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Transport of Anions in Isolated Barley Vacuoles ¹

I. Permeability to Anions and Evidence for a Cl^–-Uptake System

Lehrstuhl für Botanik I, Universität Würzburg, Mittlerer Dallenbergweg 64, D-8700 Würzburg, West Germany

The anion contents of young barley leaves and of mesophyll protoplasts from the leaves was compared. Anion loss from the protoplasts during isolation was small. Although only about 60% of the leaf cells were mesophyll cells, phosphate and sulfate contents of the mesophyll cells accounted for almost 90% of the leaf contents. Chloride accumulated in the leaf epidermis. The rapid isolation of vacuoles from mesophyll protoplasts permitted the determination of vacuolar ion concentrations. Sodium and nitrate levels were very low in the cytoplasm, and much higher in the vacuole. When barley plants were grown in the presence of low NaCl levels, chloride concentrations were comparable in cytoplasm and vacuole, and similar observations were made with sulfate. Cytoplasmic phosphate concentrations were close to 30 millimolar and potassium concentrations 100 millimolar. During a 30 minute incubation period at room temperature, anion contents of isolated vacuoles decreased considerably. Efflux of NO₃^– was faster than that of Cl^–. Phosphate and sulfate crossed the tonoplast only slowly. 4,4'-Diisothiocyano-2,2'-stilbenedisulfonic acid partially inhibited the efflux of nitrate and, to a lesser extent, that of chloride. Decreased efflux was also observed in the presence of MgATP. In remarkable contrast, p-chloromercuribenzene sulfonate and HgCl₂ stimulated the efflux of nitrate and chloride, but not of phosphate. Labeled chloride was taken up by isolated vacuoles. The apparent K_m for chloride uptake at low chloride concentrations was 2.3 millimolar. At elevated chloride concentrations, chloride did not display saturation characteristics but, rather, characteristics of a diffusional process. Uptake was stimulated by ATP.

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