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Studies on the Presence of Adenosine Cyclic 3':5'-Monophosphate in Oat Coleoptiles ¹

Joe L. Key^b

^a Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, Department of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30601

The incorporation of adenosine-8-¹⁴C into adenosine cyclic 3':5'-monophosphate in coleoptile-first leaf segments of Avena sativa L. was investigated. Homogenates of segments incubated in adenosine-8-¹⁴C for either 4 or 10 hours were partially purified by thin layer chromatography followed by paper electrophoresis. A radioactive fraction, less than 0.06% of the ¹⁴C present in the original homogenate, migrated as adenosine cyclic 3':5'-monophosphate during electrophoresis. Upon treatment with cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, however, less than 10% of this radioactive fraction appeared as 5'-AMP. Deamination with NaNO₂ as well as further chromatographical purification also suggested that only a small fraction of the ¹⁴C in the partially purified samples could be in adenosine cyclic 3':5'-monophosphate. The data suggest that levels of this nucleotide can probably be no greater than 7 to 11 picomoles per gram of fresh weight in oat coleoptiles. Treatment of such coleoptiles with physiologically active concentrations of indoleacetic acid, furthermore, had no significant effect on the ¹⁴C radioactivity in marker adenosine cyclic 3':5'-monophosphate-containing fractions at any stage of purification during several experiments.

In a single experiment, no labeled guanosine cyclic 3':5'-monophosphate could be detected in oat coleoptile-first leaf segments incubated in guanosine-8-¹⁴C either with or without indoleacetic acid. These results do not support the hypothesis that a cyclic nucleotide mediates the action of indoleacetic acid on oat coleoptile extension.

¹ This research was supported by Grant GB 38625 from the National Science Foundation to C. Ross, and by United States Public Health Service Grant CA 11624 from the National Cancer Institute to J. Key.