Abstract
Various protein reactive agents such as dithioerythritol, dithiothreitol, mercaptoethanol and p-chloromercuribenzoate inhibit binding of ethylene to cell free preparations of Phaseolus vulgaris L. The effect of the thiols is partially reversed by treatment with diamide; occupation of the binding site by ligand diminishes the inhibition caused by p-chloromercuribenzoate but not that caused by thiols. Growth regulators other than ethylene do not affect binding. Physiologically active structural analogues of ethylene competitively inhibit binding of the growth regulator and their relative effectiveness in the cell free system closely resembles that in developmental processes controlled ethylene.
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Abbreviations
- DTE:
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dithioerythritol
- DTT:
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dithiothreitol
- EPPS:
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N-2-hydroxyethyl-piperazine propane sulphonic acid
- ME:
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mercaptoethanol
- PCMB:
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p-chloromercuribenzoate
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Bengochea, T., Acaster, M.A., Dodds, J.H. et al. Studies on ethylene binding by cell free preparations from cotyledons of Phaseolus vulgaris L.. Planta 148, 407–411 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00388130
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