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Using sugar-cane internodal tissue in which RNA synthesis was ratelimiting for invertase of peroxidase synthesis, measurements were made of enzymeforming-capacity after blocking further RNA synthesis with actinomycin D or 6-methylpurine. In this way it was possible to determine whether added auxin (naphthaleneacetic acid) or gibberellic acid (GA3) affected steps prior or subsequent to synthesis of the RNA fractions specifically required for synthesis of either enzyme. Both auxin and GA3 increased the enzyme-forming-capacity for invertase but not for peroxidase. The effects of the two hormones are interpreted as causing stabilization of mRNA for invertase.
Abscisic acid (ABA) increased the rate of synthesis of invertase but not peroxidase. ABA did not change the rate of loss of invertase when peptide-bond formation was blocked with cycloheximide, but stimulated its synthesis when RNA synthesis was blocked with 6-methyl purine. Hence, the site of action of ABA is subsequent to invertase-mRNA formation and prior to invertase destruction.
Kinetin had no short-term effects when RNA synthesis was limiting for invertase production, and does not appear to directly modulate mRNA synthesis or stabilization, or amino-acid-polymerization steps. In treatments longer than 5 hours, kinetin inhibited synthesis of all three enzymes studied, so that its effect on enzyme synthesis in this tissue appears to be unspecific.
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Abbreviations
- ABA:
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(±)-abscisic acid (abscisin II, dormin)
- GA3 :
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gibberellic acid
- NAA:
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α-naphthaleneacetic acid
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Gayler, K.R., Glasziou, K.T. Plant enzyme synthesis: Hormonal regulation of invertase and peroxidase synthesis in sugar cane. Planta 84, 185–194 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398396
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