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Mahalingam R, Skorupska HT. Cytological expression of early response to infection by Heterodera glycines Ichinohe in resistant PI 437654 soybean. Genome 2012; 39:986-98. [PMID: 18469948 DOI: 10.1139/g96-123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The soybean PI 437654 is resistant to all known races of the soybean cyst nematode (SCN) in the U.S.A. and became a new source of resistance genes in cultivar development. Race 3, a wide-ranging nematode pathotype, was used to examine root cells of PI 437654 and susceptible 'Essex', 2, 3, and 5 days after inoculation (DAI). In initial response to SCN, both genotypes formed syncytia by cell wall dissolutions. Hypertrophy of syncytium component cells and hyperplasia of cells near syncytia were observed. At 2 DAI, incompatible response of PI 437654 to SCN was exhibited: limited cell hypertrophy, inhibition of syncytium growth, initiation of necrosis, and wall appositions. At 3 DAI, cellular events appeared to be a sum of the operative mechanisms for SCN resistance: irregular wall thickening, pronounced wall appositions, necrosis, and nuclear breakdown followed by cytoplasmic collapse. The cells surrounding the syncytia showed necrosis, wall apposition, and accumulation of electron-dense bodies. By 5 DAI, syncytia and neighboring cells were totally devoid of ground plasma and the degeneration process was completed. The normal route for early syncytium development in 'Essex' (increased number of organelles, intense vacuolization, accumulation of dense deposits in vacuoles, and wall ingrowths) suggests the involvement of portions of the developmental pathway of differentiating tissues in organogenesis. Early onset of SCN resistance 2 DAI in PI 437654 suggests rapid activation of genes in a cascade reaction leading to cell death. Key words : soybean, nematode, syncytium, cell death.
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beta-Glucan synthesis from uridine diphosphoglucose by pea epicotyl tissue slices is increased two- to threefold by preliminary, short-term treatment with cellulases purified from auxin-treated peas. We suggest that cellulases introduce chain ends in accessible regions of cellulose microfibrils which then act as primers for chain elongation.
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Molecular Insights in the Susceptible Plant Response to Nematode Infection. CELL BIOLOGY OF PLANT NEMATODE PARASITISM 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85215-5_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Molecular Insights in the Susceptible Plant Response to Nematode Infection. PLANT CELL MONOGRAPHS 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/7089_2008_35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Vanholme B, De Meutter J, Tytgat T, Van Montagu M, Coomans A, Gheysen G. Secretions of plant-parasitic nematodes: a molecular update. Gene 2004; 332:13-27. [PMID: 15145050 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2003] [Revised: 01/30/2004] [Accepted: 02/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The interaction between sedentary endoparasitic nematodes and plants is fascinating, because these animals have developed an ingenious way to manipulate the plant's gene regulation and metabolism to their own advantage. They are able to form highly specialized feeding structures in the plant root to satisfy their nutritional demands for development and reproduction. This ability makes them extremely successful parasites with severe consequences for agriculture. Triggered by these economical losses, detailed studies of the parasitic interaction have been performed, which resulted in an extensive descriptive knowledge. However, the underlying biochemical and molecular events of this intimate relationship have still not been elucidated. It is generally accepted that secretions produced by the nematode are responsible for the dramatic alteration of specific cells in the host plant. In the past few years, the identification of genes coding for secreted proteins was a breakthrough in plant nematode research. However, the available information is still too limited to allow the formulation of a comprehensive model, mainly because the sequences of many of these genes are novel with no similar sequence found in the existing databases. A new challenge in the coming years will be the functional analysis of these putative parasitism genes.
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- Bartel Vanholme
- Molecular Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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The feeding sites induced by sedentary root-endoparasitic nematodes have long fascinated researchers. Nematode feeding sites are constructed from plant cells, modified by the nematode to feed itself. Powerful new techniques are allowing us to begin to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that produce the ultrastructural features in nematode feeding cells. Many plant genes that are expressed in feeding sites produced by different nematodes have been identified in several plant species. Nematode-responsive plant genes can now be grouped in categories related to plant developmental pathways and their roles in the making of a feeding site can be illuminated. The black box of how nematodes bring about such elaborate cell differentiation in the plant is also starting to open. Although the information is far from complete, the groundwork is set so that the functions of the plant and nematode genes in feeding site development can begin to be assessed.
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- Godelieve Gheysen
- Vakgroep Moleculaire Genetica, Departement Plantengenetica, Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Universiteit Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Belgium.
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The plant cell wall is modified in coordination with almost all plant developmental processes. Modifications in the cell wall are thought to be mediated by cell wall hydrolases, including those encoded by a large family of genes specifying endo-1,4-beta-D-glucanases (EC 3.2.1.4), which participate in the breakdown of beta-1,4 glucosidic linkages. The enzymes expected to modify cellulose, commonly referred to as cellulases, are encoded by members of this gene family. In Arabidopsis the endo-1,4-beta-D-glucanase (EGase) gene family is extensive (more than 12 members) and encompasses structurally different classes of genes encoding proteins with contrasting enzyme functions. Within the family there are enzymes located at the plasma membrane that are presumed to act at the innermost layers of the cell wall, and enzymes that are secreted and are presumed to act at any stratum within the cell wall, including the outermost layer. Both structural gene groups are members of the glycosyl hydrolase gene Family 9. Evidence suggests that EGases anchored in the plasma membrane play a role in cell wall biosynthetic processes, presumably by editing cellulose synthesis or during the assembly of the cellulose-hemicellulose network. Those EGases that are extracellular play specific roles in cell wall catabolic processes and their activity ranges from partial and localized to massive and catastrophic. This range in activity is linked to processes such as cell growth and cell death, respectively. For all Arabidopsis EGases nothing is known about their true in vivo substrate, mode of action, or to what extent they can act on cellulose or other beta-1,4 glucans. The study of the EGase gene family is in its infancy, and because of the possible agronomic implications this group of genes deserves continued attention.
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- E del Campillo
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland at College Park 20742, USA
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Wu SC, Blumer JM, Darvill AG, Albersheim P. Characterization of an endo-beta-1,4-glucanase gene induced by auxin in elongating pea epicotyls. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1996; 110:163-70. [PMID: 8587980 PMCID: PMC157705 DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.1.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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A gene (EGL1) encoding an endo-beta-1,4-D-glucanase (EGase, EC 3.2.1.4) of pea (Pisum sativum) has been cloned and characterized. EGL1 encodes a 486-amino acid polypeptide, including a 24-mer putative signal peptide. The mature protein has a calculated molecular mass of 51.3 kD and an isoelectric point of 9.1. This pea EGase shares significant similarity with EGases from other plant species, but it appears to be distinct from the EGases associated with abscission and fruit ripening. Although EGL1 transcripts are detected in all parts of pea plants, they are relatively abundant in flowers and young pods undergoing rapid growth and most abundant in elongating epicotyls of etiolated seedlings. When epicotyl segments (6 mm long, 4 mm from the apical hook) are incubated in a 5 microM solution of the synthetic auxin analog 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, the concentration of EGL1 mRNA increases about 10-fold when the segments elongate most rapidly.
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- S C Wu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-4712, USA
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Ferrarese L, Trainotti L, Moretto P, Polverino de Laureto P, Rascio N, Casadoro G. Differential ethylene-inducible expression of cellulase in pepper plants. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 29:735-47. [PMID: 8541500 DOI: 10.1007/bf00041164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Ethylene promotes the abscission of leaves and the ripening of fruits in pepper plants, and in both events an increase in cellulase activity is observed. However, two enzyme isoforms (pI 7.2 and 8.5, respectively) are differentially involved in the two physiological phenomena. The pI 8.5 form has been purified from ripe fruits. It is a glycoprotein with an apparent molecular mass of 54 kDa. Two short peptides were sequenced and a very high homology to a tomato cellulase was observed. Polyclonal antibodies, raised against the purified enzyme, have allowed us to demonstrate that the observed ethylene-induced increase in cellulase activity is paralleled by de novo synthesis of protein. Three cDNAs (CX1, CX2 and CX3), encoding different cellulases, were obtained and characterized and their expression investigated. Accumulation of all three mRNAs is induced by ethylene treatment, though to different levels. CX1 is mainly expressed in ripe fruits while CX2 is especially found in abscission zones. CX3 accumulates at very low levels in activated abscission zones. Comparisons with other known cellulases demonstrate clear heterogeneity within the higher plant cellulases. Differences in ethylene inducibility and molecular structure suggest different physiological roles for cellulase in pepper plants.
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- L Ferrarese
- Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
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Carpita NC, Kanabus J. Chemical structure of the cell walls of dwarf maize and changes mediated by gibberellin. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1988; 88:671-8. [PMID: 16666367 PMCID: PMC1055643 DOI: 10.1104/pp.88.3.671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Dwarf maize (Zea mays L.), a mutant deficient in gibberellin synthesis, provides an excellent model to study the influence of gibberellin on biochemical processes related to plant development. Alterations in the chemical structure of the cell wall mediated by gibberellin were examined in seedlings of this mutant. The composition of the walls of roots, mesocotyl, coleoptile, and primary leaves of dwarf maize was similar to that of normal maize and other cereal grasses. Glucuronoarabinoxylans constituted the principal hemicelluloses, but walls also contained substantial amounts of xyloglucan and mixed-linkage beta-d-glucan. Root growth in dwarf maize was essentially normal, but growth of mesocotyl and primary leaves was severely retarded. Injection of the gibberellin into the cavity of the coleoptile resulted in a marked increase in elongation of the primary leaves. This elongation was accompanied by increases in total wall mass, but the proportion of beta-d-glucan decreased from 20% to 15% of the hemicellulosic polysaccharide. During leaf expansion, the proportion decreased further to only 10%. Through 4 days incubation, the proportion of beta-d-glucan in leaves of control seedlings without gibberellin was nearly constant. Extraction of exo- and endo-beta-d-glucan hydrolases from purified cell walls and assay against a purified oat bran beta-d-glucan demonstrated that gibberellin increased the activity of the endo-beta-d-glucan hydrolase. These and other data support the hypothesis that beta-d-glucan metabolism is central to control of cell expansion in cereal grasses.
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- N C Carpita
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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Zamost BL, McClary DO. The effects of plant growth regulators on cellulase production by Trichoderma reesei. Biotechnol Lett 1983. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00131899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Dhar AC, Patel KR, Shah CK. Role of ascorbic acid in auxin induced cell elongation--a cytochemical study. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1980; 69:101-9. [PMID: 7440258 DOI: 10.1007/bf00508371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Cytochemical detection of ascorbic acid in cultured root tips of Zea mays shows that dividing cells accumulate ascorbic acid in the cytoplasm. The localization pattern alters in the root tip as the cells begin to elongate. In elongating cells ascorbic acid is distinctly localized on cell walls. Ascorbic acid content per cell increases with the onset of cell elongation. Fully elongated cells contain fivefold more ascorbic acid than meristematic cells. Cytophotometric analysis reveals a sharp and positive correlation (r = +0.93) between percentage increase in content of ascorbic acid per cell and corresponding increase in cell size at different phases of cell elongation. IAA treatment to the roots raises the content of ascorbic acid per cell with a parallel increase in size of cell. Involvement of ascorbic acid in IAA induced cell elongation is discussed.
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Lewis LN, Koehler DE. Cellulase in the kidney bean seedling. PLANTA 1979; 146:1-5. [PMID: 24317939 DOI: 10.1007/bf00381248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/1978] [Accepted: 03/30/1979] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Several parts of the 12-d-old seedling of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Red Kidney were surveyed for cellulase activity. The laminar abscission zone and the cotyledon were highest in total cellulase while the petiole, stem, leaf and root had lesser activity. A portion of the cellulase from each tissue was associated with a membrane fraction which equilibrated on a sucrose density gradient at a density of 1.16 g/cm(3). Fortification of the buffer with 1 M NaCl was necessary for complete extraction of cellulase from all tissues. Ethylene treatment enhanced cellulase activity in the laminar abscission zone, the petiolar pulvinus, and somewhat in the stem, but not in the petiole nor the nodal region of the stem. Thus, those tissues which are target tissues for ethylene action also showed ethylene-enhanced cellulase activity.
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- L N Lewis
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA
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Verma DP, Hunter N, Bal AK. Asymbiotic association of Rhizobium with pea epicotyls treated with a plant hormone. PLANTA 1978; 138:107-110. [PMID: 24413952 DOI: 10.1007/bf00392925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/1977] [Accepted: 10/25/1977] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Treatment of epicotyls of dark-grown pea (Pisum sativum L.) seedlings with indole-3-acetic acid causes swelling of the tissue. Application of Rhizobium to the cut surface of the swollen tissue results in the development of an "infection". The infection spreads in the cortical cells and proceeds 2-3 mm deep into the stem within 3-4 days. An acetylene reduction assay used for detecting nitrogen-fixation capacity of the infected tissue was negative at 10% [O2]; however, if [O2] was reduced to below 1%, some activity could be detected. Ultrastructural observations indicate that the cytoplasmic contents of the infected cells are destroyed and no membrane structure around the bacteria is formed during this infection. Rhizobium does not appear to have developed any symbiotic relationship with the host. Failure to develop symbiosis appears to result in a parasitic or saprophytic association and the nitrogen fixed under such conditions may not be of any use to the plant.
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- D P Verma
- Department of Biology, McGill University, H3A 1B1, Montreal, P.Q., Canada
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Wong YS, Fincher GB, Maclachlan GA. Kinetic properties and substrate specificities of two cellulases from auxin-treated pea epicotyls. J Biol Chem 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)40670-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Bal AK, Verma DP, Byrne H, Maclachlan GA. Subcellular localization of cellulases in auxin-treated pea. J Cell Biol 1976; 69:97-105. [PMID: 767348 PMCID: PMC2110968 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.69.1.97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Two forms of cellulase, buffer soluble (BS) and buffer insoluble (BI), are induced as a result of auxin treatment of dark-grown pea epicotyls. These two cellulases have been purified to homogeneity. Antibodies raised against the purified cellulases were conjugated with ferritin and were used to localize the two cellulases. Tissue sections were fixed in cold paraformaldehyde-glutaraldehyde and incubated for 1 h in the ferritin conjugates. The sections were washed with continuous shaking for 18 h and subsequently postfixed in osmium tetroxide. Tissue incubated in unconjugated ferritin was used as a control. A major part of BI cellulase is localized at the inner surface of the cell wall in close association with microfibrils. BS cellulase is localized mainly within the distended endoplasmic reticulum. Gogli complex and plasma membrane appear to be completely devoid of any cellulase activity. These observations are consistent with cytochemical localization and biochemical data on the distribution of these two cellulases among various cell and membrane fractions.
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Jones M, Dropkin V. Cellular alterations induced in soybean roots by three endoparasitic nematodes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/0048-4059(75)90015-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Shore G, Maclachlan GA. The site of cellulose synthesis. Hormone treatment alters the intracellular location of alkali-insoluble beta-1,4-glucan (cellulose) synthetase activities. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1975; 64:557-71. [PMID: 1150746 PMCID: PMC2109539 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.64.3.557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Membrane preparations from growing regions of 8-day old Pisum sativum epicotyls contain multiple beta-1,4-glucan (cellulose) synthetase activities (UDP- or GDP-glucose: beta-1,4-glucan-glucosyl transferase), and the levels of some of these are influenced by treatments with the growth hormone, indoleacetic acid (IAA). When membranes from control epicotyl segments (zero time) are fractionated by isopycnic sedimentation in sucrose density gradients, all of the synthetase activities are associated mainly with Golgi membrane (density 1.55 g/cm3). After decapitation and treatment of epicotyls with IAA, synthetases also appear in a smooth vesicle fraction (density 1.11 g/cm3) which is rich in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) marker enzyme. Major fractions of these synthetases are not recovered in association with plasma membrane or washed cell walls. When [14-C]sucrose is supplied in vivo to segments +/- IAA, radioactive cellulose is deposited only in the wall. Cellulose or cellodextrin precursors do not accumulate in those membranes in which synthetase activities are recovered in vitro. In experiments where tissue slices containing intact cells are supplied with [14C]sugar nucleotide in vitro, alkali-insoluble beta-1,4-glucan is synthesized (presumably outside the protoplast) at rates which greatly exceeded (20-30 times) those obtained using isolated membrane preparations. Progressive disruption of cell structure results in increasing losses of this high activity. These results are consistent with the interpretation that Golgi and ER-associated synthetases are not themselves loci for cellulose synthesis in vivo, but represent enzymes in transit to sites of action at the wall:protoplast omterface. There they operate only if integrity of cellular organization is maintained.
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Verma DP, Maclachlan GA, Byrne H, Ewings D. Regulation and in vitro translation of messenger ribonucleic acid for cellulase from auxin-treated pea epicotyls. J Biol Chem 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)41886-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Sherwin JE, Gordon SA. The effect of auxin on the incorporation of [(3)H]thymidine into the DNA of pea epicotyls. PLANTA 1974; 116:65-72. [PMID: 24458993 DOI: 10.1007/bf00390204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/1973] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Preincubation of apical segments of etiolated peas (Pisum sativum L.) in indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) results in an inhibition of the incorporation of [(3)H] thymidine ([(3)H]TdR) into DNA. Preincubation in IAA for 4 h led to an inhibition of [(3)H]TdR incorporation only at the highest concentration of IAA tested (10(-4) M). A 20-h preincubation in various concentrations of IAA resulted in a bimodal dose response curve. High concentrations of IAA (10(-4) M) inhibited incorporation by ca. 50%, as did concentrations of about 10(-6)M, but 10(-5) M IAA did not inhibit this incorporation. The absorption of [(3)H]TdR was not affected by preincubation in IAA for either 4 or 20 h. When the apical segments were cut into two portions, the hook with the shoot apex, and the portion remaining below the apical hook, preincubation in IAA for 20 h gave different results for the upper and lower portions of the apical segments. In the lower portion, concentrations of about 5×10(-6) M gave a slight increase in [(3)H]TdR incorporation and 10(-4) M IAA inhibited DNA synthesis. In the upper portion, IAA pretreatment for 20 h resulted in a bimodal dose response curve which was very similar to that found initially for the entire apical segment. Thus the effect of pretreatment of apical segments with IAA depends upon the physiological status of the tissue. The rapidly expanding cells in the lower portion of the apical segments respond to IAA differently than the cells of the upper portion which are principally quiescent.
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- J E Sherwin
- Division of Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, Argonne, Illinois, USA
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Davies E, Larkins BA. Polyribosomes from Peas: II. Polyribosome Metabolism during Normal and Hormone-induced Growth. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1973; 52:339-45. [PMID: 16658559 PMCID: PMC366499 DOI: 10.1104/pp.52.4.339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Polyribosomes as large as 10-mers (strands of messenger RNA bearing 10 ribosomes) were isolated from etiolated pea (Pisum sativum L. var. Alaska) stem tissue during all stages of development when methods were used which essentially eliminated ribonuclease activity during extraction. Actively growing tissue, harvested from the apical 10 mm, yielded many large polyribosomes and a low (<20%) proportion of monosomes. Similar tissue, allowed to age by applying lanolin to decapitated apices, showed a progressive decrease in number of larger polyribosomes and an increase in the proportion of monosomes. Hormone treatments, which prolonged growth and delayed aging, delayed the loss in large polyribosomes and the increase in proportion of monosomes. Growth-stimulating hormones, added to previously aged tissue, stimulated the production of many large polyribosomes in pre-existing cells.It is suggested that (a) large polyribosomes occur in all regions of the pea stem, (b) changes in polyribosome distribution appear to precede changes in growth rate, (c) loss of larger polyribosomes is closely related to a decrease in mRNA templates followed more gradually by loss of ribosomes, (d) hormone-stimulated continuation of growth is accomplished through maintenance of available mRNA.Methods are described, involving detailed analysis of polysome distribution, which, although they cannot be used to measure changes in initiation of ribosomes on to mRNA, do permit measurement of the amount of polysomal-associated mRNA present in tissues at different stages of growth. These analyses lead to the further suggestion that hormone stimulation of growth of previously nongrowing tissue is accomplished primarily through an increase in available mRNA prior to synthesis of ribosomes.
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- E Davies
- Department of Botany, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68508
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Eisinger WR, Burg SP. Ethylene-induced Pea Internode Swelling: Its Relation to Ribonucleic Acid Metabolism, Wall Protein Synthesis, and Cell Wall Structure. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1972; 50:510-7. [PMID: 16658207 PMCID: PMC366180 DOI: 10.1104/pp.50.4.510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Exposure of etiolated pea (Pisum sativum L. var. Alaska) subapical sections to ethylene disrupts normal polar cell expansion, but fresh weight increase is little affected and the tissue expands radially, swelling. Ethylene has no effect on gross ribonucleic acid metabolism before or during the period when swelling occurs, but incorporation of (14)C-proline and leucine into wall-associated protein is markedly inhibited after an initial 3-hour lag period which precedes swelling. Ethylene affects the composition of this protein, altering the proline-hydroxyproline ratio. The gas also alters the optical birefringence pattern of the cell wall, indicating that the cellulose microfibrillar orientation has been changed.
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- W R Eisinger
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, and Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Coral Gables, Florida 33156
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Apelbaum A, Burg SP. Effect of Ethylene on Cell Division and Deoxyribonucleic Acid Synthesis in Pisum sativum. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1972; 50:117-24. [PMID: 16658105 PMCID: PMC367326 DOI: 10.1104/pp.50.1.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Ethylene and supraoptimal levels of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid inhibit the growth of the apical hook region of etiolated Pisum sativum (var. Alaska) seedlings by stopping almost all cell divisions. Cells are prevented from entering prophase. The hormones also retard cell division in intact root tips and completely stop the process in lateral buds. The latter inhibition is reversed partially by benzyl adenine. In root tips and the stem plumular and subhook regions, ethylene inhibits DNA synthesis. The magnitude of this inhibition is correlated with the degree of repression of cell division in meristematic tissue, suggesting that the effect on cell division results from a lack of DNA synthesis. Ethylene inhibits cell division within a few hours with a dose-response curve similar to that for most other actions of the gas. Experiments with seedlings grown under hypobaric conditions suggest that the gas naturally controls plumular expansion and cell division in the apical region.
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- A Apelbaum
- The Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, Florida 33156
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Capesius I, Bopp M, Clauss W. [The lag-phase of the effect of 5-FUDR on the DNA-synthesis and elongation growth in Sinapis alba]. PLANTA 1972; 103:65-73. [PMID: 24481472 DOI: 10.1007/bf00394607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/1971] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In the seedlings of Sinapis alba, the lag-phase between the application of 5-FUDR and the beginning of the inhibition of elongation growth and the inhibition of DNA-synthesis has been studied. The elongation was retarded after 7 h, and then, depending on the concentration of the FUDR, was completely stopped. In the cotyledons the DNA-synthesis was strongly reduced after about 50 minutes, and in the hypocotyls a lag-phase of less than 30 minutes was observed. With the addition of thymidine the DNA-synthesis was immediately resumed, while the growth began with a lag-phase of 5-7 h. In every case the change in the DNA-synthesis preceded the change in the elongation growth. The inhibition of elongation growth could, therefore, be the consequence of inhibition of DNA-synthesis.
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- I Capesius
- Botanisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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Birmingham BC, Maclachlan GA. Generation and suppression of microsomal ribonuclease activity after treatments with auxin and cytokinin. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1972; 49:371-5. [PMID: 16657963 PMCID: PMC365967 DOI: 10.1104/pp.49.3.371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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RNase activity was assayed in subcellular fractions of apical regions of Pisum sativum L. var. Alaska epicotyls after seedling decapitation and treatments with various growth regulators. High concentrations of applied indoleacetic acid caused a marked increase to occur in the RNase activity level associated with "heavy" microsomes, e.g., a 20-fold rise per unit RNA or protein in 3 days. This rise could be abolished by treating with the cytokinin benzyladenine along with indoleacetic acid. Nevertheless, indoleacetic acid and benzyladenine acted synergistically in their abilities to evoke swelling and net synthesis of RNA and protein. Polysomal profiles prepared after treatment with indoleacetic acid plus benzyladenine showed less degradation than profiles from any other treatment. It is concluded that auxin generates and cytokinin suppresses the activity of a particular membrane-bound RNase which can control turnover of the auxin-evoked polysomes required for growth in peas. Synergism between the two hormones in this system may be explained by the action of one to increase RNA synthesis and the other to decrease RNA destruction.
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- B C Birmingham
- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Thompson WF, Cleland R. Auxin and ribonucleic Acid synthesis in pea stem tissue as studied by deoxyribonucleic Acid-ribonucleic Acid hybridization. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1971; 48:663-70. [PMID: 16657858 PMCID: PMC396926 DOI: 10.1104/pp.48.6.663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The ability of auxin to alter gene transcription in pea (Pisum sativum L.) stem tissues has been investigated by means of DNA/RNA hybridization-competition techniques. In order to obtain reproducible hybridization with total nucleic acid preparations from plants it was found necessary to remove interfering substances, probably polysaccharides; this was accomplished by methoxyethanol extraction and precipitation with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide. When purified in this fashion, plant nucleic acids could be made to form hybrids which showed both species specificity and high thermal stability.No change in hybridizable RNA of stem sections in response to auxin could be detected over a 2- to 24-hour period, regardless of the auxin level employed. In contrast, when large doses of auxin were applied to intact pea seedlings, definite changes in the hybridizable RNA of stem tissue were detected both 8 and 24 hours after treatment. Many of the 2,4-D-induced species of RNA which were present at 24 hours were also present at 8 hours. Sections apparently lack a factor needed for the manifestation of the auxin effect on RNA synthesis.Since the hybridization assay employed does not measure all cellular RNA, it is still possible that certain RNA species may be synthesized in sections in response to auxin. However, the auxin promotion of cell elongation in such sections is clearly not associated with changes in hybridizable RNA such as have been reported for several hormonal responses in animal systems.
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- W F Thompson
- Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105
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Holm RE, Key JL. Inhibition of Auxin-induced Deoxyribonucleic Acid Synthesis and Chromatin Activity by 5-Fluorodeoxyuridine in Soybean Hypocotyl. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1971; 47:606-8. [PMID: 16657670 PMCID: PMC396736 DOI: 10.1104/pp.47.5.606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Rootless soybean (Glycine max) seedlings were used as a test system to examine the action of auxin on chromatin-directed RNA synthesis. Chromatin from the basal tissue of rootless seedlings (both control and auxin-treated) had RNA synthetic capacity similar to that of chromatin from comparably treated intact seedlings. When DNA synthesis normally induced in the basal tissue by auxin was blocked in the rootless seedlings by 5-fluorodeoxyuridine, the auxin enhancement of chromatin activity was inhibited 70%. This level was still three times the control level, indicating that auxin influenced the synthetic activity of existing DNA template. Experiments with Escherichia coli RNA polymerase revealed that chromatin from both auxin- and auxin plus 5-fluorodeoxyuridine-treated tissue saturated at higher levels than chromatin from control tissue.
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- R E Holm
- Diamond Shamrock Corporation, T. R. Evans Research Center, Painesville, Ohio 44077
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Davies PJ, Galston AW. Labeled indole-macromolecular conjugates from growing stems supplied with labeled indoleacetic Acid : I. Fractionation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1971; 47:435-41. [PMID: 16657637 PMCID: PMC365884 DOI: 10.1104/pp.47.3.435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Pea (Pisum sativum var. Alaska) and bean (Phaseolus vulgaris var. Red Kidney) stem sections treated with indoleacetic acid-1-(14)C, indoleacetic acid-2-(14)C, and indoleacetic acid-5-(3)H were homogenized, extracted with phenol, and the water-soluble, ethanol-insoluble material subjected to further fractionation. Following an 18-hour incubation period in indoleacetic acid-1-(14)C, most of the label was found as nonindole-(14)C in high molecular weight polysaccharide, as phenol extraction is specific for both RNA and polysaccharides. With indoleacetic acid-2-(14)C and -5-(3)H, and to a lesser extent with indoleacetic acid-1-(14)C, radioactive indoles were obtained by hydrolysis from a heterogeneous fraction between about 500 and 30,000 molecular weight, possibly polysaccharide in nature. Indoleacetic acid accounted for 8% and indole aldehyde accounted for 21% of the total radioactivity in the extract.
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- P J Davies
- Section of Genetics, Development and Physiology, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
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Lewis LN, Varner JE. Synthesis of Cellulase during Abscission of Phaseolus vulgaris Leaf Explants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1970; 46:194-9. [PMID: 16657433 PMCID: PMC396561 DOI: 10.1104/pp.46.2.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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When abscission in leaf explants from Phaseolus vulgaris, cultivar Red Kidney, was allowed to proceed while the explants were in (2)H(2)O, a 1.25% increase in the buoyant density of cellulase in a cesium chloride gradient was observed. These data indicate that the increase in cellulase activity during abscission is a result of the synthesis of new protein. Two differentially soluble forms of cellulase are present in the abscission zone. The form which is soluble only in a high salt buffer seems more closely related to the abscission process than the form which is soluble in dilute buffer. The correlation between changes in pull force and increase in cellulase activity and the effects of several hormones on cellulase activity are discussed.
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- L N Lewis
- Department of Horticultural Science, University of California, Riverside, California 92502
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Konar RN, Stanley RG. Wall-softening enzymes in the gynoecium and pollen of Hemerocallis fulva. PLANTA 1969; 84:304-310. [PMID: 24515495 DOI: 10.1007/bf00396422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/1968] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Variations in extractable cellulase and pectinase were followed during development of Hemerocallis (day lily) flowers. A peak in cellulase activity occurs in the pistil just prior to anthesis, followed by a 62% diminution in the enzyme activity at the time of anthesis. Cellulase activity, per mg protein, is about twice as high in the upper (stigma) portion as in the middle and lower one-third of the pistil tissues. No pectinase activity was detected in the pistil at all stages of development. Extractable pectinase is present at a maximum level in the very young ovary; it decreases rapidly as the ovary develops. Cellulase remains at a moderate level of activity throughout the development of the ovary, except for an increase of about 50% at pollination. Soluble cellulase and pectinase are found in mature pollen. The changes in the cell-wall hydrolytic enzymes in the pistil were pollen-tube growth. It may also promote changes in the cell walls of the pistil cells, although metabolism of the middle lamella during pollen germination is primarily controlled by pollen pectinases.
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- R N Konar
- Forest Physiology-Genetics Laboratory, School of Forestry, University of Florida, Gainesville
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Nissl D, Zenk MH. Evidence against induction of protein synthesis during auxin-induced initial elongation of Avena coleoptiles. PLANTA 1969; 89:323-341. [PMID: 24504511 DOI: 10.1007/bf00387233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/1969] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The timing of the response of cell elongation of oat coleoptiles to auxin was studied using a flow chamber. The lag period before a steadystate rate of growth is reached is dependent on the hormone concentration. By increasing the temperature and application of high concentrations of indoleacetic acid (IAA) the lag of the growth response can be gradually shortened, down to zero. All these data indicate that auxins do not induce or promote protein synthesis, whether at the transcriptional or at the translational level. Free (nonbound) IAA seems to be the regulator of the growth response; no metabolite of the oxindole pathway could be detected. There is no indication for an induced uptake of IAA which could explain the lag. The longitudinal distribution of IAA within the coleoptile is unequal which may add to the lag. The maximal initial growth rate is constant over a concentration range of 10(-8) to 10(-3) M IAA at 21°; the dose-response curve has a sigmoid shape. Under the conditions of the standard Avena section test (conducted for 24 hr) 80-90% of the initial IAA (10(-5) to 10(-8)M) are destroyed mainly by epiphytic bacteria.
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- D Nissl
- Institute of Plant Physiology, The Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
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Holm RE, Key JL. Hormonal regulation of cell elongation in the hypocotyl of rootless soybean: an evaluation of the role of DNA synthesis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1969; 44:1295-302. [PMID: 5393100 PMCID: PMC396259 DOI: 10.1104/pp.44.9.1295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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A method was developed where soybean seedlings were grown without roots to study the influence of hormones of root origin on shoot growth. Excision of the root resulted in inhibition of apical section growth and DNA synthesis and inhibited elongating section growth. A synthetic cytokinin restored DNA synthesis in the apical section, but did not influence growth in either the apical or elongating sections. Low concentrations of gibberellin with the cytokinin restored growth in the apical section. Gibberellin alone was sufficient to restore growth in the elongating section. An inhibitor of DNA synthesis, 5-fluorodeoxyuridine, inhibited the increase in apical section DNA without inhibiting control or gibberellin-induced growth in the elongating section. Experiments with (14)C-thymidine resulted in no DNA labeling differences in the elongating section under conditions where gibberellin-induced elongation varied from 50% to 73% above controls. It was concluded that gibberellin-induced elongation in soybean hypocotyl occurred in the absence of DNA synthesis. Gibberellin does stimulate DNA synthesis in the apical tissue apart from its effect on cell elongation. Excised soybean hypocotyl elongated maximally at 10(-6)m auxin. At higher auxin concentrations, fresh weight and ethylene production increased, but elongation was reduced. Addition of GA to the higher auxin concentrations resulted in a 50% inhibition in auxin-induced ethylene production and resumption in maximal elongation. Added ethylene inhibited elongation 30% at 2 mul/l. Addition of up to 100 mul/l ethylene did not inhibit elongation with GA present in the incubation medium. Thus GA may counteract ehtylene inhibition of cell elongation in addition to inhibiting ethylene production in auxin-treated tissues.
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Cell Growth and Cellulases: Regulation by Ethylene and Indole-3-acetic Acid in Shoots of Pisum sativum. Nature 1969. [DOI: 10.1038/223318a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Ruesink AW. Polysaccharidases and the control of cell wall elongation. PLANTA 1969; 89:95-107. [PMID: 24504383 DOI: 10.1007/bf00386978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/1969] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Avena coleoptile sections were treated with a fraction of a fungal filtrate containing a potent cellulase. Elongation rate was not affected although turgor pressure remained constant and wall extensibility was increased. These data show that the simple weakening of cell walls is not sufficient to promote growth and suggest that endogenous polysaccharidases are not the means by which the growth rate of the coleoptile is regulated.
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- A W Ruesink
- Botany Department, Indiana University, Bloomington
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Davies E, Maclachlan GA. Generation of cellulase activity during protein synthesis by pea microsomes in vitro. Arch Biochem Biophys 1969; 129:581-7. [PMID: 5772969 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(69)90217-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Davies E, Maclachlan GA. Effects of indoleacetic acid on intracellular distribution of beta-glucanase activities in the pea epicotyl. Arch Biochem Biophys 1968; 128:595-600. [PMID: 5704297 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(68)90068-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Datko AH, Maclachlan GA. Indoleacetic Acid and the synthesis of glucanases and pectic enzymes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1968; 43:735-42. [PMID: 16656834 PMCID: PMC1086918 DOI: 10.1104/pp.43.5.735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Indoleacetic acid (IAA) and/or inhibitors of DNA, RNA or protein synthesis were added to the apex of decapitated seedlings of Pisum sativum L. var. Alaska. At various times up to 4 days, enzymic protein was extracted from a segment of epicotyl immediately below the apex and assayed for its ability to hydrolyse polysaccharides or their derivatives. With the exception of amylase, the total amounts per segment of all of the tested enzymes increased due to IAA treatment. The development of beta-1,4-glucanase (cellulase) activity per unit of protein or fresh weight proceeded according to a typical sigmoid induction curve. Pectinase was formed for about 2 days in control segments and IAA treatment resulted in continued synthesis for at least another 2 days provided cell division took place. beta-1,3-glucanase and pectinesterase activities were only enhanced by IAA to the extent that total protein levels increased. Reaction mechanisms for these effects and functions for the enzymes during growth are discussed.
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- A H Datko
- Botany Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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