Cellular systems for the study of the biosynthesis of polyamines and ethylene,as well as of virus multiplication |
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Authors: | Seymour S. Cohen Ram K. Sindhu Michael Greenberg Bauri Yamanoha Robert Balint Kevin McCarthy |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Pharmacological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794 Stony Brook, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | Leaves of Chinese cabbage from healthy plants or from those infected with turnip yellow mosaic virus yield protoplasts which convert methionine to protein, S-adenosylmethionine, decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine, spermidine, spermine and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate. The enzyme spermidine synthase is entirely cytosolic and has been purified extensively. An inhibitor of this enzyme, dicyclohexylamine, blocks spermidine synthesis in intact protoplasts, and in so doing stimulates spermine synthesis. Aminoethoxyvinylglycine blocks the conversion of S-adenosylmethionine to 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate, the precursor to ethylene, in protoplasts. This inhibitor markedly stimulates the synthesis of both spermidine and spermine. Essentially all the protoplasts obtained from new leaves of plants infected 7 days earlier are infected. On incubation, such protoplasts convert exogenous methionine to viral protein and viral spermidine whose specific radioactivity is twice that of total cell spermidine. Exogeneous spermidine is also converted to cell putrescine and viral spermidine and spermine. Normal and virus-infected cells are being studied for their content of phenolic acid amides of the polyamines. |
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Keywords: | Brassica chinensis Chinese cabbage turnip yellow mosaic virus spermidine spermine ethylene putrescine |
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