Abstract
Proteases from mesophyll protoplasts of Melilotus alba were identified by standard proteolytic assays and separated using different chromatographic techniques. Their characterization also included their subcellular location. Besides the evidence for the multiplicity of the proteolytic enzymes, two protease sets were distinguished endopeptidases, which are exclusively vacuolar, and aminopeptidases, which are widely distributed throughout the cell. Cytosol-located enzymes were tested as substrates of the two sets of proteases, by studying comparatively the time-course changes of enzyme activities during incubation in total protoplast extracts, or in cytosol fractions devoid of vacuolar proteases. The degradation of phosphoenolpyruvate-carboxylase protein, a typical cytosolic enzyme, in the presence of purified amino-and endopeptidases, was also estimated by immunoprecipitation studies. Only the vacuolar endopeptidases are effective in the degradation of cytosolic enzymes. Hydrolytic enzyme activities mostly of vacuolar origin were very stable during incubation in total protoplast extracts. These proteins therefore appear to be particularly resistant to proteolytic attack. The results indicate that, in plants, the effective proteolytic system acting on cytosolic enzymes seems to be vacuole-located, and that the selectivity in protein degradation may be imposed by the susceptibility of the protein being degraded and by its transfer into the vacuoles.
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Abbreviations
- Leu-pNA:
-
leucine-p-nitroanilide
- lys-p-NA:
-
lysine-p-nitroanilide
- pCMB:
-
p-chloromercuribenzoic acid
- PEPCase:
-
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase
- PMSF:
-
phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride
- SDS-PAGE:
-
sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
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Canut, H., Dupré, M., Carrasco, A. et al. Proteases of Melilotus alba mesophyll protoplasts. Planta 170, 541–549 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402989
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