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First published online July 18, 2002; 10.1104/pp.002659

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Plant Physiol, August 2002, Vol. 129, pp. 1872-1879

Cadmium-Induced Sulfate Uptake in Maize Roots1

Fabio F. Nocito, Livia Pirovano, Maurizio Cocucci, and Gian Attilio Sacchi*

Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy

The effect of cadmium (Cd) on high-affinity sulfate transport of maize (Zea mays) roots was studied and related to the changes in the levels of sulfate and nonprotein thiols during Cd-induced phytochelatin (PC) biosynthesis. Ten micromolar CdCl2 in the nutrient solution induced a 100% increase in sulfate uptake by roots. This was not observed either for potassium or phosphate uptake, suggesting a specific effect of Cd2+ on sulfate transport. The higher sulfate uptake was not dependent on a change in the proton motive force that energizes it. In fact, in Cd-treated plants, the transmembrane electric potential difference of root cortical cells was only slightly more negative than in the controls, the external pH did not change, and the activity of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase did not increase. Kinetics analysis showed that in the range of the high-affinity sulfate transport systems, 10 to 250 µM, Cd exposure did not influence the Km value (about 20 µM), whereas it doubled the Vmax value with respect to the control. Northern-blot analysis showed that Cd-induced sulfate uptake was related to a higher level of mRNA encoding for a putative high-affinity sulfate transporter in roots. Cd-induced sulfate uptake was associated to both a decrease in the contents of sulfate and glutathione and synthesis of a large amount of PCs. These results suggest that Cd-induced sulfate uptake depends on a pretranslational regulation of the high-affinity sulfate transporter gene and that this response is necessary for sustaining the higher sulfur demand during PC biosynthesis.

1 This work was supported by the National Research Council of Italy (Progetto Finalizzato Biotecnologie, Subproject 2, Line 2.1. and CNR-Agenzia 2000, code CNRG00857B).

* Corresponding author; e-mail gianattilio.sacchi{at}unimi.it; fax 39-02-50316525.

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