Abstract
Cell suspension cultures of soybean (Glycine max L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) incorporated 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) into a metabolite fraction which was insoluble in ethanol, water, and hot sodium dodecylsulphate. Further treatment with hot dimethylformamide solubilized a material which by the following criteria appeared to consist of 2,4-D derivatives covalently bound to lignin: i) co-chromatography of radioactivity and of UV-absorbing material upon gel permeation chromatography; ii) spectral similarity with authentic lignins (IR- and UV-spectra, phloroglucinol reaction), 2,4-D appeared to be incorporated as the intact molecule, as shown by comparison of ring- and sidechain-labeled 2,4-D and by detection of monohydroxylated and intact 2,4-D as the major radioactive products of acid hydrolysis. The same compounds were released from the metabolite material which could not be solubilized in dimethylformamide. The incorporation of xenobiotics or their metabolites into lignin, followed by deposition in the cell wall, is suggested as a general pathway for ‘local excretion’ and detoxification by plant cells.
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Abbreviations
- 2,4-D:
-
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
- 4-OH-2,5-D:
-
4-hydroxy-2,5-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
- SDS:
-
sodium dodecylsulphate
- DMF:
-
dimethylformamide
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Scheel, D., Sandermann, H. Metabolism of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in cell suspension cultures of soybean (Glycine max L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Planta 152, 253–258 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385153
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