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Occurrence of sugar non-specific nuclease in tobacco callus: Changes of nuclease activity during callus growth and plant regeneration

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It was determined using electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels containing native DNA or RNA that sugar non-specific nuclease active at pH 5.2 was expressed in tobacco callus. The nuclease had a relative molecular mass of about 34.6 kDaltons and degraded substrates in the following order of decreasing rate: denaturated DNA>poly dA>UV-irradiated native DNA>native DNA>alkylated native DNA>apurinated native DNA>poly dG≳poly dC. The nuclease activity changed during callus growth and plant regeneration, but no developmental changes in electrophoretic patterns were detected. The increase in specific DNAse activity of nuclease was maximal in the exponential phase of callus growth on both growth and regeneration media, except for activity in the cytokinin-independent cell strain grown on growth medium. The specific DNAse activity of nuclease decreased during the bud formation period, while total DNAse activity calculated per mg of dry weight was slightly higher in vegetative buds (9.1U) than in undifferentiated tissue of callus (8.5U). Specific DNAse activity was, on the average, several hundred-fold lower in the vegetative tissues of flowering tobacco plants than in calluses in the exponential phase of growth.

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  1. Institute of Experimental Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 702, CS-370 05, České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia

    Jaroslav Matoušek, Slavomír Rakouský & Blanka Němcová

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Matoušek, J., Rakouský, S. & Němcová, B. Occurrence of sugar non-specific nuclease in tobacco callus: Changes of nuclease activity during callus growth and plant regeneration. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 8, 61–71 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00040733

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