Transport and Subcellular Localization of Polyamines in Carrot Protoplasts and Vacuoles
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 87 (2), 514-518
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.87.2.514
Abstract
Putrescine and spermidine uptake in carrot (Daucus carota L., cv “Tip top”) protoplasts and isolated vacuoles was studied. Protoplasts and vacuoles accumulated polyamines very quickly, with maximum absorption within 1 to 2 minutes. The insertion of a washing layer containing 100 millimolar unlabeled putrescine or spermidine did not change this pattern, but strongly reduced the uptake of putrescine and spermidine in protoplasts and in vacuoles. The dependence of spermidine uptake on the external concentration was linear up to the highest concentrations tested in protoplasts, while that in vacuoles showed saturation kinetics below 1 millimolar (Km = 61.8 micromolar) and a linear component from 1 to 50 millimolar. Spermidine uptake in protoplasts increased linearly between pH 5.5 and 7.0, while there was a distinct optimum at pH 7.0 for vacuoles. Preincubation of protoplasts with 1 millimolar Ca2+ affected only surface binding but not transport into the cells. Nonpermeant polycations such as La3+ and polylysine inhibited spermidine uptake into protoplasts. Compartmentation studies showed that putrescine and spermidine were partly vacuolar in location and that exogenously applied spermidine could be recovered inside the cells. The characteristics of the protoplast and vacuolar uptake system induce us to put forward the hypothesis of a passive influx of polyamines through the plasmalemma and of the presence of a carrier-mediated transport system localized in the tonoplast.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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