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Specific Soybean Lipoxygenases Localize to Discrete Subcellular Compartments and Their mRNAs Are Differentially Regulated by Source-Sink Status1

Lowry C. Stephenson, Thomas W. Bunker, Wesley E. Dubbs, and Howard D. Grimes*

Department of Genetics and Cell Biology (L.C.S., H.D.G.), and Department of Botany (T.W.B., W.E.D., H.D.G.), Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-4238

Members of the lipoxygenase multigene family, found widely in eukaryotes, have been proposed to function in nitrogen partitioning and storage in plants. Lipoxygenase gene responses to source-sink manipulations in mature soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) leaves were examined using gene-specific riboprobes to the five vegetative lipoxygenases (vlxA-vlxE). Steady-state levels of all vlx mRNAs responded strongly to sink limitation, but specific transcripts exhibited differential patterns of response as well. During reproductive sink limitation, vlxA and vlxB messages accumulated to high levels, whereas vlxC and vlxD transcript levels were modest. Immunolocalization using peptide-specific antibodies demonstrated that under control conditions, VLXB was present in the cytosol of the paraveinal mesophyll and with pod removal accumulated additionally in the bundle-sheath and adjacent cells. With sink limitation VLXD accumulated to apparent high levels in the vacuoles of the same cells. Segregation of gene products at the cellular and subcellular levels may thus permit complex patterns of differential regulation within the same cell type. Specific lipoxygenase isoforms may have a role in short-term nitrogen storage (VLXC/D), whereas others may simultaneously function in assimilate partitioning as active enzymes (VLXA/B).

1   This research was funded in part by U.S. Department of Agriculture grant no. 95-03688 to H.D.G.
*   Corresponding author; e-mail grimes{at}wsu.edu; fax 1-509-335-3517.

Plant Physiol. (1998) 116: 923-933
Copyright Clearance Center:   0032-0889/98/116/0923/11
© 1998 American Society of Plant Physiologists




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