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Plant Physiology 81:36-40 (1986)
© 1986 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Amino Acid Transport in Suspension-Cultured Plant Cells 1

VI. Influence of pH Buffers, Calcium, and Preincubation Media on L-Leucine Uptake

Mark A. Schneegurt2 and Carl N. McDaniel

Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590

The rate at which L-leucine was transported into suspension-cultured Nicotiana tabacum cv Wisconsin 38 cells increased more than 2-fold over a period of hours when the cells were preincubated in a 1% sucrose solution. This increase in uptake rate was eliminated if certain tris buffers were included in the preincubation solution while other buffers had little effect. Calcium could reverse the effect of the inhibitory buffers only if the buffer and calcium were present together from the beginning of the preincubation period. It was the amine group of the inhibitory buffers which was responsible for the inhibition. Preincubation in a complete culture medium (EM Linsmaier, F Skoog 1965 Physiol Plant 18: 100-127) led to minimal changes in L-leucine uptake rate over a 10 hour preincubation period indicating that the uptake rate was stabilized by this medium. The complete medium stabilized the L-leucine uptake rate as a result of its ionic composition and not because of its osmolarity. Most of the increased uptake rate observed after preincubation in a 1% sucrose solution could be inhibited by 2,4-dinitrophenol or carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone, or high concentrations of L-phenyl-alanine or L-leucine. Therefore much of the increase could be accounted for by an increase in active transport of L-leucine.

2 Current address: Box G, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.

1 Supported in part by National Science Foundation grant (DCB84-09709) to C. N. M.






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