EVIDENCE FOR RNA-OLIGONUCLEOTIDES IN PLANT VACUOLES ISOLATED FROM CULTURED TOMATO CELLS
EVIDENCE FOR RNA-OLIGONUCLEOTIDES IN PLANT VACUOLES ISOLATED FROM CULTURED TOMATO CELLS
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DOI:
10.1104/pp.94.3.1163
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发表时间:
1990-11-01
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影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
GLUND, K
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作者:
ABEL, S;BLUME, B;GLUND, K
We have shown that highly purified vacuoles of suspension-cultured tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) cells contain RNA-oligonucleotides, using two different approaches to label and detect RNA: (a)in vivolabeling of cellular RNA with [5-3H]uridine, followed by preparation of vacuoles from protoplasts and by quantification of radioactively labeled material; and (b)in vitrolabeling and analysis on sequencing gels of nucleic acids prepared from tomato vacuoles and their identification as RNA. The intravacuolar location of the RNA found in vacuolar preparations was concluded from analyzing for RNA intact organelles after repeated flotation steps as well as ribonuclease A treatment. About 3% of the RNA in protoplasts was localized within vacuoles, exceeding by severalfold the contribution made by contamination with unlysed protoplasts and subcellular organelles. Investigation of the size distribution of vacuolar RNA revealed an oligonucleotide pattern strikingly different from that which would arise from contaminating protoplasts; vacuolar RNA fragments are considerably shorter than 80 nucleotides. Characterization of these oligoribonucleotides (3′-phosphorylated termini; relatively rich in pyrimidines) as possible products of tomato vacuolar ribonuclease I action, and, in addition, enzymatic hydrolysis of vacuolar RNA by inherent enzyme activities in lysed vacuole preparations support the hypothesis that plant vacuoles are involved in cellular nucleolytic processes.