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A cytochemical method for the localization of nucleotide pyrophosphatase activity in plants employing naphthol AS-BI thymidine 5′-monophosphate and α-naphthyl thymidine 5′-monophosphate as specific substrates is reported. Biochemical evidence for the validity of this method is presented and the synthesis of the naphthol AS-BI ester is described.
The application of this cytochemical technique to shoots ofTriticum sp. and roots ofVicia faba has shown nucleotide pyrophosphatase to be ubiquitous in its distribution in these organs and to occur in a structurally-bound form in the cytoplasm. The highest activity was detected in developing fibres adjacent to the leaf vascular bundles, in the coleoptile epidermal and hypodermal cells and in the coleoptile and leaf xylem.
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Sierakowska, H., Gahan, P.B. & Dawson, A.L. The cytochemical localization of nucleotide pyrophosphatase activity in plant tissues using naphthyl esters of thymidine-5′-phosphate. Histochem J 10, 679–693 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01003118
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