The activity of mitochondria and the pectic enzymes, pectinesterase (PE) and polygalacturonase (PG), isolated from tomato fruit was inhibited by the addition of high concentrations of calcium ions.”
Title
EFFECT OF CALCIUM ON ACTIVITY OF MITOCHONDRIA AND PECTIC ENZYMES ISOLATED FROM TOMATO FRUITS
R. B. H. WILLS; C. J. RIGNEY Journal of Food Biochemistry 1980. doi:10.1111/j.1745-4514.1980.tb00639.x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect High calcium concentrations inhibited activity of mitochondria isolated from tomato fruit.
- Intervention effect Substantial calcium infiltration completely inhibited whole tomato fruit ripening.
- Intervention effect Lower calcium concentrations stimulated tomato fruit mitochondrial activity.
- Intervention effect Lower calcium concentrations stimulated tomato fruit pectinesterase activity.
- Intervention effect Calcium concentrations greater than 10−7 M inhibited polygalacturonase activity at pH 4.5.