Chloroplast and cytoplasmic enzymes: three distinct isoenzymes associated with the reductive pentose phosphate cycle.

Three pea (Pisum sativum) leaf chloroplast enzymes-triose phosphate isomerase, glyceric acid 3-phosphate kinase, and fructose 1,6-diphosphate aldolase-have been separated from the corresponding cytoplasmic enzymes by isoelectric focusing. These three enzymes of the reductive pentose phosphate cycle are therefore distinct proteins, not identical with the analogous enzymes of the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway.