烟草愈伤组织继代培养和分化期间蛋白质代谢的比较研究

柳叶烟草(Nicotiana tabacum L.)愈伤组织在分化和芽原基形成期间,与继代增殖培养物比较,蛋白质含量与蛋白水解酶活性均缓慢上升;组分Ⅱ(水溶性蛋白与酶蛋白)蛋白质和核糖体组蛋白的合成速率都明显高于继代培养物;分化组织中总核糖体水平,特别是执行蛋白质合成功能的多聚核糖体的构建也都高于继代培养物。显然,分化培养愈伤组织较继代培养物有更高的蛋白质合成作用;而且组织分化和芽原基形成所需合成的新蛋白组分是与继代增殖生长的不同。继代培养后期,蛋白水解酶活性迅速升高,多聚核糖体相对量与蛋白质合成速率均明显下降,蛋白质含量急剧降低,表现出继代培养物开始衰老的代谢特征。此时期的分化培养组织,随着芽原基的继续生长,虽然蛋白质合成速率、多聚核糖体水平与蛋白质含量较前期有所降低,但都明显高于同时期的继代培养愈伤组织。     

烟草愈伤组织继代培养期间呼吸途径与活性氧水平动态变化

继代培养期间的烟草愈伤组织总呼吸速率分别在第11天和第19天出现两次跃升,同时抗氰呼吸的发生与运行逐渐加强,在两呼吸高峰之间达到极大值,随后则逐渐下降,但愈伤组织的电子传递仍以细胞色素途径为主．通过对愈伤组织衰老过程中活性氧代谢变化分析,发现抗氰呼吸发生与H     

萌发绿豆子叶衰老期间蛋白质代谢的变化

萌发绿豆子叶自然衰老过程中可溶性蛋白质含量一直下降;从衰老开始到衰老前期,总游离氨基酸含量明显上升;但游离氨基酸各组分在子叶衰老期间的变化趋势并不相同。~3H-亮氨酸掺入蛋白质试验和多聚核糖体的相对量及其与总核糖体的比值(P/T)测定都证明在子叶衰老前期有蛋白质的新合成。子叶衰老期间。氨肽酶活性明显降低;而以酪蛋白为底物的蛋白水解酶活性却急剧上升,承担着催化蛋白质降解的主要功能。     

5,6-二氯-吲哚乙酸对烟草愈伤组织衰老的延缓作用

5,6-二氯-吲哚乙酸对革新烟草愈伤组织生长有影响。当愈伤组织在MS_0(对照)和MS 2,4-D培养基上培养22d时,生长停滞,细胞已呈空泡状,正常的超微结构完全破坏,细胞器不复存在,愈伤组织明显褐化。但在MS 5,6-Gl_2-IAA培养基上的愈伤组织仍能正常生长,鲜重和干重下降亦明显延缓,细胞含有原生质内含物,各种细胞器的超微结构仍保持正常。此外,后者的SOD同工酶也明显不同于其它培养基上的愈伤组织,暗示5,6-Gl_2-IAA对烟草愈伤组织衰老的延缓作用可能与SOD同工酶的调节作用有关。     

蓝光对绿豆下胚轴愈伤组织形成和生长过程中蛋白质代谢的影响

蓝光、白光和黑暗对绿豆下胚轴愈伤组织形成和生长过程中蛋白质代谢的影响不同。培养后３～１８ ｄ ,蓝光处理材料的可溶性蛋白质含量明显高于白光处理,更高于黑暗培养的材料。蓝光和白光明显促进３Ｈ亮氨酸掺入蛋白质,而蓝光和白光处理后游离氨基酸含量与黑暗对照相比,下降时间早,幅度大。在培养过程中,蛋白酶活性的变化与游离氨基酸相似。蛋白质合成抑制剂环己酰亚胺（ＣＨＭ） 抑制愈伤组织生长,其中以蓝光最大,白光次之,黑暗最小。在培养基中加入ＣＨＭ 愈早,抑制程度愈大。实验表明,ＣＨＭ 抑制愈伤组织蛋白质合成,也是以蓝光最甚。由此可见,蓝光促进绿豆下胚轴愈伤组织的形成、生长和蛋白质合成。     

吲哚乙酸、吲哚乙酸氧化酶和几种愈伤组织生长的关系

将大豆(Glycine max(L.)Merr.)哈密瓜(Cucumus melo L.var saccharinus)烟草(Nicotianatabacum L.)和毛白杨(Populus tometasa Carr.)的愈伤组织分别接种在附加IAA4毫克/升和激动素0.5毫克/升的Miller液体培养基上。烟草和哈密瓜的愈伤组织迅速地生长,能持续到50天左右;而大豆和毛白杨的愈伤组织生长缓慢,且20天就停止生长。 测定培养中IAA的消耗情况表明,接种大豆和哈密瓜的愈伤组织的培养液IAA消耗最快,到第四天就消耗完了;接种毛白杨愈伤组织的培养液IAA消耗次之,到第六天也消耗完了;接种烟草愈伤组织的培养液IAA消耗最慢,到第20天仍有加入量的2.8％。 培养液中IAA的消耗与吲哚乙酸氧化酶的活性有密切的关系。吲哚乙酸氧化酶的活性越高,IAA消耗越快,大豆、烟草和毛白杨愈伤组织的生长也随IAA的降低而减慢,但是哈密瓜愈伤组织的生长在IAA消耗完以后,仍能持续生长多日。因此可以认为有些愈伤组织的生长为其所包含的吲哚乙酸氧化酶的活性所制约;有的并不如此。     

不同分化状态的白百利烟草愈伤组织在生长过程中核酸蛋白质的变化

本文报道了在正常分化芽和根、诱导芽或恨定向发生的白百利烟草(Nico-tiana tabacum Baibaili)愈伤组织在生长过程中DNA、RNA和蛋白质变化的结果。MS+0.2mg/1NAA+0.2mg/1 KT诱导白百利烟草愈伤组织正常分化出芽和根,MS+0.05mg/1NAA+2mg/1KT诱导愈防组织定向地芽发生,MS+0.5mg/1NAA+0.05mg/1KT诱导愈伤组织定向地根发生。在定向诱导芽或根发生愈伤组织里的RNA和蛋白质合成的第一个高峰出现,比正常发生芽和根的愈伤组织里DNA、RNA和蛋白质的第一个高峰迟5天,在芽发生的愈伤组织里DNA峰出现也迟5天,在根发生的愈伤组织里DNA蜂,则相同于正常分化的愈伤组织DNA峰出现。外源的植物生长物质诱导器官定向发生的作用表现在RNA水平上。在三种分化状态的愈伤组织里,蛋白质组成在第8天表现出明显的差异。41KD和46KD蛋白质在器官的定向发生中可能起着相当重要的作用。     

烟草愈伤组织继代培养与分化期间核酸代谢的比较研究

柳叶烟草愈伤组织在分化和芽原基形成期间,DNA 和RNA 含量均高于继代培养物;在芽原基形成后和幼芽生长期间(12天以后),DNA和RNA 含量持续上升,而同期继代培养物巳进入生长静止期,DNA 和RNA 含量基本不变或略有下降。根据RNA 电泳结果还进一步分析了两种愈伤组织培养物各RNA 组分变化与总RNA 含量变化的关系。分化培养物在芽原基形成时有明显升高的RNase 活性峰和持续上升的RNA 合成速率;而此时期继代培养物的RNase 活性及RNA 合成能力均较低;分化愈伤组织的DNA 合成速率在幼芽生长期间仍维持上升趋势,且显著高于同期继代愈伤组织的合成速率。这些结果表明,烟草愈伤组织分化培养物比继代培养物有更旺盛的核酸代谢能力。     

苜蓿愈伤组织中的盐胁迫蛋白

0.5％NaCl抑制愈伤组织生长,处理后期(第21天和28天检测)24kD蛋白含量明显增加。1.0％,2.0％和3.0％NaCl处理的愈伤组织不生长,未检出24kD蛋白增加,但36～42kD蛋白大量增加,并且有随处理的盐浓度增高而增加的趋势。 在1.0％NaCl适应愈伤组织(简称S-1)中24kD蛋白含量明显增加,而36～42 kD蛋白含量下降到对照水平。~(35)S-Met体内标记表明,增加的24kD蛋白是新合成的。S-1回到无盐5代后,仍保持提高的耐盐性和24kD蛋白含量。24kD蛋白含量的增加不受甘露醇胁迫的诱导。初步离心分离的细胞亚组分表明,24kD蛋白主要位于胞质和细胞器膜。在烟草S-1细胞中也发现24kD蛋白含量增加。     

杜仲愈伤组织中次生代谢产物积累动态研究

以杜仲愈伤组织为材料,研究了不同接种量及培养时间、不同来源的愈伤组织及其继代次数对愈伤组织生长和次生代谢产物含量的影响。结果表明,愈伤组织继代培养时接种量在0．35g左右比较合适。愈伤组织的生长曲线大致呈S形,在20d时达到最大值,而总黄酮和绿原酸的含量均在16d时达到最大值。在继代培养中,茎和叶愈伤组织的增长量、绿原酸和总黄酮含量均在第三代达到最大值;下胚轴诱导的愈伤组织的增长量、绿原酸和总黄酮含量均在第四代达到最大值;子叶愈伤组织的增长量和总黄酮含量在第五代达到最大值,绿原酸含量于第四代达到最大值。不同来源的愈伤组织中,叶愈伤组织中绿原酸含最最高,下胚轴愈伤组织中总黄酮含量最高。     

A Comparative Study on Protein Metabolism During Subculture and Differentiation of Tobacco Callus

Comparative study on the subcultured callus of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Willow leaf) has revealed that protein contents and pr otease activities slowly decreased in the callus during differentiation and bud formation. The synthetic rates of fraction Ⅱ protein (water soluble protein and enzymes) and ribosomal hist one, the levels of total ribosomes, especially the levels of polyribosomes which function the protein synthesis, were higher in the differentiating callus than those in the subcultured callus. This indicates that protein synthesis in differentiating callus is greater than that in non-differentiating callus, and that the protein pattern synthesized in differentiating callus may differ from that in non-differentiating callus. During the late period of culture, the protease activities in subcultured callus rapidly increased, and the levels of polyribosomes, protein synthetic rates and protein contents apparently declined, which may be the result of metabolic changes in callus senescence. Meanwhile in the differentiating callus the protein contents, protein synthesis rates and polyribosome levels although somewhat declined accempanying the growth of formed bud, were still much higher than those in the subcultured callus.     

Polyribosomes from Pear Fruit: Changes during Ripening and Senescence

Polysome profiles were examined from lyophilized peel tissue of ripening pear (Pyrus communis, L. var. Passe-Crassane). Messenger RNA chains bearing up to eight ribosomes (octamers) were resolved and exhibited the highest absorption peak when ribonuclease activity was eliminated during extraction. Neither normal ripening nor the increase of large polyribosomes that normally accompanies ripening and senescence of the fruit occurred when pretreatment at 0 C was omitted. Normal ripening and increase of large polyribosomes would, however, be initiated by an ethylene treatment. The size distribution of the polyribosomes remained essentially constant throughout a 4-month cold storage; there was, however, a large increase in ribosomes by the 12th week of storage.     

Quantitative changes in in vitro and in vivo protein synthesis in aging and rejuvenated soybean cotyledons

Cotyledons of light-grown soybean (Glycine max L. var Wayne) seedlings were used as a model system to study the possibility that aging requires qualitative changes in protein synthesis. Cotyledons reached a final stage of senescence and then abscised about 22 days after imbibition. Cotyledon senescence was reversed at 20 days after germination by epicotyl removal. Thereafter, the cotyledons regained much of the chlorophyll, RNA, protein, and polyribosomes lost during aging.

Total poly(A)mRNA was extracted from 4-, 12-, 20-day-old, and rejuvenated cotyledons and translated in a wheat germ system. Comparison of translation products on two-dimensional O'Farrell gels showed that many translation products increased in quantity during aging, while roughly half as many decreased. Rejuvenation returned the translation products to approximately 4-day-old levels in roughly half of those products which were diminished with age. Conversely, almost one-third of the products which had increased with age decreased with rejuvenation. None of the translation products were totally lost nor were newly synthesized products detected during aging. Therefore, aging in this system probably does not involve complete gene repression or depression. The observation that epicotyl removal causes a reversal in the levels of various proteins synthesized in vitro was corroborated by similar observations following in vivo labeling of cotyledon sections and analysis by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and fluorography. Densitometric scans of fluorograms revealed a gradual shift in profiles of both in vitro and in vivo translation products during aging. Rejuvenated cotyledon proteins had a profile resembling that of 4-day-old cotyledons. The overall level of [³⁵S]methionine incorporation into protein in vivo declined gradually during aging but was restored to 4-day-old levels within 2 days after epicotyl removal.

     

Protein synthesis in BHK-21 cells infected with semliki forest virus.

[3H]leucine-labeled proteins synthesized in BHK-21 cells infected with Semliki Forest virus were fractionated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). Cellular and virus-specific proteins were identified by difference analysis of the PAGE profiles. The specific activity of intracellular [3H-A1leucine was determined. Two alterations of protein synthesis, which develop with different time courses, were discerned. (i) In infected cultures an inhibition of overall protein synthesis to about 25% of the protein synthesis in mock-infected cultures develops between about 1 and 4 h postinfection (p.i.). (ii) The relative amount of virus-specific polypeptides versus cellular polypeptides increases after infection. About 80% of the proteins synthesized at 4 h p.i. are cellular proteins. Since significant amounts of nontranslocating robosomes in polyribosomes were not detected up to 7 h p.i., the inhibition of protein synthesis is not caused by inactivation of about 75% of all polyribosomes but by a decreased protein synthetic activity of the majority of polyribosomes. Indirect evidence indicates that an inhibition of elongation and/or release of protein synthesis develops in infected cells, which is sufficient to account for the observed inhibition of protein synthesis. Inhibition of over-all protein synthesis developed when virus-specific RNA began to accumulate at the maximal rate. This relationship was observed during virus multiplication at 37, 30, and 25 C. A possible mechanism by which synthesis of virus-specific RNA in the cytoplasm could inhibit cellular protein synthesis is discussed. Indirect evidence and analysis of polyribosomal RNA show that the increased synthesis of virus-specific protein is brought about by a substitution of cellular by viral mRNA in the polyribosomes.     

PERSISTENCE OF MESSENGER RNA THROUGH MITOSIS IN HELA CELLS

The decrease in protein synthesis which occurs in mammalian cells during cell division is associated with significant disaggregation of polyribosomes. For determining whether messenger RNA survives this disaggregation, the reformation of polyribosomes was investigated in synchronized HeLa cells as they progressed from metaphase into interphase in the presence of 2 µg/ml Actinomycin D. The persistence of messenger during cell division was evidenced by: (1) a progressive increase in the rate of protein synthesis in both treated and untreated cells for 45 min after metaphase; (2) reformation of polyribosomes, as determined by both sucrose gradients and electron microscopy, within 30 min after the addition of Actinomycin D to metaphase cells; (3) the persistence of approximately 50% of the rapidly labeled nonribosomal RNA which had associated with polyribosomes just before metaphase; (4) the resumption of synthesis, following cell division, of 6 selected peptides in Actinomycin-treated cells.     

Protein Synthesis in BHK-21 Cells Infected with Semliki Forest Virus

[³H]leucine-labeled proteins synthesized in BHK-21 cells infected with Semliki Forest virus were fractionated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE). Cellular and virus-specific proteins were identified by difference analysis of the PAGE profiles. The specific activity of intracellular [³H]leucine was determined. Two alterations of protein synthesis, which develop with different time courses, were discerned. (i) In infected cultures an inhibition of overall protein synthesis to about 25% of the protein synthesis in mock-infected cultures develops between about 1 and 4 h postinfection (p.i.). (ii) The relative amount of virus-specific polypeptides versus cellular polypeptides increases after infection. About 80% of the proteins synthesized at 4 h p.i. are cellular proteins. Since significant amounts of nontranslocating ribosomes in polyribosomes were not detected up to 7 h p.i., the inhibition of protein synthesis is not caused by inactivation of about 75% of all polyribosomes but by a decreased protein synthetic activity of the majority of polyribosomes. Indirect evidence indicates that an inhibition of elongation and/or release of protein synthesis develops in infected cells, which is sufficient to account for the observed inhibition of protein synthesis. Inhibition of over-all protein synthesis developed when virus-specific RNA began to accumulate at the maximal rate. This relationship was observed during virus multiplication at 37, 30, and 25 C. A possible mechanism by which synthesis of virus-specific RNA in the cytoplasm could inhibit cellular protein synthesis is discussed. Indirect evidence and analysis of polyribosomal RNA show that the increased synthesis of virus-specific protein is brought about by a substitution of cellular by viral mRNA in the polyribosomes.     

Biosynthesis in vitro of tryptophanase by polyribosomes from induced cultures of Escherichia coli

1. Polyribosomes were isolated from Escherichia coli grown in media in which tryptophanase is induced and in which it is repressed. The polyribosomes from the induced bacteria had a small amount of tryptophanase activity associated with them. 2. A portion of the enzyme activity remained bound to polyribosomes during centrifuging in sucrose gradients. 3. Incubation of tryptophanase-containing polyribosomes with puromycin released enzyme activity. 4. The binding of the enzyme to the polyribosomes did not depend on the presence of DNA. 5. When the polyribosomes were incubated under conditions of protein synthesis with supernatant fraction obtained from repressed bacteria, a small but statistically significant increase in enzyme activity was produced. 6. When a radioactive amino acid was included in the incubation mixture for the tryptophanase system a radioactive protein was obtained whose chromatographic, electrophoretic and sedimentation properties were identical with those of tryptophanase. 7. The amount of incorporation was consistent with the amount of new enzyme synthesis predicted by the increase in enzyme activity. Both radioactive incorporation and increase in enzyme activity were shown to be energy-dependent and also negative controls were obtained by using zero-time incubations or polyribosomes isolated from either repressed cells or a mutant lacking the ability to produce tryptophanase. 8. The distribution of radioactive leucine in the carboxyl region of the newly labelled tryptophanase was examined by digesting the labelled protein with carboxypeptidases. It was shown that the radioactivity was more highly concentrated towards the carboxyl terminus when the incubation times for protein synthesis were shorter (implying that, with longer incubation times, longer lengths of polypeptide chain contained radioactive amino acid residues).     

Polyribosomes in isolated liver cells. Preparative procedures, effects of incubation and correlation with protein synthesis.

Methods have been derived which permit the isolation of undergraded polyribosomes from isolated rat liver cells. Under the conditions used the polyribosome profile of hepatocytes immediately after isolation was essentially identical with that from intact liver. However, during incubation of cells in complex physiological media there was a progressive dissociation of polyribosomes. The addition of a variety of factors that produce reaggregation of polyribosomes in rat liver in vivo did not prevent dissociation during cell incubations. Although large polyribosomes were lost most rapidly, the albumin-synthesizing capacity of isolated cells was not selectively lost when compared with total protein synthesis. The significance of these results for the use of isolated hepatocytes in the study of liver protein synthesis is discussed.     

Trichodermin,a possible inhibitor of the termination process of protein synthesis

The mode of action of the antibiotic, trichodermin, on yeast cells has been investigated. Trichodermin specifically inhibits protein synthesis and, during the in vivo inhibition of protein synthesis, ribosomes remain in polyribosomes rather than shifting to monoribosomes. This observation suggests that trichodermin inhibits either an elongation step or a termination step of protein biosynthesis. These two possibilities were distinguished by comparing the action of trichodermin with that of cycloheximide, a known elongation inhibitor, upon the reformation of polyribosomes during recovery from a block in polypeptide chain initiation. Cycloheximide slows the recovery of polyribosomes from monoribosomes following a block in polypeptide chain initiation whereas trichodermin enhances the recovery of polyribosomes. This observation is interpreted to mean that trichodermin primarily inhibits the termination step of protein biosynthesis.     

Induction of microtubule protein synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardi during flagellar regeneration

Flagellar regeneration in gametes of Chlamydomonas reinhardi is initiated within 15–20 min after flagellar amputation and proceeds at a rapid but decelerating rate until by 90 min flagellar outgrowth is 80–85% complete. Sufficient flagellar protein reserves exist in the cytoplasm to allow regeneration of flagella $\text{1}\text{3}\text{–}\text{1}\text{2}$ normal length. Nevertheless, in vivo labeling with ¹⁴C-amino acids shows that microtubule protein and other flagellar proteins are synthesized de novo during flagellar regeneration. To determine whether tubulin is synthesized continuously by gametic cells or whether its synthesis is induced as a consequence of deflagellation, we have isolated polyribosomes from deflagellated and control cells, and analyzed the proteins produced by these polyribosomes during in vitro translation. Two proteins of 53,000 and 56,000 molecular weight which co-migrate with flagellar and chick brain tubulin on SDS-polyacrylamide gels and which selectively co-assemble with chick brain tubulin during in vitro microtubule assembly are synthesized by polyribosomes (or polyadenylated mRNA) from deflagellated cells. No microtubule proteins can be detected in the translation products synthesized by polyribosomes (or mRNA) from control cells, clearly indicating that deflagellation results in the induction of tubulin synthesis.Kinetics of tubulin synthesis demonstrate that induction takes place immediately after deflagellation; polyribosomes bearing tubulin mRNA can be detected in the cytoplasm in as little as 15 min after removal of flagella. Maximal rates of tubulin synthesis occur between 45 and 90 min after deflagellation when approximately 14% of the protein being synthesized by the cell is tubulin. This estimate of tubulin synthesis based on in vitro translation data agrees well with in vivo measurements of flagellar tubulin synthesis. While high levels of tubulin production extend well beyond the period of rapid flagellar assembly, synthesis begins to decline after 90 min, and by 180 min after deflagellation only low levels of tubulin mRNA are detectable in polyribosomes.