A SOYBEAN SEED UREASE-NULL PRODUCES UREASE IN CELL-CULTURE
A SOYBEAN SEED UREASE-NULL PRODUCES UREASE IN CELL-CULTURE
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DOI:
10.1104/pp.69.5.1233
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
BLEDSOE, PJ
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作者:
POLACCO, JC;THOMAS, AL;BLEDSOE, PJ
''Itachi'', a soybean (G. max [L.] Merr.) with 0.2% normal seed urease activity, was recovered from a screen of 6000 entries in the USA Department of Agriculture soybean germplasm collection. No urease antigen in ''Itachi'' seed extracts was detected by double diffusion or by rocket immunoelectrophoresis. Native gels stained for protein or ureolytic activity revealed no detectable urease holoenzyme. An anti-urease antibody affinity column was used to remove all detectable urease activity and antigen from wild type (''Prize'') seed extracts. Affinity column effluent and nonchromatographed Itachi extracts lack a species which comigrates with purified urease subunits in sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels. Inability to detect urease antigen or urease protein suggests that during development of ''Itachi'' seeds there is no synthesis of urease protein or that its synthesis is 0.2% of wild type (''Prize''). No urease activity or only traces of urease activity were detected in cotyledons of developing or germinating ''Itachi'' seeds. Callus cultures induced from cotyledon, shoot tip, root or root tip tissues of ''Itachi'' seedlings exhibited ureolytic activity equivalent to that of ''Prize'' cultures. Shoot tip cultures of ''Prize'' and ''Itachi'' grew with urea as sole N source. Most or all of the ureolytic activity in crude extracts of ''Prize'' and ''Itachi'' suspension culture cells is seed-like urease in thermal stability, recognition by antibodies to the seed enzyme, hydroxyurea sensitivity and Ni requirement for synthesis. Partially purified cell culture urease is identical to seed urease by immunological and electrophoretic criteria. Evidently, urease is under different developmental controls in the seed and in cell culture. In ''Prize'' and ''Itachi'' cultures, utilization of the ureide allantoin, unlike that of urea, is not dependent on Ni. Ureide catabolism may not require urease.