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Jamet E, Albenne C, Boudart G, Irshad M, Canut H, Pont-Lezica R. Recent advances in plant cell wall proteomics. Proteomics 2008; 8:893-908. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Deepak S, Shailasree S, Kini RK, Hause B, Shetty SH, Mithöfer A. Role of hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins in resistance of pearl millet against downy mildew pathogen Sclerospora graminicola. PLANTA 2007; 226:323-33. [PMID: 17554553 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-007-0484-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2006] [Accepted: 01/19/2007] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) are important plant cell wall components involved in plant defense response to pathogen attack. In the present study, a resistant pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) cultivar, IP18292, was compared with a susceptible cultivar, 7042S, to investigate the contribution of HRGPs in the successful defense against the phytopathogenic oomycete S. graminicola. Northern hybridization using MeHRGP cDNA, a heterologous probe from cassava, indicated steady accumulation of HRGP transcripts, from 2 h.p.i. onwards with a maximum at 6 h.p.i., in the resistant cultivar. This is followed by HRGPs accumulation at about 8 h.p.i. as revealed by Western-blot analysis. Immunocytochemical localization by tissue printing and confocal immunofluorescence microscopy indicated cell walls of parenchymatic cells and the vascular tissue of coleoptile as sites of HRGP deposition. In vitro studies in the presence of horseradish peroxidase and H2O2 showed cross-linking of pearl millet HRGPs, which occurred parallel to isodityrosine accumulation. Inducible high isodityrosine content was also observed in vivo in the resistant cultivar. Here, H2O2 was found to accumulate as twin burst at 1 and 6 h.p.i., whereas in the susceptible cultivar only an early single peak was detectable. Moreover, the amount of hydroxyproline in HRGPs was about twice as high in the resistant as in the susceptible cultivar. These results suggest that cell wall strengthening in S. graminicola-infected resistant pearl millet is brought about by a combination of polypeptide cross-linking of isodityrosine as well as by the high content of hydroxyproline in HRGPs, and H2O2, in contrast to the susceptible plant.
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- Shantharaj Deepak
- Department of Studies in Applied Botany and Biotechnology, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore, 570006, Karnataka, India
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Endrizzi BJ, Huang G, Kiser PF, Stewart RJ. Specific covalent immobilization of proteins through dityrosine cross-links. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2006; 22:11305-10. [PMID: 17154619 DOI: 10.1021/la0618216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Dityrosine cross-links are widely observed in nature in structural proteins such as elastin and silk. Natural oxidative cross-linking between tyrosine residues is catalyzed by a diverse group of metalloenzymes. Dityrosine formation is also catalyzed in vitro by metal-peptide complexes such as Gly-Gly-His-Ni(II). On the basis of these observations, a system was developed to specifically and covalently surface immobilize proteins through dityrosine cross-links. Methacrylate monomers of the catalytic peptide Gly-Gly-His-Tyr-OH (GGHY) and the Ni(II)-chelating group nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) were copolymerized with acrylamide into microbeads. Green fluorescent protein (GFP), as a model protein, was genetically tagged with a tyrosine-modified His6 peptide on its carboxy terminus. GFP-YGH6, specifically associated with the NTA-Ni(II) groups, was covalently coupled to the bead surface through dityrosine bond formation catalyzed by the colocalized GGHY-Ni(II) complex. After extensive washing with EDTA to disrupt metal coordination bonds, we observed that up to 75% of the initially bound GFP-YGH6 remained covalently bound to the bead while retaining its structure and activity. Dityrosine cross-linking was confirmed by quenching the reaction with free tyrosine. The method may find particular utility in the construction and optimization of protein microarrays.
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- Betsy J Endrizzi
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, 20 South 2030 East, Room 506, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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De Cnodder T, Verbelen JP, Vissenberg K. The Control of Cell Size and Rate of Elongation in the Arabidopsis Root. THE EXPANDING CELL 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/7089_2006_078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Moreno E, Nolasco LA, Caggiano L, Jackson RFW. Synthesis of orthogonally protected biaryl amino acid derivatives. Org Biomol Chem 2006; 4:3639-47. [PMID: 16990939 DOI: 10.1039/b609360d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The efficient and direct synthesis of protected biaryl amino acids, including dityrosine (50% overall yield over 3 steps), by Negishi cross-coupling of the serine-derived organozinc reagent 4 with iodo- and di-iodobiaryls, is reported. An improved, although still not perfect, diiodination of 2,2'-biphenol has been achieved using NMe3BnICl2-ZnCl2. Protection of phenolic hydroxyl groups as acetates, rather than benzyl ethers, is required for efficient cross-coupling, and evidence for acetyl migration has been observed during debenzylation of a substituted 2-acetoxy-2'-benzyloxybiaryl. Aromatic C-I to C-Cl conversion has been detected as a minor reaction pathway in the palladium-catalyzed coupling of aryl iodide 3b with organozinc reagent 4.
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- Eduardo Moreno
- Department of Chemistry, Dainton Building, University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Sheffield, UK S3 7HF
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Jamet E, Canut H, Boudart G, Pont-Lezica RF. Cell wall proteins: a new insight through proteomics. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2006; 11:33-9. [PMID: 16356755 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2005.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2005] [Revised: 09/28/2005] [Accepted: 11/25/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Cell wall proteins are essential constituents of plant cell walls; they are involved in modifications of cell wall components, wall structure, signaling and interactions with plasma membrane proteins at the cell surface. The application of proteomic approaches to the cell wall compartment raises important questions: are there technical problems specific to cell wall proteomics? What kinds of proteins can be found in Arabidopsis walls? Are some of them unexpected? What sort of post-translational modifications have been characterized in cell wall proteins to date? The purpose of this review is to discuss the experimental results obtained to date using proteomics, as well as some of the new questions challenging future research.
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- Elisabeth Jamet
- Surfaces Cellulaires et Signalisation chez les Végétaux, UMR 5546 CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier, 24, Chemin de Borde Rouge, BP42617, 31326-Castanet-Tolosan, France
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De Cnodder T, Vissenberg K, Van Der Straeten D, Verbelen JP. Regulation of cell length in the Arabidopsis thaliana root by the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane- 1-carboxylic acid: a matter of apoplastic reactions. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2005; 168:541-50. [PMID: 16313637 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01540.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Treatment of the Arabidopsis thaliana root with the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) immediately imposes a reduced maximal cell length beyond which further elongation is blocked. Here, we investigated possible apoplastic reactions involved in the inhibition of cell elongation. Five-day-old Arabidopsis seedlings were transferred to a growth medium supplemented with ACC and the effect on root cell length was recorded after 3 h of treatment. Altered characteristics in the apoplast of the nonelongating cells in the ACC-treated root, such as 'reactive oxygen species' (ROS) production and callose deposition, were detected using specific fluorochromes. The presence of functional hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) and the crosslinking of these cell-wall proteins are essential in limiting cell elongation. The ROS that drive the oxidative crosslinking of HRGPs, accumulate in the apoplast of cells in the zone where cell elongation stops. In the same cells, callose is deposited in the cell wall. The final cell length in the Arabidopsis root treated for a short period with ACC is determined in the zone of fast elongation. Both HRGPs crosslinking by ROS and callose deposition in the cell wall of this zone are suggested as causes for the reduced cell elongation.
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- T De Cnodder
- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
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Cyran MR, Saulnier L. Cell wall fractions isolated from outer layers of rye grain by sequential treatment with alpha-amylase and proteinase: structural investigation of polymers in two ryes with contrasting breadmaking quality. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2005; 53:9213-24. [PMID: 16277425 DOI: 10.1021/jf051556e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Recent studies have indicated that some structural features of arabinoxylans, the major cell wall polysaccharides, might be potential quality markers in the selection of rye breeding materials. To specify the most appropriate characteristics, the differences in the structure of cell wall components were studied in two ryes with high and low breadmaking qualities. Two cell wall fractions were isolated from the outer layers of the grain (pooled shorts and bran fractions) by a consecutive water extraction with alpha-amylase (WE-A) and proteinase K (WE-P). Polysaccharides predominated in the WE-A fraction (approximately 64%, mainly arabinoxylans). By contrast, the WE-P fraction contained mostly protein (approximately 63%), and its level of polysaccharides was relatively low (approximately 18%). The 1H NMR and sugar analysis of the ammonium sulfate precipitated subfractions revealed that the WE-A was built of four arabinoxylan populations with marked structural differences (arabinose-to-xylose ratios, Ara/Xyl, of approximately 0.3, 0.5, 0.8, and 1.2). Instead, the arabinoxylans present in the WE-P were generally enriched in disubstituted xylopyranosyl residues. The ratio of phenolic components to arabinose residues in the WE-P fraction (indicated by 1H NMR) and the proportion of polymers with the highest molecular weights in the WE-A fraction (revealed by HPSEC) distinguished well two ryes with diverse breadmaking qualities. Much less obvious differences between both ryes were observed in the ratio of amide I to amide II band intensities of FTIR spectra for the WE-P and in the level of phenolic acids and ferulic acid dehydrodimers for both cell wall preparations.
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- Malgorzata R Cyran
- Department of Plant Biochemistry and Physiology, Institute of Plant Breeding and Acclimatization, Radzikow, 05-870 Blonie, Poland.
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Soukup A, Votrubová O. Wound-induced vascular occlusions in tissues of the reed Phragmites australis: their development and chemical nature. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2005; 167:415-24. [PMID: 15998395 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01434.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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This work focuses on the development of vascular occlusions, which are gels resealing the wounded vascular systems of injured organs, in the common reed Phragmites australis. Their formation seems to be crucial in keeping the internal environment of the plant stable. Histochemical tests, combined with an extraction series, were used to follow changes in the chemical nature of gels during their development. It was found that the first gel material was secreted by living cells in the vicinity of the incision within 1 or 2 d after wounding. Early gels were colourless and mainly composed of acidic polysaccharides interlinked by Ca2+ bridges. The properties of the gel material gradually changed during maturation. The matrix of polysaccharides in the early gels was later modified and interlinked by other components, resulting in a highly resistant material. Structural proteins were identified as the principal interlocking components of the material, and were responsible for its high resistance.
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- Ales Soukup
- Department of Plant Physiology, Charles University, Vinicná 5, Prague 128 44, Czech Republic.
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Held MA, Tan L, Kamyab A, Hare M, Shpak E, Kieliszewski MJ. Di-isodityrosine is the intermolecular cross-link of isodityrosine-rich extensin analogs cross-linked in vitro. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:55474-82. [PMID: 15465824 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m408396200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Extensins are cell wall hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins that form covalent networks putatively involving tyrosyl and lysyl residues in cross-links catalyzed by one or more extensin peroxidases. The precise cross-links remain to be chemically identified both as network components in muro and as enzymic products generated in vitro with native extensin monomers as substrates. However, some extensin monomers contain variations within their putative cross-linking motifs that complicate cross-link identification. Other simpler extensins are recalcitrant to isolation including the ubiquitous P3-type extensin whose major repetitive motif, Hyp)(4)-Ser-Hyp-Ser-(Hyp)(4)-Tyr-Tyr-Tyr-Lys, is of particular interest, not least because its Tyr-Tyr-Tyr intramolecular isodityrosine cross-link motifs are also putative candidates for further intermolecular cross-linking to form di-isodityrosine. Therefore, we designed a set of extensin analogs encoding tandem repeats of the P3 motif, including Tyr --> Phe and Lys --> Leu variations. Expression of these P3 analogs in Nicotiana tabacum cells yielded glycoproteins with virtually all Pro residues hydroxylated and subsequently arabinosylated and with likely galactosylated Ser residues. This was consistent with earlier analyses of P3 glycopeptides isolated from cell wall digests and the predictions of the Hyp contiguity hypothesis. The tyrosine-rich P3 analogs also contained isodityrosine, formed in vivo. Significantly, these isodityrosine-containing analogs were further cross-linked in vitro by an extensin peroxidase to form the tetra-tyrosine intermolecular cross-link amino acid di-isodityrosine. This is the first identification of an inter-molecular cross-link amino acid in an extensin module and corroborates earlier suggestions that di-isodityrosine represents one mechanism for cross-linking extensins in muro.
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- Michael A Held
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
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Guzzardi P, Genot G, Jamet E. The Nicotiana sylvestris extensin gene, Ext 1.2A, is expressed in the root transition zone and upon wounding. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2004; 1680:83-92. [PMID: 15488988 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2004.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2003] [Accepted: 08/13/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The Ext 1.2A gene of Nicotiana sylvestris L. encoding an extensin, a cell wall structural protein, was characterized. Ext 1.2A encodes a polypeptide of 311 amino acids having a highly repetitive structure and showing extensin features such as Ser-(Pro)(4) repeats and a high content of Tyr and Lys. The expression profile of the gene was demonstrated using the reporter GUS (beta-glucuronidase) fused to its promoter region (-630/+124, relative to the transcription start site) and by RNA gel blots. The results show that the (-630/+124) Ext 1.2A/GUS gene fusion is expressed in the root transition zone, where cells undergo an isodiametric growth but have not yet reached the rapid elongation phase, in stem inner and outer phloems and in cortical cells at the stem/petiole junction. The Ext 1.2A gene is also induced after wounding of stems, ribs, leaves or roots. The gene fusion is expressed in stem cortical cells, in ribs and at leaf edges upon wounding. These data suggest that the (-630/+124) promoter region contains regulatory elements responsible for expression in roots and stems, as well as for response to wounding in stems and leaves.
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- Patricia Guzzardi
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, UPR CNRS 2356, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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Fry SC. Primary cell wall metabolism: tracking the careers of wall polymers in living plant cells. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2004; 161:641-675. [PMID: 33873719 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.00980.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 240] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Numerous examples have been presented of enzyme activities, assayed in vitro, that appear relevant to the synthesis of structural polysaccharides, and to their assembly and subsequent degradation in the primary cell walls (PCWs) of higher plants. The accumulation of the corresponding mRNAs, and of the (immunologically recognized) proteins, has often also (or instead) been reported. However, the presence of these mRNAs, antigens and enzymic activities has rarely been shown to correspond to enzyme action in the living plant cell. In some cases, apparent enzymic action is observed in vivo for which no enzyme activity can be detected in in-vitro assays; the converse also occurs. Methods are reviewed by which reactions involving structural wall polysaccharides can be tracked in vivo. Special attention is given to xyloglucan endotransglucosylase (XET), one of the two enzymic activities exhibited in vitro by xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase (XTH) proteins, because of its probable importance in the construction and restructuring of the PCW's major hemicellulose. Attention is also given to the possibility that some reactions observed in the PCW in vivo are not directly enzymic, possibly involving the action of hydroxyl radicals. It is concluded that some proposed wall enzymes, for example XTHs, do act in vivo, but that for other enzymes this is not proven. Contents I. Primary cell walls: composition, deposition and roles 642 II. Reactions that have been proposed to occur in primary cell walls 645 III. Tracking the careers of wall components in vivo: evidence for action of enzymes in the walls of living plant cells 656 IV. Evidence for the occurrence of nonenzymic polymer scission in vivo? 666 VI. Conclusion 667 References 667.
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- Stephen C Fry
- The Edinburgh Cell Wall Group, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Daniel Rutherford Building, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, UK
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Merkouropoulos G, Shirsat AH. The unusual Arabidopsis extensin gene atExt1 is expressed throughout plant development and is induced by a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses. PLANTA 2003; 217:356-66. [PMID: 14520562 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-003-1002-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2002] [Accepted: 01/18/2003] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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We detail the expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. atExt1 extensin gene. atExt1 is normally expressed in roots and inflorescences, and is induced by wounding, exogenously supplied salicylic acid, methyl jasmonate, auxins and brassinosteroids. Northern assays and histochemical analysis of transgenics expressing an atExt1:: gus fusion show that this gene is also induced by the brassica pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris and that this induction is restricted to tissues close to the site of infection. Expression at regions of abscission and senescence also implicates atExt1 in these important developmental processes.
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Milani M, Savard PY, Ouellet H, Ascenzi P, Guertin M, Bolognesi M. A TyrCD1/TrpG8 hydrogen bond network and a TyrB10TyrCD1 covalent link shape the heme distal site of Mycobacterium tuberculosis hemoglobin O. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:5766-71. [PMID: 12719529 PMCID: PMC156275 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1037676100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Truncated hemoglobins (Hbs) are small hemoproteins, identified in microorganisms and in some plants, forming a separate cluster within the Hb superfamily. Two distantly related truncated Hbs, trHbN and trHbO, are expressed at different developmental stages in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sequence analysis shows that the two proteins share 18% amino acid identities and belong to different groups within the truncated Hb cluster. Although a specific defense role against nitrosative stress has been ascribed to trHbN (expressed during the Mycobacterium stationary phase), no clear functions have been recognized for trHbO, which is expressed throughout the Mycobacterium growth phase. The 2.1-A crystal structure of M. tuberculosis cyano-met trHbO shows that the protein assembles in a compact dodecamer. Six of the dodecamer subunits are characterized by a double conformation for their CD regions and, most notably, by a covalent bond linking the phenolic O atom of TyrB10 to the aromatic ring of TyrCD1, in the heme distal cavity. All 12 subunits display a cyanide ion bound to the heme Fe atom, stabilized by a tight hydrogen-bonded network based on the (globin very rare) TyrCD1 and TrpG8 residues. The small apolar AlaE7 residue leaves room for ligand access to the heme distal site through the conventional "E7 path," as proposed for myoglobin. Different from trHbN, where a 20-A protein matrix tunnel is held to sustain ligand diffusion to an otherwise inaccessible heme distal site, the topologically related region in trHbO hosts two protein matrix cavities.
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- Mario Milani
- Department of Physics-National Institute of Physics of Matter, Center for Excellence in Biomedical Research, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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Bringmann G, Günther C, Ochse M, Schupp O, Tasler S. Biaryls in nature: a multi-facetted class of stereochemically, biosynthetically, and pharmacologically intriguing secondary metabolites. FORTSCHRITTE DER CHEMIE ORGANISCHER NATURSTOFFE = PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS. PROGRES DANS LA CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES ORGANIQUES NATURELLES 2002; 82:1-249. [PMID: 11892255 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6227-9_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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- G Bringmann
- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Germany.
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MacDougall AJ, Brett GM, Morris VJ, Rigby NM, Ridout MJ, Ring SG. The effect of peptide-pectin interactions on the gelation behaviour of a plant cell wall pectin. Carbohydr Res 2001; 335:115-26. [PMID: 11567642 DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6215(01)00221-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The effect of basic peptides on the gelation of a pectin from the cell wall of tomato was examined through the determination of gel stiffness, and swelling behaviour of the gel in water. Poly-L-lysine, poly-L-arginine, and a synthetic peptide, designed to mimic a sequence of basic amino acids found in a plant cell wall extensin, act as crosslinking agents. Circular dichroism studies on the interaction of synthetic extensin peptides with sodium polygalacturonate demonstrated that a conformational change was induced as a result of their complexation. In addition to their effect as crosslinking agents, the polycationic peptides reduced the swelling of the pectin network in water.
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- A J MacDougall
- Division of Food Materials Science, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UA, UK.
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Tilley KA, Benjamin RE, Bagorogoza KE, Okot-Kotber BM, Prakash O, Kwen H. Tyrosine cross-links: molecular basis of gluten structure and function. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2001; 49:2627-2632. [PMID: 11368646 DOI: 10.1021/jf010113h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The formation of the large protein structure known as "gluten" during dough-mixing and bread-making processes is extremely complex. It has been established that a specific subset of the proteins comprising gluten, the glutenin subunits, directly affects dough formation and breadmaking quality. Glutenin subunits have no definitive structural differences that can be directly correlated to their ability to form gluten and affect dough formation or breadmaking quality. Many protein structural studies, as well as mixing and baking studies, have postulated that disulfide bonds are present in the gluten structure and contribute to the process of dough formation through the process of disulfide-sulfhydryl exchange. Evidence presented here indicates that tyrosine bonds form in wheat doughs during the processes of mixing and baking, contributing to the structure of the gluten network. The relative contributions of tyrosine bonds and disulfide--sulfhydryl interchange are discussed.
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- K A Tilley
- Department of Grain Science and Industry, 201 Shellenberger Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
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Otte O, Barz W. Characterization and oxidative in vitro cross-linking of an extensin-like protein and a proline-rich protein purified from chickpea cell walls. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2000; 53:1-5. [PMID: 10656400 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9422(99)00463-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Two cell wall proteins from chickpea, known to be rapidly insolubilised by an elicitor-stimulated oxidative burst in-vivo, were purified from suspension cells. N-terminal protein sequencing revealed them as a proline-rich protein and an extensin-like protein. Oxidative cross-linking could be modelled in an in vitro system utilising horseradish peroxidase, H2O2 and the substrate proteins.
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- O Otte
- Institut für Biochemie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany
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Fowler TJ, Bernhardt C, Tierney ML. Characterization and expression of four proline-rich cell wall protein genes in Arabidopsis encoding two distinct subsets of multiple domain proteins. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 121:1081-92. [PMID: 10594096 PMCID: PMC59476 DOI: 10.1104/pp.121.4.1081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/1999] [Accepted: 08/06/1999] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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We have characterized the molecular organization and expression of four proline-rich protein genes from Arabidopsis (AtPRPs). These genes predict two classes of cell wall proteins based on DNA sequence identity, repetitive motifs, and domain organization. AtPRP1 and AtPRP3 encode proteins containing an N-terminal PRP-like domain followed by a C-terminal domain that is biased toward P, T, Y, and K. AtPRP2 and AtPRP4 represent a second, novel group of PRP genes that encode two-domain proteins containing a non-repetitive N-terminal domain followed by a PRP-like region rich in P, V, K, and C. Northern hybridization analysis indicated that AtPRP1 and AtPRP3 are exclusively expressed in roots, while transcripts encoding AtPRP2 and AtPRP4 were most abundant in aerial organs of the plant. Histochemical analyses of promoter/beta-glucuronidase fusions localized AtPRP3 expression to regions of the root containing root hairs. AtPRP2 and AtPRP4 expression was detected in expanding leaves, stems, flowers, and siliques. In addition, AtPRP4 expression was detected in stipules and during the early stages of lateral root formation. These studies support a model for involvement of PRPs in specifying cell-type-specific wall structures, and provide the basis for a genetic approach to dissect the function of PRPs during growth and development.
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- T J Fowler
- Department of Botany and Agricultural Biochemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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Domingo C, Saurí A, Mansilla E, Conejero V, Vera P. Identification of a novel peptide motif that mediates cross-linking of proteins to cell walls. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 20:563-70. [PMID: 10652128 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1999.00631.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A cDNA clone representing a member of a novel class of cell wall proteins was isolated from tobacco plants. We have designated this protein NtTLRP for tyrosine- and lysine-rich protein. It is structurally related to the previously identified TLRP from tomato plants, sharing a high amino-acid sequence similarity at the C-terminal region. This region contains what appears to be a novel peptide motif which we call CD for cysteine-rich domain, and which is common to several other cell-wall proteins. By using a functional test in transgenic plants, we demonstrate that the presence of the CD domain is per se sufficient to cross-link previously soluble proteins to the cell wall. We present evidence that NtTLRP is cross-linked and specifically localizes to the cell wall of lignified cells. The highly localized deposition of NtTLRP in these cells indicates that this class of cell-wall proteins may have a specialized function in the formation of xylem tissue.
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- C Domingo
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Universidad Politécnica-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022-Valencia, Spain
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Percy JD, Philip R, Vodkin LO. A defective seed coat pattern (Net) is correlated with the post-transcriptional abundance of soluble proline-rich cell wall proteins. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 40:603-13. [PMID: 10480384 DOI: 10.1023/a:1006221115522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The pigmented seed coats of several soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) plant introductions and isolines have unusual defects that result in cracking of the mature seed coat exposing the endosperm and cotyledons. It has previously been shown that the T (tawny) locus that controls the color of trichomes on stems and leaves also has an effect on both the structure and pigmentation of the seed coat. Distribution of pigmentation on the seed coat is controlled by alleles of the I (inhibitor) locus. It was also found that total seed coat proteins were difficult to extract from pigmented seed coats with i T genotypes because they have procyanidins that exhibit tannin properties. We report that the inclusion of poly-L-proline in the extraction buffer out-competes proteins for binding to procyanidins. Once this problem was solved, we examined expression of the proline-rich cell wall proteins PRP1 and PRP2 in pigmented genotypes with the dominant T allele. We found that both homozygous i T and i t genotypes have reduced soluble PRP1 levels. The epistatic interaction of the double recessive genotype at both loci is necessary to produce the pigmented, defective seed coat phenotype characteristic of seed coats with the double recessive i and t alleles. This implies a novel effect of an enzyme in the flavonoid pathway on seed coat structure in addition to its effect on flavonoids, anthocyanidins, and proanthocyanidins. No soluble PRP1 polypeptides were detectable in pigmented seed coats (i T genotypes) of isolines that also display a net-like pattern of seed coat cracking, known as the Net defect. PRP2 was also absent in one of the these lines. However, both PRP1 and PRP2 cytoplasmic mRNAs were found in the Net-defective seed coats. Together with in vitro translation studies, these results suggest that the absence of soluble PRP polypeptides in the defective Net lines is post-translational and could be due to a more rapid or premature insolubilization of PRP polypeptides within the cell wall matrix.
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- J D Percy
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana 61801, USA
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Enantioselective synthesis of dityrosine and isodityrosine via asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis. Tetrahedron Lett 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(98)02616-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Uchida K, Muramatsu T, Jamet E, Furuya M. Control of expression of a gene encoding an extensin by phytochrome and a blue light receptor in spores of Adiantum capillus-veneris L. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 15:813-819. [PMID: 9807820 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00264.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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In the present study, using a newly developed fluorescent differential display technique, we have carried out large-scale screening for genes whose expression was regulated by phytochrome and antagonistically by a blue light receptor in the spores of the fern Adiantum capillus-veneris L. Spores after imbibition were briefly irradiated with red, red/blue or blue light and collected 8 h after the irradiation. Total RNA was isolated from each sample and used to make cDNA with an oligo-dT primer. The cDNA was then used as a template for PCR with the oligo-dT primer and 80 arbitrary primers. The resulting PCR products were analyzed by an automated fluorescent DNA sequencer. Among 8000 displayed bands, we identified 15 up-regulated and four down-regulated bands by red light, and this red light effect was irreversibly reversed by blue light. We cloned one of the up-regulated cDNA fragments and used it to screen a cDNA library prepared from the spores. The isolated insert is predicted to encode Ser-(Pro)n repeats and showed homology with cell wall-associated extensins. The expression of this cDNA was induced 8 h after a red light treatment and the red light induction was photoreversibly prevented by far-red light and photoirreversibly by blue light. The mRNA of this gene was detectable 4 h after red light irradiation and gradually increased in germinating spores.
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- K Uchida
- Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
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Fry SC. Oxidative scission of plant cell wall polysaccharides by ascorbate-induced hydroxyl radicals. Biochem J 1998; 332 ( Pt 2):507-15. [PMID: 9601081 PMCID: PMC1219507 DOI: 10.1042/bj3320507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 355] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Scission of plant cell wall polysaccharides in vivo has generally been assumed to be enzymic. However, in the presence of l-ascorbate, such polysaccharides are shown to undergo non-enzymic scission under physiologically relevant conditions. Scission of xyloglucan by 1 mM ascorbate had a pH optimum of 4.5, and the maximum scission rate was reached after a 10-25-min delay. Catalase prevented the scission, whereas added H2O2 (0.1-10 mM) increased the scission rate and shortened the delay. Ascorbate caused detectable xyloglucan scission above approx. 5 microM. Dehydroascorbate was much less effective. Added Cu2+ (>0.3 microM) also increased the rate of ascorbate-induced scission; EDTA was inhibitory. The rate of scission in the absence of added metals appeared to be attributable to the traces of Cu (2.8 mg.kg-1) present in the xyloglucan. Ascorbate-induced scission of xyloglucan was inhibited by radical scavengers; their effectiveness was proportional to their rate constants for reaction with hydroxyl radicals (.OH). It is proposed that ascorbate non-enzymically reduces O2 to H2O2, and Cu2+ to Cu+, and that H2O2 and Cu+ react to form .OH, which causes oxidative scission of polysaccharide chains. Evidence is reviewed to suggest that, in the wall of a living plant cell, Cu+ and H2O2 are formed by reactions involving ascorbate and its products, dehydroascorbate and oxalate. Systems may thus be in place to produce apoplastic .OH radicals in vivo. Although .OH radicals are often regarded as detrimental, they are so short-lived that they could act as site-specific oxidants targeted to play a useful role in loosening the cell wall, e.g. during cell expansion, fruit ripening and organ abscission.
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- S C Fry
- The Edinburgh Cell Wall Group, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, UK.
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The nature of cell wall proteins is as varied as the many functions of plant cell walls. With the exception of glycine-rich proteins, all are glycosylated and contain hydroxyproline (Hyp). Again excepting glycine-rich proteins, they also contain highly repetitive sequences that can be shared between them. The majority of cell wall proteins are cross-linked into the wall and probably have structural functions, although they may also participate in morphogenesis. On the other hand, arabinogalactan proteins are readily soluble and possibly play a major role in cell-cell interactions during development. The interactions of these proteins between themselves and with other wall components is still unknown, as is how wall components are assembled. The possible functions of cell wall proteins are suggested based on repetitive sequence, localization in the plant body, and the general morphogenetic pattern in plants.
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- Gladys I. Cassab
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, National University of Mexico, Apdo. 510-3 Cuernavaca, Morelia 62250, Mexico; e-mail:
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Brady JD, Sadler IH, Fry SC. Pulcherosine, an oxidatively coupled trimer of tyrosine in plant cell walls: its role in cross-link formation. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 1998; 47:349-53. [PMID: 9433813 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9422(97)00592-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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An oxidatively coupled trimer of tyrosine has been isolated from hydrolysates of primary cell walls of a tomato cell culture. UV-absorption, fluorescence and 1H NMR spectra showed that the trimer was pulcherosine, composed of isodityrosine and tyrosine oxidatively coupled via a biphenyl linkage such that the aromatic core is 2,2'-dihydroxy-3-phenoxybiphenyl. Pulcherosine could act as an intermediate in the conversion of isodityrosine to the tetramer, di-isodityrosine. Steric considerations show that the three tyrosine units of pulcherosine could not be near-neighbour residues within a single polypeptide chain. Pulcherosine therefore forms inter-polypeptide cross-links and/or wide intra-polypeptide loops.
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- J D Brady
- Edinburgh Cell Wall Group, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Edinburgh, U.K
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Growing plant cells are shaped by an extensible wall that is a complex amalgam of cellulose microfibrils bonded noncovalently to a matrix of hemicelluloses, pectins, and structural proteins. Cellulose is synthesized by complexes in the plasma membrane and is extruded as a self-assembling microfibril, whereas the matrix polymers are secreted by the Golgi apparatus and become integrated into the wall network by poorly understood mechanisms. The growing wall is under high tensile stress from cell turgor and is able to enlarge by a combination of stress relaxation and polymer creep. A pH-dependent mechanism of wall loosening, known as acid growth, is characteristic of growing walls and is mediated by a group of unusual wall proteins called expansins. Expansins appear to disrupt the noncovalent bonding of matrix hemicelluloses to the microfibril, thereby allowing the wall to yield to the mechanical forces generated by cell turgor. Other wall enzymes, such as (1-->4) beta-glucanases and pectinases, may make the wall more responsive to expansin-mediated wall creep whereas pectin methylesterases and peroxidases may alter the wall so as to make it resistant to expansin-mediated creep.
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- D J Cosgrove
- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
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Brady JD, Fry SC. Formation of Di-Isodityrosine and Loss of Isodityrosine in the Cell Walls of Tomato Cell-Suspension Cultures Treated with Fungal Elicitors or H2O2. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1997; 115:87-92. [PMID: 12223793 PMCID: PMC158463 DOI: 10.1104/pp.115.1.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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About 84% of the hydroxyproline residues in a cell culture of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum x Lycopersicon peruvianum) were present in phenol-inextractable (i.e. covalently wall-bound) material. Treatment of the cells with any of three fungal elicitors (wall fragments from Phytophthora megasperma and Pythium aphanidermatum and xylanase from Aureobasidium pullulans) or with 1 mM H2O2 had little effect on the quantity of phenolinextractable hydroxyproline per milligram of freeze-dried cells. However, each treatment induced a decrease in the content of phenol-inextractable isodityrosine (Idt) residues. Each treatment, except with the P. megasperma fragments, also induced an increase in phenol-inextractable di- (Di-Idt). The increase in Di-Idt partly accounted for the loss of Idt. We conclude that the elicitors and H2O2 acted to reinforce the existing cross-linking of cell wall (glyco)proteins by evoking oxidative coupling reactions to convert Idt to Di-Idt plus unidentified products. The promotion of cross-linking by elicitor treatment is proposed to be a defensive response that restricts the penetration of pathogens.
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- J. D. Brady
- The Edinburgh Cell Wall Group, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Daniel Rutherford Building, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, United Kingdom
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Rapid generation of superoxide and accumulation of H2O2 is a characteristic early feature of the hypersensitive response following perception of pathogen avirulence signals. Emerging data indicate that the oxidative burst reflects activation of a membrane-bound NADPH oxidase closely resembling that operating in activated neutrophils. The oxidants are not only direct protective agents, but H2O2 also functions as a substrate for oxidative cross-linking in the cell wall, as a threshold trigger for hypersensitive cell death, and as a diffusible signal for induction of cellular protectant genes in surrounding cells. Activation of the oxidative burst is a central component of a highly amplified and integrated signal system, also involving salicylic acid and perturbations of cytosolic Ca2+, which underlies the expression of disease-resistance mechanisms.
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- Chris Lamb
- 1Plant Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, 2Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402
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