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Development and Growth Regulation

Metabolism of Auxin in Tomato Fruit Tissue

Formation of High Molecular Weight Conjugates of Oxindole-3-Acetic Acid via the Oxidation of Indole-3-Acetylaspartic Acid

Institut für Obst-, Gemüse- und Weinbau, Universität Hohenheim, 7000 Stuttgart 70, Germany

High performance liquid chromatography of extracts of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) incubated with a relatively low concentration (4 µm) of [1-¹⁴C]indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) revealed the presence of two major polar metabolites. Hydrolysis of the two metabolites with 7 N NaOH yielded the same compound, which had a retention time similar to that of ring-expanded oxindole-3-acetic acid (OxIAA) on high performance liquid chromatography. The identity of the indolic moiety of these conjugates as OxIAA was further confirmed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Chromatography of the two OxIAA conjugates on a calibrated Bio-Gel P-2 column indicated that their molecular weights are about 1200 and 1000. Aspartic acid and glutamic acid were the major amino acids detected in acid hydrolysates of the two conjugates. Increasing the concentration of IAA in the incubation medium resulted in an increase in the formation of indole-3-acetylaspartic acid (IAAsp) with a concomitant decrease in the formation of the two OxIAA conjugates. Feeding experiments with labeled IAAsp and OxIAA showed that IAAsp and not OxIAA is the precursor of these conjugates. The data obtained indicate that exogenous IAA is converted in tomato pericarp tissue to high molecular weight conjugates, presumably peptides, of OxIAA via the oxidation of IAAsp. The oxidation of IAAsp seems to be a rate-limiting step in the formation of these conjugates from exogenous IAA.

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