Rapid modulation of nitrate reductase in pea roots
Tóm tắt
The regulatory properties of nitrate reductase (NR; EC 1.6.6.1) in root extracts from hydroponically grown pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Kleine Rheinländerin) plants were examined and compared with known properties of NR from spinach and pea leaves. Nitrate-reductase activity (NRA) extracted from pea roots decreased slowly when plants were kept in the dark, or when illuminated plants were detopped, with a half-time of about 4 h (= slow modulation in vivo). In contrast, the half-time for the dark-inactivation of NR from pea leaves was only 10 min. However, when root tip segments were transferred from aerobic to anaerobic conditions or vice versa, changes in NRA were as rapid as in leaves (= rapid modulation in vivo). Nitrate-reductase activity was low when extracted from roots kept in solutions flushed with air or pure oxygen, and high in nitrogen. Okadaic acid, a specific inhibitor of type-1 and type-2A protein phosphatases, totally prevented the in vivo activation by anaerobiosis of NR, indicating that rapid activation of root NR involved protein dephosphorylation. Under aerobic conditions, the low NRA in roots was also rapidly increased by incubating the roots with either uncouplers or mannose. Under these conditions, and also under anaerobiosis, ATP levels in roots were much lower than in aerated control roots. Thus, whenever ATP levels in roots were artificially decreased, NRA increased rapidly. The highly active NR extracted from anaerobic roots could be partially inactivated in vitro by preincubation of desalted root extracts with MgATP (2 mM), with a half-time of about 20 min. It was reactivated by subsequently incubating the extracts with excess AMP (2 mM). Thus, pea root NR shares many of the previously described properties of NR from spinach leaves, suggesting that the root enzyme, like the leaf enzyme, can be rapidly modulated, probably by reversible protein phosphorylation/ dephosphorylation.
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