Characterization of the vacuolar ATPase activity of the crassulacean‐acid‐metabolism plant Kalanchoë daigremontiana Receptor modulating
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 141 (2), 415-420
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1984.tb08207.x
Abstract
Plants performing crassulacean acid metabolism show a large nocturnal accumultaion of malic acid in the vacuole of the photosynthetic cells. It has been postulated that an H+-translocating ATPase energizes the transport of malic acid across the tonoplast into the vacuole. The ATPase activity associated with vacuoles of the crassulacean-acid metabolism plant K. daigremontiana is characterized and compared with other phosphohydrolases. Vacuoles were isolated by polybase-induced lysis of mesophyll-cell protoplasts. The vacuoles had a high activity of unspecific acid phosphatase (pH optimum 5.3). The acid phosphatase was strongly inhibited by ammonium molybdate (with 50% inhibition at about 0.5 mmol m-3), but was not completely inhibited even at much higher ammonium-molybdate concentrations. The vacuolar ATPase activity, assayed in the presence of 100 mmol m-3 ammonium molybdate, had a pH optimum of 8.0. ATP was the preferred substrate, but GTP, ITP and ADP were hydrolyzed at appreciable rates. The mean ATPase activity at pH 8.0 was 14.5 nmol h-1 (103 vacuoles)-1, an average 13% of which was attributable to residual acid-phosphatase activity. Inorganic pyrophosphatase activity could not be demonstrated unambiguously. The vacuolar ATPase activity was Mg2+-dependent, had an apparent Km for MgATP2- of 0.31 mol m-3 and was 32% stimulated by 50 mol m-3 KCl. Of the inhibitors tested, oligomycin slightly inhibited the vacuolar ATPase activity and diethylstilbestrol and NO3- were both markedly inhibitory. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and tributyltin were also strongly inhibitory. Tributyltin caused a 50% inhibition at about 0.3 mmol m-3. This is taken as evidence that the vacuolar ATPase might function as an H+-translocating ATPase. It is shown that the measured activity of the vacuolar ATPase would be of the right order to account for the observed rates of nocturnal malic acid accumulation in K. daigremontiana.This publication has 53 references indexed in Scilit:
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