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Bianchi A, Santini G, Piombino P, Pittari E, Sanmartin C, Moio L, Modesti M, Bellincontro A, Mencarelli F. Nitrogen maceration of wine grape: an alternative and sustainable technique to carbonic maceration. Food Chem 2022; 404:134138. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.134138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2022] [Revised: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/04/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Zhao X, Tian JJ, Yu H, Bryksa BC, Dupuis JH, Ou X, Qian Z, Song C, Wang S, Yada RY. Insights into the mechanism of membrane fusion induced by the plant defense element, plant-specific insert. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:14548-14562. [PMID: 32651232 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In plants, many natural defense mechanisms include cellular membrane fusion as a way to resist infection by external pathogens. Several plant proteins mediate membrane fusion, but the detailed mechanism by which they promote fusion is less clear. Understanding this process could provide valuable insights into these proteins' physiological functions and guide bioengineering applications (i.e. the design of antimicrobial proteins). The plant-specific insert (PSI) from Solanum tuberosum can help reduce certain pathogen attack via membrane fusion. To gain new insights into the process of PSI-induced membrane fusion, a combined approach of NMR, FRET, and in silico studies was used. Our results indicate that (i) under acidic conditions, the PSI experiences a monomer-dimer equilibrium, and the dimeric PSI induces membrane fusion below a certain critical pH; (ii) after fusion, the PSI resides in a highly dehydrated environment with limited solvent accessibility, suggesting its capability in reducing repulsive dehydration forces between liposomes to facilitate fusion; and (iii) as shown by molecular dynamics simulations, the PSI dimer can bind stably to membrane surfaces and can bridge liposomes in close proximity, a critical step for the membrane fusion. In summary, this study provides new and unique insights into the mechanisms by which the PSI and similar proteins induce membrane fusion.
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- Xiaoli Zhao
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and Beijing NMR Center, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Food, Nutrition, and Health Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Food, Nutrition, and Health Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Food, Nutrition, and Health Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- MOH Key Laboratory, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China
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- MOH Key Laboratory, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China
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- Center for Quantitative Biology, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and Beijing NMR Center, Peking University, Beijing, China; Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- Food, Nutrition, and Health Program, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Martinoia E. Vacuolar Transporters - Companions on a Longtime Journey. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 176:1384-1407. [PMID: 29295940 PMCID: PMC5813537 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.01481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Biochemical and electrophysiological studies on plant vacuolar transporters became feasible in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when methods to isolate large quantities of intact vacuoles and purified vacuolar membrane vesicles were established. However, with the exception of the H+-ATPase and H+-PPase, which could be followed due to their hydrolytic activities, attempts to purify tonoplast transporters were for a long time not successful. Heterologous complementation, T-DNA insertion mutants, and later proteomic studies allowed the next steps, starting from the 1990s. Nowadays, our knowledge about vacuolar transporters has increased greatly. Nevertheless, there are several transporters of central importance that have still to be identified at the molecular level or have even not been characterized biochemically. Furthermore, our knowledge about regulation of the vacuolar transporters is very limited, and much work is needed to get a holistic view about the interplay of the vacuolar transportome. The huge amount of information generated during the last 35 years cannot be summarized in such a review. Therefore, I decided to concentrate on some aspects where we were involved during my research on vacuolar transporters, for some our laboratories contributed more, while others contributed less.
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- Enrico Martinoia
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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SHAHID MN, JAMAL A, AFTAB B, MOHAMED BB, WATTOO JI, KIANI MS, RASHID B, HUSNAIN T. Identification, characterization, and expression profiling of salt-stress tolerant proton gradient regulator 5 (PGR5) in Gossypium arboreum. Turk J Biol 2016. [DOI: 10.3906/biy-1504-30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Bose J, Rodrigo-Moreno A, Shabala S. ROS homeostasis in halophytes in the context of salinity stress tolerance. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2014; 65:1241-57. [PMID: 24368505 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 377] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Halophytes are defined as plants that are adapted to live in soils containing high concentrations of salt and benefiting from it, and thus represent an ideal model to understand complex physiological and genetic mechanisms of salinity stress tolerance. It is also known that oxidative stress signalling and reactive oxygen species (ROS) detoxification are both essential components of salinity stress tolerance mechanisms. This paper comprehensively reviews the differences in ROS homeostasis between halophytes and glycophytes in an attempt to answer the questions of whether stress-induced ROS production is similar between halophytes and glycophytes; is the superior salinity tolerance in halophytes attributed to higher antioxidant activity; and is there something special about the specific 'pool' of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants in halophytes. We argue that truly salt-tolerant species possessing efficient mechanisms for Na(+) exclusion from the cytosol may not require a high level of antioxidant activity, as they simply do not allow excessive ROS production in the first instance. We also suggest that H2O2 'signatures' may operate in plant signalling networks, in addition to well-known cytosolic calcium 'signatures'. According to the suggested concept, the intrinsically higher superoxide dismutase (SOD) levels in halophytes are required for rapid induction of the H2O2 'signature', and to trigger a cascade of adaptive responses (both genetic and physiological), while the role of other enzymatic antioxidants may be in decreasing the basal levels of H2O2, once the signalling has been processed. Finally, we emphasize the importance of non-enzymatic antioxidants as the only effective means to prevent detrimental effects of hydroxyl radicals on cellular structures.
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- Jayakumar Bose
- School of Agricultural Science and Tasmanian Institute for Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 54, Hobart, Tas 7001, Australia
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Hüsemann W, Callies R, Leibfritz D. External pH Modifies the Intracellular pH and the Mode of Photosynthetic CO2-Assimilation in Photoautotrophic Cell Suspension Cultures ofChenopodium rubrumL. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1992.tb00275.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Müller WEG, Qiang L, Schröder HC, Hönig N, Yuan D, Grebenjuk VA, Mussino F, Giovine M, Wang X. Carbonic anhydrase: a key regulatory and detoxifying enzyme for Karst plants. PLANTA 2014; 239:213-229. [PMID: 24385198 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-013-1981-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2013] [Accepted: 09/30/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Karstification is a rapid process during which calcidic stones/limestones undergo dissolution with the consequence of a desertification of karst regions. A slow-down of those dissolution processes of Ca-carbonate can be approached by a reforestation program using karst-resistant plants that can resist alkaline pH and higher bicarbonate (HCO₃⁻) concentrations in the soil. Carbonic anhydrases (CA) are enzymes that mediate a rapid and reversible interconversion of CO₂ and HCO₃⁻. In the present study, the steady-state expression of a CA gene, encoding for the plant carbonic anhydrase from the parsley Petroselinum crispum, is monitored. The studies were primarily been performed during germination of the seeds up to the 12/14-day-old embryos. The CA cDNA was cloned. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analysis revealed that the gene expression level of the P. crispum CA is strongly and significantly affected at more alkaline pH in the growth medium (pH 8.3). This abolishing effect is counteracted both by addition of HCO₃⁻ and by addition of polyphosphate (polyP) to the culture medium. In response to polyP, the increased pH in the vacuoles of the growing plants is normalized. The effect of polyP let us to propose that this polymer acts as a buffer system that facilitates the adjustment of the pH in the cytoplasm. In addition, it is proposed that polyP has the potential to act, especially in the karst, as a fertilizer that allows the karstic plants to cope with the adverse pH and HCO₃⁻ condition in the soil.
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- Werner E G Müller
- ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group, University Medical Center, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Duesbergweg 6, 55128, Mainz, Germany,
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Rienmüller F, Dreyer I, Schönknecht G, Schulz A, Schumacher K, Nagy R, Martinoia E, Marten I, Hedrich R. Luminal and cytosolic pH feedback on proton pump activity and ATP affinity of V-type ATPase from Arabidopsis. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:8986-93. [PMID: 22215665 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.310367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Proton pumping of the vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase into the lumen of the central plant organelle generates a proton gradient of often 1-2 pH units or more. Although structural aspects of the V-type ATPase have been studied in great detail, the question of whether and how the proton pump action is controlled by the proton concentration on both sides of the membrane is not understood. Applying the patch clamp technique to isolated vacuoles from Arabidopsis mesophyll cells in the whole-vacuole mode, we studied the response of the V-ATPase to protons, voltage, and ATP. Current-voltage relationships at different luminal pH values indicated decreasing coupling ratios with acidification. A detailed study of ATP-dependent H(+)-pump currents at a variety of different pH conditions showed a complex regulation of V-ATPase activity by both cytosolic and vacuolar pH. At cytosolic pH 7.5, vacuolar pH changes had relative little effects. Yet, at cytosolic pH 5.5, a 100-fold increase in vacuolar proton concentration resulted in a 70-fold increase of the affinity for ATP binding on the cytosolic side. Changes in pH on either side of the membrane seem to be transferred by the V-ATPase to the other side. A mathematical model was developed that indicates a feedback of proton concentration on peak H(+) current amplitude (v(max)) and ATP consumption (K(m)) of the V-ATPase. It proposes that for efficient V-ATPase function dissociation of transported protons from the pump protein might become higher with increasing pH. This feature results in an optimization of H(+) pumping by the V-ATPase according to existing H(+) concentrations.
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- Florian Rienmüller
- University of Würzburg, Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Würzburg, Germany
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Pittman JK. Multiple Transport Pathways for Mediating Intracellular pH Homeostasis: The Contribution of H(+)/ion Exchangers. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2012; 3:11. [PMID: 22645567 PMCID: PMC3355781 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2011] [Accepted: 01/11/2012] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Intracellular pH homeostasis is an essential process in all plant cells. The transport of H(+) into intracellular compartments is critical for providing pH regulation. The maintenance of correct luminal pH in the vacuole and in compartments of the secretory/endocytic pathway is important for a variety of cellular functions including protein modification, sorting, and trafficking. It is becoming increasingly evident that coordination between primary H(+) pumps, most notably the V-ATPase, and secondary ion/H(+) exchangers allows this endomembrane pH maintenance to occur. This article describes some of the recent insights from the studies of plant cation/H(+) exchangers and anion/H(+) exchangers that demonstrate the fundamental roles of these transporters in pH homeostasis within intracellular compartments.
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- Jon K. Pittman
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of ManchesterManchester, UK
- *Correspondence: Jon K. Pittman, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. e-mail:
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Steinacher A, Leyser O, Clayton RH. A computational model of auxin and pH dynamics in a single plant cell. J Theor Biol 2011; 296:84-94. [PMID: 22142622 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2011] [Revised: 11/17/2011] [Accepted: 11/18/2011] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Directed cell-to-cell movement of the plant growth hormone auxin is often referred to as polar auxin transport, and has gained much interest since its discovery at the beginning of the 20th century, both by biologists and theoreticians. Computational modelling of auxin transport at tissue and whole plant scales has given valuable insights into the feedback dynamics between auxin and its transport, which often leads to cell polarisation. However, one cellular feedback mechanism that has been overlooked so far in previous models is the interplay between auxin and pH during auxin transport, even though this is well known from biology. We propose a kinetic model of such a feedback mechanism, linking knowledge about auxin-induced acidification of cell wall compartments to the chemiosmotic hypothesis of auxin transport. Our results suggest that proton fluxes may play a significant role in auxin transport. Since active auxin transport relies on the proton motive force over the cellular membrane, allocation of auxin is linked to its effects on compartmental pH. Our auxin/pH feedback model predicts enhanced accumulation of auxin in cells and increases in both auxin influx and efflux when this feedback is in effect. These results were robust in all simulations and consistent with biological evidence, thus providing a framework for generating and testing hypotheses of auxin-related polarisation events at a cellular level.
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- Arno Steinacher
- College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK.
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Apse MP, Blumwald E. Na+ transport in plants. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:2247-54. [PMID: 17459382 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2007] [Revised: 04/10/2007] [Accepted: 04/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The ability of plants to grow in high NaCl concentrations is associated with the ability of the plants to transport, compartmentalize, extrude, and mobilize Na(+) ions. While the influx and efflux at the roots establish the steady state rate of entry of Na(+) into the plant, the compartmentation of Na(+) into the cell vacuoles and the radial transport of Na(+) to the stele and its loading into the xylem establish the homeostatic control of Na(+) in the cytosol of the root cells. Removal of Na(+) from the transpirational stream, its distribution within the plant and its progressive accumulation in the leaf vacuoles, will determine the ability to deal with the toxic effects of Na(+). The aim of this review is to highlight and discuss the recent progress in understanding of Na(+) transport in plants.
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- Maris P Apse
- Arcadia Biosciences, 202 Cousteau Place, Suite 200, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Lobit P, Genard M, Soing P, Habib R. Modelling malic acid accumulation in fruits: relationships with organic acids, potassium, and temperature. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2006; 57:1471-83. [PMID: 16581851 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erj128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Malic acid production, degradation, and storage during fruit development have been modelled. The model assumes that malic acid content is determined essentially by the conditions of its storage in the mesocarp cells, and provides a simplified representation of the mechanisms involved in the accumulation of malate in the vacuole and their regulation by thermodynamic constraints. Solving the corresponding system of equations made it possible to predict the malic acid content of the fruit as a function of organic acids, potassium concentration, and temperature. The model was applied to peach fruit, and parameters were estimated from the data of fruit development monitored over 2 years. The predictions were in good agreement with experimental data. Simulations were performed to analyse the behaviour of the model in response to variations in composition and temperature.
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Pardo JM, Cubero B, Leidi EO, Quintero FJ. Alkali cation exchangers: roles in cellular homeostasis and stress tolerance. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2006; 57:1181-99. [PMID: 16513813 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erj114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 250] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Uptake and translocation of cations play essential roles in plant nutrition, signal transduction, growth, and development. Among them, potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) have been the focus of numerous physiological studies because K+ is an essential macronutrient and the most abundant inorganic cation in plant cells, whereas Na+ toxicity is a principal component of the deleterious effects associated with salinity stress. Although the homeostasis of these two ions was long surmised to be fine tuned and under complex regulation, the myriad of candidate membrane transporters mediating their uptake, intracellular distribution, and long-distance transport is nevertheless perplexing. Recent advances have shown that, in addition to their function in vacuolar accumulation of Na+, proteins of the NHX family are endosomal transporters that also play critical roles in K+ homeostasis, luminal pH control, and vesicle trafficking. The plasma membrane SOS1 protein from Arabidopsis thaliana, a highly specific Na+/H+ exchanger that catalyses Na+ efflux and that regulates its root/shoot distribution, has also revealed surprising interactions with K+ uptake mechanisms by roots. Finally, the function of individual members of the large CHX family remains largely unknown but two CHX isoforms, AtCHX17 and AtCH23, have been shown to affect K+ homeostasis and the control of chloroplast pH, respectively. Recent advances on the understanding of the physiological processes that are governed by these three families of cation exchangers are reviewed and discussed.
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- José M Pardo
- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Reina Mercedes 10, Seville 41012, Spain.
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Martínez-Muñoz GA, Peña A. In situ study of K+ transport into the vacuole of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 2005; 22:689-704. [PMID: 16034802 DOI: 10.1002/yea.1238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Permeable spheroplasts were prepared from two strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by incubating with zymolyase without a permeabilizing agent. The loss of the plasma membrane barrier was confirmed by the nucleotide release, the activity of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase with external substrates and by the effects on respiration of mitochondrial substrates and ADP. Mitochondrial integrity was maintained, as shown by respiration with lactate, pyruvate, glucose and ethanol, and its acceleration by ADP showed a coupled respiration. Potassium uptake into the vacuole was measured with a selective electrode and found to be taken up effectively by spheroplasts only in the presence of Mg-ATP; it was reverted by CCCP and PCP and inhibited by bafilomycin A1, but not by sodium vanadate or sodium azide. Potassium ions did not alter DeltaPsi of the vacuole, followed with oxonol V, but caused vacuolar alkalinization, as followed with pyranine. The increase of vacuolar pH was non-selective and observed at 50-200 mM of several monovalent cations. Isolated vacuoles with pyranine inside showed similar changes of the internal pH in the presence of KCl. Results indicate that some strains do not require a permeabilizing agent to directly access the vacuole in spheroplasts prepared with zymolyase. The hypothesis about the existence of a K+/H+ antiporter in the vacuolar membrane of S. cerevisiae is discussed.
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- Gloria A Martínez-Muñoz
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado 70-600, 4510 México D.F., México.
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Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA, Zhu JK, Bohnert HJ. PLANTCELLULAR ANDMOLECULARRESPONSES TOHIGHSALINITY. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000; 51:463-499. [PMID: 15012199 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.51.1.463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1642] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Plant responses to salinity stress are reviewed with emphasis on molecular mechanisms of signal transduction and on the physiological consequences of altered gene expression that affect biochemical reactions downstream of stress sensing. We make extensive use of comparisons with model organisms, halophytic plants, and yeast, which provide a paradigm for many responses to salinity exhibited by stress-sensitive plants. Among biochemical responses, we emphasize osmolyte biosynthesis and function, water flux control, and membrane transport of ions for maintenance and re-establishment of homeostasis. The advances in understanding the effectiveness of stress responses, and distinctions between pathology and adaptive advantage, are increasingly based on transgenic plant and mutant analyses, in particular the analysis of Arabidopsis mutants defective in elements of stress signal transduction pathways. We summarize evidence for plant stress signaling systems, some of which have components analogous to those that regulate osmotic stress responses of yeast. There is evidence also of signaling cascades that are not known to exist in the unicellular eukaryote, some that presumably function in intercellular coordination or regulation of effector genes in a cell-/tissue-specific context required for tolerance of plants. A complex set of stress-responsive transcription factors is emerging. The imminent availability of genomic DNA sequences and global and cell-specific transcript expression data, combined with determinant identification based on gain- and loss-of-function molecular genetics, will provide the infrastructure for functional physiological dissection of salt tolerance determinants in an organismal context. Furthermore, protein interaction analysis and evaluation of allelism, additivity, and epistasis allow determination of ordered relationships between stress signaling components. Finally, genetic activation and suppression screens will lead inevitably to an understanding of the interrelationships of the multiple signaling systems that control stress-adaptive responses in plants.
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- Paul M. Hasegawa
- Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, 1165 Horticulture Building, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1165; e-mail: , Departments of 1 Plant Sciences and 2Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721; e-mail:
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Salinity limits plant growth and impairs agricultural productivity. There is a wide spectrum of plant responses to salinity that are defined by a range of adaptations at the cellular and the whole-plant levels, however, the mechanisms of sodium transport appear to be fundamentally similar. At the cellular level, sodium ions gain entry via several plasma membrane channels. As cytoplasmic sodium is toxic above threshold levels, it is extruded by plasma membrane Na(+)/H(+) antiports that are energized by the proton gradient generated by the plasma membrane ATPase. Cytoplasmic Na(+) may also be compartmentalized by vacuolar Na(+)/H(+) antiports. These transporters are energized by the proton gradient generated by the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase and H(+)-PPiase. Here, the mechanisms of sodium entry, extrusion, and compartmentation are reviewed, with a discussion of recent progress on the cloning and characterization, directly in planta and in yeast, of some of the proteins involved in sodium transport.
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- E Blumwald
- Department of Botany, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Müller ML, Jensen M, Taiz L. The vacuolar H+-ATPase of lemon fruits is regulated by variable H+/ATP coupling and slip. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:10706-16. [PMID: 10196141 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.16.10706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Lemon fruit tonoplasts, unlike those of seedling epicotyls, contain nitrate-insensitive H+-ATPase activity (Müller, M. L., Irkens-Kiesecker, U., Rubinstein, B., and Taiz, L. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 1916-1924). However, the degree of nitrate-insensitivity fluctuates during the course of the year with a seasonal frequency. Nitrate uncouples H+ pumping from ATP hydrolysis both in epicotyls and in nitrate-sensitive fruit V-ATPases. Neither bafilomycin nor oxidation cause uncoupling. The initial rate H+/ATP coupling ratios of epicotyl and the nitrate-sensitive fruit proton pumping activities are the same. However, the H+/ATP coupling ratio of the nitrate-insensitive fruit H+ pumping activity is lower than that of nitrate-sensitive and epicotyl V-ATPases. Several properties of the nitrate-insensitive H+-ATPase of the fruit indicate that it is a modified V-ATPase rather than a P-ATPase: 1) insensitivity to low concentrations of vanadate; 2) it is initially strongly uncoupled by nitrate, but regains coupling as catalysis proceeds; 3) both the nitrate-sensitive and nitrate-insensitive fruit H+-pumps have identical Km values for MgATP, and show similar pH-dependent slip and proton leakage rates. We conclude that the ability of the juice sac V-ATPase to build up steep pH gradients involves three factors: variable coupling, i.e. the ability to regain coupling under conditions that initially induce uncoupling; a low pH-dependent slip rate; the low proton permeability of the membrane.
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- M L Müller
- Biology Department, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Pugin A, Frachisse JM, Tavernier E, Bligny R, Gout E, Douce R, Guern J. Early Events Induced by the Elicitor Cryptogein in Tobacco Cells: Involvement of a Plasma Membrane NADPH Oxidase and Activation of Glycolysis and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway. THE PLANT CELL 1997. [PMID: 12237354 DOI: 10.2307/3870566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Application of the elicitor cryptogein to tobacco (cv Xanthi) is known to evoke external medium alkalinization, active oxygen species production, and phytoalexin synthesis. These are all dependent on an influx of calcium. We show here that cryptogein also induces calcium-dependent plasma membrane depolarization, chloride efflux, cytoplasm acidification, and NADPH oxidation without changes in NAD+ and ATP levels, indicating that the elicitor-activated redox system, responsible for active oxygen species production, uses NADPH in vivo. NADPH oxidation activates the functioning of the pentose phosphate pathway, leading to a decrease in glucose 6-phosphate and to the accumulation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, 3- and 2-phosphoglyceric acid, and phosphoenolpyruvate. By inhibiting the pentose phosphate pathway, we demonstrate that the activation of the plasma membrane NADPH oxidase is responsible for active oxygen species production, external alkalinization, and acidification of the cytoplasm. A model is proposed for the organization of the cryptogein responses measured to date.
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- A. Pugin
- Unite Associee, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique/Universite de Bourgogne, INRA BV 1540, 21034 Dijon Cedex, France
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Pugin A, Frachisse JM, Tavernier E, Bligny R, Gout E, Douce R, Guern J. Early Events Induced by the Elicitor Cryptogein in Tobacco Cells: Involvement of a Plasma Membrane NADPH Oxidase and Activation of Glycolysis and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway. THE PLANT CELL 1997; 9:2077-2091. [PMID: 12237354 PMCID: PMC157059 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.11.2077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Application of the elicitor cryptogein to tobacco (cv Xanthi) is known to evoke external medium alkalinization, active oxygen species production, and phytoalexin synthesis. These are all dependent on an influx of calcium. We show here that cryptogein also induces calcium-dependent plasma membrane depolarization, chloride efflux, cytoplasm acidification, and NADPH oxidation without changes in NAD+ and ATP levels, indicating that the elicitor-activated redox system, responsible for active oxygen species production, uses NADPH in vivo. NADPH oxidation activates the functioning of the pentose phosphate pathway, leading to a decrease in glucose 6-phosphate and to the accumulation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, 3- and 2-phosphoglyceric acid, and phosphoenolpyruvate. By inhibiting the pentose phosphate pathway, we demonstrate that the activation of the plasma membrane NADPH oxidase is responsible for active oxygen species production, external alkalinization, and acidification of the cytoplasm. A model is proposed for the organization of the cryptogein responses measured to date.
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- A. Pugin
- Unite Associee, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique/Universite de Bourgogne, INRA BV 1540, 21034 Dijon Cedex, France
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Müller ML, Irkens-Kiesecker U, Kramer D, Taiz L. Purification and reconstitution of the vacuolar H+-ATPases from lemon fruits and epicotyls. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:12762-70. [PMID: 9139735 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.19.12762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The vacuolar H+-ATPases (V-ATPases) of lemon fruits and epicotyls were detergent-solubilized, purified by column chromatography, and reconstituted into artificial proteoliposomes. During purification, a vanadate- and nitrate-sensitive ATPase activity, consisting of partially disassembled V-ATPase complexes, was resolved from the V-ATPase peak. ATPase and H+-transport activities of the purified, reconstituted V-ATPases of both fruit and epicotyl exhibited similar inhibitor profiles, except that the fruit V-ATPase retained partial vanadate sensitivity. Since the V-ATPase activity of native fruit tonoplast vesicles is insensitive to inhibitors (Müller, M. L., Irkens-Kiesecker, U., Rubinstein, B., and Taiz, L. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 1916-1924), membrane lipids or other factors may protect the fruit V-ATPase from inactivation in vivo. A kinetic analysis of H+-pumping and H+-leakage indicated that the reconstituted epicotyl V-ATPase exhibited twice as much intrinsic uncoupling or slip as the reconstituted fruit V-ATPase. Comparison of their subunit compositions by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that the reconstituted fruit V-ATPase is enriched in two polypeptides of 33/34 and 16 kDa. Moreover, the stalks of negatively stained juice sac V-ATPases appeared thicker than those of epicotyl V-ATPases in electron micrographs.
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- M L Müller
- Biology Department, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Barkla BJ, Pantoja O. PHYSIOLOGY OF ION TRANSPORT ACROSS THE TONOPLAST OF HIGHER PLANTS. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996; 47:159-184. [PMID: 15012286 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.47.1.159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The vacuole of plant cells plays an important role in the homeostasis of the cell. It is involved in the regulation of cytoplasmic pH, sequestration of toxic ions and xenobiotics, regulation of cell turgor, storage of amino acids, sugars and CO2 in the form of malate, and possibly as a source for elevating cytoplasmic calcium. All these activities are driven by two primary active transport mechanisms present in the vacuolar membrane (tonoplast). These two mechanisms employ high-energy metabolites to pump protons into the vacuole, establishing a proton electrochemical potential that mediates the transport of a diverse range of solutes. Within the past few years, great advances at the molecular and functional levels have been made on the characterization and identification of these mechanisms. The aim of this review is to summarize these studies in the context of the physiology of the plant cell.
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- Bronwyn J. Barkla
- Departamento de Biologia Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnologia, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 62271
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Vercesi AE, Docampo R. Sodium-proton exchange stimulates Ca2+ release from acidocalcisomes of Trypanosoma brucei. Biochem J 1996; 315 ( Pt 1):265-70. [PMID: 8670117 PMCID: PMC1217181 DOI: 10.1042/bj3150265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Acidocalcisomes are acidic vacuoles present in trypanosomatids that contain a considerable fraction of intracellular Ca2+ [Vercesi, Moreno and Docampo (1994) Biochem. J. 304, 227-233; Scott, Moreno and Docampo (1995) Biochem. J. 310, 789-794; Docampo, Scott, Vercesi and Moreno (1995) Biochem. J. 310, 1005-1012]. The data presented here indicate that Na+ stimulates Ca2+ release from the acidocalcisomes of digitonin-permeabilized Trypanosoma brucei procyclic trypomastigotes in a dose-dependent fashion, this effect being enhanced by increasing pH of the medium from 7.0 to 7.8. The hypothesis that this Na+ effect was mediated by alkalinization of the acidocalcisomes via a Na+/H+ antiporter was supported by experiments showing that Na+ promotes release of Acridine Orange previously accumulated in these vacuoles. This putative antiporter did not transport Li+ and was not sensitive to the amiloride analogue 5-(N-ethyl-N-isopropyl)amiloride. Addition of the Na+/H+ ionophore monensin to intact cells loaded with fura 2, in the nominal absence of extracellular Ca2+ to preclude Ca2+ entry, was followed by an increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i), which was more accentuated in the presence of extracellular Na+. An increase in intracellular pH (pHi) of BCECF-loaded cells was detected after addition of monensin in the presence of extracellular Na+, whereas a dramatic decrease in pHi was detected in its absence, thus indicating the presence of a significant amount of releasable protons in the acidic compartments. These results are consistent with the presence of a Na+/H+ antiporter in the acidocalcisomes that could be involved in the regulation of pH1 and [Ca2+]1 in these parasites.
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- A E Vercesi
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 71801, U.S.A
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Müller M, Irkens-Kiesecker U, Rubinstein B, Taiz L. On the mechanism of hyperacidification in lemon. Comparison of the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase activities of fruits and epicotyls. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:1916-24. [PMID: 8567639 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.4.1916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Lemon fruit vacuoles acidify their lumens to pH 2.5, 3 pH units lower than typical plant vacuoles. To study the mechanism of hyperacidification, the kinetics of ATP-driven proton pumping by tonoplast vesicles from lemon fruits and epicotyls were compared. Fruit vacuolar membranes. H+ pumping by epicotyl membranes was chloride-dependent, stimulated by sulfate, and inhibited by the classical vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase) inhibitors nitrate, bafilomycin, N-ethylmaleimide, and N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. In addition, the epicotyl H+ pumping activity was inactivated by oxidation was reversed by dithiothreitol. Cold inactivation of the epicotyl V-ATPase by nitrate ( > or = 100 mM) was correlated with the release of V1 complexes from the membrane. In contrast, H+ pumping by the fruit tonoplast-enriched membranes was chloride-independent, largely insensitive to the V-ATPase inhibitors, and resistant to oxidation. Unlike the epicotyl inhibitors, and resistant to oxidation. Unlike the epicotyl H(+)-ATPase, the fruit H(+)-ATPase activity was partially inhibited by 200 microM vanadate. Cold inactivation treatment failed to inhibit H+ pumping activity of the fruit membranes, even though immunoblasts showed that V1 complexes were released from the membrane. However, cold inactivation doubled the percent inhibition by 200 microM vanadate from 30% to 60%. These results suggest the presence of two H(+)-ATPases in the fruit preparation: a V-ATPase and an unidentified vanadate-sensitive H(+)-ATPase. Attempts to separate the two activities in their native membranes on linear sucrose density density gradients were unsuccessful. However, following detergent-solubilization and centrifugation on a glycerol density gradient, the two ATPase activities were resolved: a nitrate-sensitive V-type ATPase that is also partially inhibited by 200 microM vanadate, and an apparently novel vanadate-sensitive ATPase that is also partially inhibited by nitrate.
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- M Müller
- Biology Department, Sinsheimer Laboratories, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
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Barkla BJ, Zingarelli L, Blumwald E, Smith JAC. Tonoplast Na+/H+ Antiport Activity and Its Energization by the Vacuolar H+-ATPase in the Halophytic Plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1995; 109:549-556. [PMID: 12228611 PMCID: PMC157619 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.2.549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Tonoplast vesicles were isolated from leaf mesophyll tissue of the inducible Crassulacean acid metabolism plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum to investigate the mechanism of vacuolar Na+ accumulation in this halophilic species. In 8-week-old plants exposed to 200 mM NaCl for 2 weeks, tonoplast H+-ATPase activity was approximately doubled compared with control plants of the same age, as determined by rates of both ATP hydrolysis and ATP-dependent H+ transport. Evidence was also obtained for the presence of an electroneutral Na+/H+ antiporter at the tonoplast that is constitutively expressed, since extravesicular Na+ was able to dissipate a pre-existing transmembrane pH gradient. Initial rates of H+ efflux showed saturation kinetics with respect to extravesicular Na+ concentration and were 2.1-fold higher from vesicles of salt-treated plants compared with the controls. Na+-dependent H+ efflux also showed a high selectivity for Na+ over K+, was insensitive to the transmembrane electrical potential difference, and was more than 50% inhibited by 200 [mu]M N-amidino-3,5-diamino-6-chloropyrazinecarboxamide hydrochloride. The close correlation between increased Na+/H+ antiport and H+-ATPase activities in response to salt treatment suggests that accumulation of the very high concentrations of vacuolar Na+ found in M. crystallinum is energized by the H+ electrochemical gradient across the tonoplast.
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- B. J. Barkla
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom (B.J.B., L.Z., J.A.C.S.)
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Davies JM, Hunt I, Sanders D. Vacuolar H(+)-pumping ATPase variable transport coupling ratio controlled by pH. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:8547-51. [PMID: 8078920 PMCID: PMC44643 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.18.8547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The eukaryote endomembrane system contains a class of H(+)-pumping ATPase (H(+)-ATPases) of the vacuolar type (V-ATPases) that are responsible for the acidification of organelles. Their action is critical to numerous physiological processes, but the regulatory mechanisms that may control activity are not yet fully understood. The ratio of H+ transported per ATP hydrolyzed (n) has been determined thermodynamically for the red beet V-ATPase by using patch clamp. The value of n was found to range from 1.75 to 3.28 and was strictly dependent on cytoplasmic and lumenal pH. This suggests a mechanism by which V-ATPases are regulated by and might therefore control cytoplasmic and lumenal pH. Furthermore, the substantial capacity of plant vacuoles for H+ accumulation to pH 3 or lower can only be explained by the finding that n can adopt a value of < 2.
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- J M Davies
- Biology Department, University of York, United Kingdom
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Padan E, Schuldiner S. Molecular physiology of Na+/H+ antiporters, key transporters in circulation of Na+ and H+ in cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1185:129-51. [PMID: 8167133 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(94)90204-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- E Padan
- Department of Microbial and Molecular Ecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Spickett CM, Smirnoff N, Ratcliffe RG. An in Vivo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation of Ion Transport in Maize (Zea mays) and Spartina anglica Roots during Exposure to High Salt Concentrations. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1993; 102:629-638. [PMID: 12231853 PMCID: PMC158822 DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.2.629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The response of maize (Zea mays L.) and Spartina anglica root tips to exposure to sodium chloride concentrations in the range 0 to 500 mM was investigated using 23Na and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). Changes in the chemical shift of the pH-dependent 31P-NMR signals from the cytoplasmic and vacuolar orthophosphate pools were correlated with the uptake of sodium, and after allowing for a number of complicating factors we concluded that these chemical shift changes indicated the occurrence of a small cytoplasmic alkalinization (0.1-0.2 pH units) and a larger vacuolar alkalinization (0.6 pH units) in maize root tips exposed to salt concentrations greater than 200 mM. The data were interpreted in terms of the ion transport processes that may be important during salt stress, and we concluded that the vacuolar alkalinization provided evidence for the operation of a tonoplast Na+/H+-antiport with an activity that exceeded the activity of the tonoplast H+ pumps. The intracellular pH values stabilized during prolonged treatment with high salt concentrations, and this observation was linked to the recent demonstration (Y. Nakamura, K. Kasamo, N. Shimosato, M. Sakata, E. Ohta [1992] Plant Cell Physiol 33: 139-149) of the salt-induced activation of the tonoplast H+- ATPase. Sodium vanadate, an inhibitor of the plasmalemma H+- ATPase, stimulated the net uptake of sodium by maize root tips, and this was interpreted in terms of a reduction in active sodium efflux from the tissue. S. anglica root tips accumulated sodium more slowly than did maize, with no change in cytoplasmic pH and a relatively small change (0.3 pH units) in vacuolar pH, and it appears that salt tolerance in Spartina is based in part on its ability to prevent the net influx of sodium chloride.
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- C. M. Spickett
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom (C.M.S., R.G.R.)
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Oliveira A, Marques J, Santos H. Nodulation in clover roots: Correlation with vacuolar pH. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1992. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1992.tb05403.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Sze H, Ward JM, Lai S. Vacuolar H(+)-translocating ATPases from plants: structure, function, and isoforms. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1992; 24:371-81. [PMID: 1400282 DOI: 10.1007/bf00762530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The vacuolar H(+)-translocating ATPase (V-type ATPase) plays a central role in the growth and development of plant cells. In a mature cell, the vacuole is the largest intracellular compartment, occupying about 90% of the cell volume. The proton electrochemical gradient (acid inside) formed by the vacuolar ATPase provides the primary driving force for the transport of numerous ions and metabolites against their electrochemical gradients. The uptake and release of solutes across the vacuolar membrane is fundamental to many cellular processes, such as osmoregulation, signal transduction, and metabolic regulation. Vacuolar ATPases may also reside on endomembranes, such as Golgi and coated vesicles, and thus may participate in intracellular membrane traffic, sorting, and secretion. Plant vacuolar ATPases are large complexes (400-650 kDa) composed of 7-10 different subunits. The peripheral sector of 5-6 subunits includes the nucleotide-binding catalytic and regulatory subunits of approximately 70 and approximately 60 kDa, respectively. Six copies of the 16-kDa proteolipid together with 1-3 other subunits make up the integral sector that forms the H+ conducting pathway. Isoforms of plant vacuolar ATPases are suggested by the variations in subunit composition observed among and within plant species, and by the presence of a small multigene family encoding the 16-kDa and 70-kDa subunits. Multiple genes may encode isoforms with specific properties required to serve the diverse functions of vacuoles and endomembrane compartments.
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- H Sze
- Department of Botany, University of Maryland, College Park 20742
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Barkla BJ, Blumwald E. Identification of a 170-kDa protein associated with the vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport of Beta vulgaris. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:11177-81. [PMID: 1662387 PMCID: PMC53097 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.24.11177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The effect of the addition of amiloride to the growth medium was tested on the Na+/H+ antiport activity of tonoplast vesicles isolated from sugar beet (beta vulgaris L.) cell suspensions. Cells grown in the presence of NaCl and amiloride displayed an increased antiport activity. Analysis of the kinetic data showed that while the affinity of the antiport for Na+ ions did not change, the maximal velocity of the Na+/H+ exchange increased markedly. These results suggest the addition of more antiport molecules to the tonoplast and/or an increase in the turnover rate of the Na+/H+ exchange. The increase in activity of the antiport by the presence of amiloride was correlated with the enhanced synthesis of a tonoplast 170-kDa polypeptide. The increased synthesis of this polypeptide was detected not only upon exposure of the cells to amiloride but also when the cells were exposed to high NaCl concentrations. Polyclonal antibodies against the 170-kDa polypeptide almost completely inhibited the antiport activity. These results suggest the association of the 170-kDa polypeptide with the vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport.
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- B J Barkla
- Department of Botany, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
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Bianco-Colomas J, Barthe P, Orlandini M, Le Page-Degivry MT. Carrier-Mediated Uptake of Abscisic Acid by Suspension-Cultured Amaranthus tricolor Cells. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1991; 95:990-6. [PMID: 16668133 PMCID: PMC1077642 DOI: 10.1104/pp.95.4.990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Abscisic acid (ABA) uptake by Amaranthus tricolor cell suspensions was found to include both a nonsaturable component and a saturable part with K(m) of 3.74 +/- 0.43 micromolar and an apparent V(max) of 1.5 +/- 0.12 nanomoles per gram per minute. These kinetic parameters as well as the uptake by intact cells at 0 degrees C or by frozen and thawed cells, are consistent with operation of a saturable carrier. This carrier-mediated ABA uptake was partially energized by DeltapH: it increased as the external pH was lowered to pH 4.0; it decreased after the lowering of the DeltapH by the proton ionophore carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone or after the altering of metabolically maintained pH gradient by metabolic inhibitors (KCN, oligomycin). The carrier is specific for ABA among the plant growth regulators tested, is unaffected by (RS)-trans-ABA and was inhibited by (S)-ABA, (R)-ABA, and also by the ABA analog LAB 173711.
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- J Bianco-Colomas
- Laboratoire de Physiologie végétale, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Parc Valrose, 06034 Nice, Cedex, France
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Dupont FM, Bush DS, Windle JJ, Jones RL. Calcium and proton transport in membrane vesicles from barley roots. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1990; 94:179-88. [PMID: 16667684 PMCID: PMC1077207 DOI: 10.1104/pp.94.1.179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Ca(2+) uptake by membrane fractions from barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv CM72) roots was characterized. Uptake of (45)Ca(2+) was measured in membrane vesicles obtained from continuous and discontinuous sucrose gradients. A single, large peak of Ca(2+) uptake coincided with the peak of proton transport by the tonoplast H(+)-ATPase. Depending on the concentration of Ca(2+) in the assay, Ca(2+) uptake was inhibited 50 to 75% by those combinations of ionophores and solutes that eliminated the pH gradient and membrane potential. However, 25 to 50% of the Ca(2+) uptake in the tonoplast-enriched fraction was not sensitive to ionophores but was inhibited by vanadate. The results suggest that (45)Ca uptake was driven by the low affinity, high capacity tonoplast Ca(2+)/nH(+) antiporter and also by a high affinity, lower capacity Ca(2+)-ATPase. The Ca(2+)-ATPase may be associated with tonoplast, Golgi or contaminating vesicles of unknown origin. No Ca(2+) transport was specifically associated with the distinct peak of endoplasmic reticulum that was identified by NADH cytochrome c reductase, choline phosphotransferase, and dolichol-P-man-nosyl synthase activities. A small shoulder of Ca(2+) uptake in the plasma membrane region of the gradient was inhibited by vanadate and erythrosin B and may represent the activity of a separate plasma membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase. Vesicle volumes were estimated using electron spin resonance techniques, and intravesicular Ca(2+) concentrations were estimated to be as high as 5 millimolar. ATP-driven uptake of Ca(2+) created 800- to 2000-fold concentration gradients within minutes. Problems in interpreting the effects of Ca(2+) on ATP-generated pH gradients are discussed and the suggestion is made that Ca(2+) dissipates pH gradients by a different mechanism than is responsible for Ca(2+) uptake into tonoplast vesicles.
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- F M Dupont
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710
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Johannes E, Felle H. Proton Gradient Across the Tonoplast of Riccia fluitans as a Result of the Joint Action of Two Electroenzymes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1990; 93:412-7. [PMID: 16667481 PMCID: PMC1062527 DOI: 10.1104/pp.93.2.412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Using pH-sensitive microelectrodes (in vitro) and acridine orange photometry (in vivo), the actions of the two tonoplast phosphatases, the tp-ATPase and the tp-PPase, were investigated with respect to how effectively they could generate a transtonoplast pH-gradient. Under standard conditions the vacuoles of the aquatic liverwort Riccia fluitans have an in vivo pH of 4.7 to 5.0. In isolated vacuoles a maximal vacuolar pH (pH(v)) of 4.74 +/- 0.1 is generated in the presence of 0.1 millimolar PP(i), but only 4.93 +/- 0.13 in the presence of 2.5 millimolar ATP. Both substrates added together approximate the value for PP(i). Cl(-)-stimulates the H(+)-transport driven by the tp-ATPase, but has no effect on the tp-PPase. The transport activity of the tp-ATPase approximates saturation kinetics (K((1/2)) approximately 0.5 millimolar), whereas transport by the tp-PPase yields an optimum around 0.1 millimolar PP(i). The transtonoplast pH-gradient is dissipated slowly by weak bases, from which a vacuolar buffer capacity of roughly 300 to 400 millimolar/pH(v) unit has been estimated. From the free energy (-11.42 kilojoules per mole) for the hydrolysis of PP(i) under the given experimental conditions, we conclude that the PPase-stoichiometry (transported H(+) per hydrolyzed substrate molecule) must be 1, and that in vivo this enzyme works as a H(+)-pump rather than as a pyrophosphate synthetase.
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- E Johannes
- Botanisches Institut I, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Senckenbergstrasse 17-21, D-6300 Giessen, Federal Republic of Germany
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Schumaker KS, Sze H. Solubilization and reconstitution of the oat root vacuolar h/ca exchanger. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1990; 92:340-5. [PMID: 16667279 PMCID: PMC1062295 DOI: 10.1104/pp.92.2.340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Calcium is sequestered into vacuoles of oat (Avena sativa L.) root cells via a H(+)/Ca(2+) antiporter, and vesicles derived from the vacuolar membrane (tonoplast) catalyze an uptake of calcium which is dependent on protons (pH gradient [DeltapH] dependent). The first step toward purification and identification of the H(+)/Ca(2+) antiporter is to solubilize and reconstitute the transport activity in liposomes. The vacuolar H(+)/Ca(2+) antiporter was solubilized with octylglucoside in the presence of soybean phospholipids and glycerol. After centrifugation, the soluble proteins were reconstituted into liposomes by detergent dilution. A DeltapH (acid inside) was generated in the proteoliposomes with an NH(4)Cl gradient (NH(4) (+) (in) >> NH(4) (+) (out)) as determined by methylamine uptake. Fundamental properties of DeltapH dependent calcium uptake such as the K(m) for calcium ( approximately 15 micromolar) and the sensitivity to inhibitors such as N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, ruthenium red, and lanthanum, were similar to those found in membrane vesicles, indicating that the H(+)/Ca(2+) antiporter has been reconstituted in active form.
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- K S Schumaker
- Department of Botany, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
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Fan TW, Higashi RM, Norlyn J, Epstein E. In vivo 23Na and 31P NMR measurement of a tonoplast Na+/H+ exchange process and its characteristics in two barley cultivars. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:9856-60. [PMID: 2557632 PMCID: PMC298601 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.24.9856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A Na+ uptake-associated vacuolar alkalinization was observed in roots of two barley cultivars (Arivat and the more salt-tolerant California Mariout) by using 23Na and 31P in vivo NMR spectroscopy. A NaCl uptake-associated broadening was also noted for both vacuolar Pi and intracellular Na NMR peaks, consistent with Na+ uptake into the same compartment as the vacuolar Pi. A close coupling of Na+ with H+ transport (presumably the Na+/H+ antiport) in vivo was evidenced by qualitative and quantitative correlations between Na+ accumulation and vacuolar alkalinization for both cultivars. Prolongation of the low NaCl pretreatment (30 mM) increased the activity of the putative antiport in Arivat but reduced it in California Mariout. This putative antiport also showed a dependence on NaCl concentration for California Mariout but not for Arivat. No cytoplasmic acidification accompanied the antiporter activity for either cultivar. The response of adenosine phosphates indicated that ATP utilization exceeded the capacity for ATP synthesis in Arivat, but the two processes seemed balanced in California Mariout. These comparisons provide clues to the role of the tonoplast Na+/H+ antiport and compensatory cytoplasmic adjustments including pH, osmolytes, and energy phosphates in governing the different salt tolerance of the two cultivars.
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- T W Fan
- Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis 95616
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White PJ, Smith JA. Proton and anion transport at the tonoplast in crassulacean-acid-metabolism plants: specificity of the malate-influx system in Kalanchoë daigremontiana. PLANTA 1989; 179:265-274. [PMID: 24201527 DOI: 10.1007/bf00393698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/1989] [Accepted: 05/25/1989] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Tonoplast vesicles were prepared from leaf mesophyll homogenates of the crassulacean-acid-metabolism plant Kalanchoë daigremontiana Hamet et Perrier de la Bâthie to study the effects of anions on ATP- and inorganic-pyrophosphate (PPi)-dependent H(+) transport. In the presence of gramicidin, substrate hydrolysis by the tonoplast ATPase was characteristically stimulated by chloride and inhibited by nitrate, but was unaffected by malate and a wide range of other organic-acid anions; the PPiase was anion-insensitive. Malate was more effective than chloride both in stimulating ATP- and PPi-dependent vesicle acidification (measured as quinacrine-fluorescence quenching) and in dissipating a pre-existing inside-positive membrane potential (measured as oxonol-V-fluorescence quenching), indicating that malate was more readily transported across the tonoplast. Certain other four-carbon dicarboxylates also supported high rates of vesicle acidification, their order of effectiveness being fumarate ≫ malate ∼-succinate > oxalacetate ∼- tartrate; the five-carbon dicarboxylates 2-oxoglutarate and glutarate were also transported, although at lower rates. Experiments with non-naturally occurring anions indicated that the malate transporter was not stereospecific, but that it required the trans-carboxyl configuration for transport. Shorter-chain or longer-chain dicarboxylates were not transported, and neither were monocarboxylates, the amino-acid anions aspartate and glutamate, nor the tricarboxylate isocitrate. The non-permeant anions maleate and tartronate appeared to be competitive inhibitors of malate transport but did not affect chloride transport, indicating that malate and chloride influx at the tonoplast might be mediated by separate transporters.
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Affiliation(s)
- P J White
- Department of Botany, University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, EH9 3JH, Edinburgh, UK
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