Abstract
Photoautotrophic suspension cells ofChenopodium rubrum were used to determine Donnan potential, charge density and pore-radius distribution in the cell wall. Experiments were done either with turgescent cells or with isolated cell walls. Titration of a cell-wall-generated 9-aminoacridine fluorescence quench with salts of mono- and divalent cations was used to determine Donnan potential and charge density. The experiments and theory were adapted from measurements of membrane surface charges. A tenfold increase in ionic strength, which decreases the repellant forces between charges of the same sign, led to an approximately threefold increase in the measured charge density, thus resulting in a much smaller decrease of the Donnan potential than would be expected if the charge density remained fixed. This decreased influence of ionic strength on the Donnan potential, resulting from the elasticity of the cell wall, was also measurable but less pronounced when the wall of intact cells was stretched by turgor. The porosity of the cell wall was determined by longterm uptake of polyethylene glycols of different molecular weights, and by gel filtration of polyethylene glycols and dextrans as well as mono- and disaccharides using intact suspension cells as matrix. Both methods gave a mean pore diameter of about 4.5 nm and a maximum pore size of 5.5 nm. The resulting pores-size distribution was slightly broader with the latter method.
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Abbreviations
- 9-AA:
-
9-aminoacridine
- DMBr2 :
-
decamethoniumbromide=N,N,N,N′,N′,N′ hexamethyldecane-1,10-diaminebromide
- DW:
-
dry weight after lyophilization
- EDTA:
-
ethylene diaminetetra acetic acid
- EGTA:
-
ethylene glycol-bis(β-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N′,N′-tetraacetic acid
- FW:
-
fresh weight
- Mops:
-
3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid
- MW:
-
molecular weight
- PEG:
-
polyethylene glycol
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Gogarten, J.P. Physical properties of the cell wall of photoautotrophic suspension cells fromChenopodium rubrum L.. Planta 174, 333–339 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00959518
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