Effect of Ca2+ on programmed death of guard and epidermal cells of pea leaves |
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Authors: | D. B. Kiselevsky Yu. E. Kuznetsova L. A. Vasil’ev N. V. Lobysheva R. A. Zinovkin A. V. Nesov A. A. Shestak V. D. Samuilov |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia 2. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract: | The effect of Ca2+ on programmed death of guard cells (GC) and epidermal cells (EC) determined from destruction of the cell nucleus was investigated in epidermis of pea leaves. Ca2+ at concentrations of 1–100 μM increased and at a concentration of 1 mM prevented the CN—induced destruction of the nucleus in GC, disrupting the permeability barrier of GC plasma membrane for propidium iodide (PI). Ca2+ at concentrations of 0.1–1 mM enhanced drastically the number of EC nuclei stained by PI in epidermis treated with chitosan, an inducer of programmed cell death. The internucleosomal DNA fragmentation caused by CN? was suppressed by 2 mM Ca2+ on 6 h incubation, but fragmentation was stimulated on more prolonged treatment (16 h). Presumably, the disruption of the permeability barrier of plasma membrane for PI is not a sign of necrosis in plant cells. Quinacrine and diphenylene iodonium at 50 μM concentration prevented GC death induced by CN? or CN? + 0.1 mM Ca2+ but had no influence on respiration and photosynthetic O2 evolution in pea leaf slices. The generation of reactive oxygen species determined from 2′,7′-dichlorofluorescein fluorescence was promoted by Ca2+ in epidermal peels from pea leaves. |
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