Dose responses for Colletotrichum lindemuthianum elicitor-mediated enzyme induction in French bean cell suspension cultures |
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Authors: | R A Dixon P M Dey D L Murphy I M Whitehead |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, Royal Holloway College (University of London), Egham Hill, TW20 OEX Egham, Surrey, UK |
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Abstract: | The induction of L-phenylalanine ammonialyase (PAL, EC 4.3.1.5) and flavanone synthase in French bean cell suspension cultures in response to heat-released elicitor from cell walls of the phytopathogenic fungus Colletotrichum lindemuthianum is highly dependent upon elicitor concentration. The elicitor dose-response curve for PAL induction shows two maxima at around 17.5 and 50 g elicitor carbohydrate per ml culture, whereas the flavanone synthase response shows one maximum at around 100 g ml-1. The PAL response is independent of the elicitor concentration present during the lag phase of enzyme induction; if the initial elicitor concentration is increased after 2 h by addition of extra elicitor, or decreased by dilution of the cultures, the dose response curves obtained reflect the concentration of elicitor present at the time of harvest. PAL induction is not prevented by addition of methyl sugar derivatives to the cultures; -methyl-D-glucoside, itself a weak elicitor of PAL activity, elicits a multiphasic PAL response when increasing concentrations are added in the presence of Colletotrichum elicitor. Eight fractions with different monosaccharide compositions, obtained from the crude elicitor by gel-filtration, each elicit different dose-responses for PAL induction; the response to unfractionated elicitor is not the sum of the response to the isolated fractions. There is no correlation between the ability of the fractions to induce PAL in the cultures and their ability to act as elicitors of isoflavonoid phytoalexin accumulation in bean hypocotyls.Abbreviations PAL
phenylalanine ammonia-lyase
- PMS
Phytophthora megasperma var sojae |
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Keywords: | Cell suspension culture Colletotrichum Elicitor Flavanone synthase Phaseolus Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase Phytoalexin |
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