Abstract
Suspension cultures of Papaver bracteatum Arya II Lindl., grown without hormone in the presence of conidial extracts of Verticillium dahliae Kleb., accumulate millimolar quantities of the benzophenanthridine alkaloid, sanguinarine. Under the fluorescence microscope, the elicitor-treated cells display an orange-yellow fluorescence characteristic of sanguinarine, primarily near the periphery of the cells. Electron-microscopic inspection showed the presence of slightly dilated endoplasmic reticulum and of electron-dense protuberances on the tonoplast of large central vacuoles. These osmiophilic aggregates lining the tonoplast bud into spherical bodies, appear to become detached from the membrane and are released into the vacuole. Upon subcellular fractionation of elicited cells on Renografin step gradients, sanguinarine was found to be distributed in all bands but with 86% concentrated in the gradient pellet. Analysis of the pellet by electron microscopy showed that it contained electron-dense fragments similar to the osmiophilic bodies observed on the tonoplast of intact elicited cells. In elicited cell cultures, most of the sanguinarine was recovered from medium in a 100·g sedimenting, cell-free, particulate fraction accounting for as much as 85% of the media sanguinarine and 62% of the total sanguinarine. The sanguinarine-rich 100·g media pellet was determined to be two-thirds protein, one-third RNA and was essentially devoid of phenolics, phospholipid and DNA. The pellet consisted of electrondense material and cytoplasmic remnants resembling those found in the Renografin pellet and tonoplast aggregates of intact cells. When placed under hypotonic conditions or extracted with aqueous buffer, pH 3–11, the pellet did not release sanguinarine. These observations provide evidence for storage of sanguinarine at electron-dense deposits which occur on the tonoplast and as freely floating bodies in vacuoles.
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Abbreviations
- BA:
-
N6-benzyladenine
- 2,4-D:
-
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
- EM:
-
electron microscopy
- ER:
-
endoplasmic reticulum
- HPLC:
-
high-pressure liquid chromatography
- MRST:
-
Murashige and Skoog's revised tobacco medium
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Cline, S.D., Coscia, C.J. Ultrastructural changes associated with the accumulation and secretion of sanguinarine in Papaver bracteatum suspension cultures treated with fungal elicitor. Planta 178, 303–314 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00391858
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