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Reactive Oxygen Species Formation and Cell Death in Catalase-Deficient Tobacco Leaf Discs Exposed to Paraquat

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In the present work, the response of tobacco (Nicotiana tabaccum L.) wild-type SR1 and transgenic CAT1AS plants (with a basal reduced CAT activity) was evaluated after exposure to the herbicide paraquat (PQ). Superoxide anion (O .−2 ) formation was inhibited at 3 or 21 h of exposure, but H2O2 production and ion leakage increased significantly, both in SR1 or CAT1AS leaf discs. NADPH oxidase activity was constitutively 57% lower in non-treated transgenic leaves than in SR1 leaves and was greatly reduced both at 3 or 21 h of PQ treatment. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was significantly reduced by PQ after 21 h, showing a decrease from 70% to 55%, whereas catalase (CAT) activity decreased an average of 50% after 3 h of treatment, and of 90% after 21 h, in SR1 and CAT1AS, respectively. Concomitantly, total CAT protein content was shown to be reduced in non-treated CAT1AS plants compared to control SR1 leaf discs at both exposure times. PQ decreased CAT expression in SR1 or CAT1AS plants at 3 and 21 h of treatment. The mechanisms underlying PQ-induced cell death were possibly not related exclusively to ROS formation and oxidative stress in tobacco wild-type or transgenic plants.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the University of Buenos Aires (Grant B044). Benavides MP and Groppa MD are researchers of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (IQUIFIB-CONICET) and MF Iannone and EP Rosales have fellowships from CONICET. We thank Dr. Frank van Breusegem, Ghent University, Belgium, for providing SR1 and CAT1AS tobacco seeds.

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    María Florencia Iannone, Eliana Paola Rosales, María Daniela Groppa & María Patricia Benavides

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Iannone, M.F., Rosales, E.P., Groppa, M.D. et al. Reactive Oxygen Species Formation and Cell Death in Catalase-Deficient Tobacco Leaf Discs Exposed to Paraquat. Biol Trace Elem Res 146, 246–255 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12011-011-9244-1

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