Purification and Characterization of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Edward Gordon, Chad Newman, A. Malcolm Campbell, and John H. Williamson

Biology Department, Davidson College

ABSTRACT

NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase was purified from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using ammonium sulfate precipitation, affinity chromatography and gel filtration.

C. reinhardtii IDH is a monomeric enzyme with a molecular size of 60 kD. Km values for isocitrate and NADP were 4.8 ±0.53 µM and 2.8 ±0.33 µM, respectively. The enzyme has an absolute requirement for divalent metal ions, using Mn++ about 1.5 times as efficiently as Mg++, but cannot use Cd, Ca, Cu, Ni, Hg, Sr or Zn ions. IDH activity is stable to about 60·C and has a wide pH optimum of 7.4 to 8.2.

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