The effect of freezing, desiccation and various electrolytes on photophosphorylation, electron transport and some enzyme reactions of isolated spinach chloroplasts has been investigated. Freezing of broken chloroplasts took place at-25°C for 3 hrs; desiccation was performed at +2°Cin vacuoover CaCl2for 3 hrs. The influence of various electrolytes during freezing or drying or during incubation of thylakoids or stroma enzymes for 3 hrs at +2°C in electrolyte solutions was determined. After treatment, the activities of a number of enzymes and enzyme systems were measured under normal conditions, e. g. in the absence of elevated electrolyte levels in a reaction medium which contained only the substrates and cofactors which are necessary for the respective enzyme reactio
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