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Extracellular peroxidases of suspension culture cells of spruce (Picea abies): fungal elicitor-induced inactivation

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Extracellular peroxidases of suspension cultures of spruce (Picea abies) (L.) (Karst) become inactivated when the cell suspension is elicited with a cell wall preparation of the spruce pathogenic fungus Rhizosphaera kalkhoffii. In contrast, cellular peroxidases are induced under these conditions. Both changes of activity are reflected in the isoenzyme profiles.

Inactivation of the extracellular peroxidases is caused by an effector, arising from the cells after contact with the elicitor. Formation of the effector is limited to the beginning of elicitation, showing maximal activity at this period of time. Subsequently it becomes increasingly ineffective, probably due to inactivation. The effector is able to also inactivate commercial (horseradish) peroxidase. Inactivation was not the result of the action of a protease present in the medium.

The elicitor exerts two different effects on the spruce cell suspension culture. It induces synthesis of enzymes correlated with lignin synthesis and an accumulation of lignin-like material. It also induces secretion of the negative effector which inactivates extracellular peroxidases.

The elicitor-induced inactivation is not specific for peroxidases. Other extracellular enzymes, β-glucosidase and acid phosphatase (secreted by the cells into the medium) and α-amylase and pectinase (from Aspergillus strains) are also inactivated.

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Messner, B., Boll, M. Extracellular peroxidases of suspension culture cells of spruce (Picea abies): fungal elicitor-induced inactivation. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 36, 81–90 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00048318

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