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Barley Aleurone Layers Secrete a Nuclease in Response to Gibberellic Acid ¹

Purification and Partial Characterization of the Associated Ribonuclease, Deoxyribonuclease, and 3'-Nucleotidase Activities

Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

Incubation of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv Himalaya) half-seeds with gibberellic acid enhances the secretion of ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease from aleurone tissue (MJ Chrispeels, JE Varner 1967 Plant Physiol 42: 398-406; L Taiz, JE Starks 1977 Plant Physiol 60: 182-189). These activities were over 50-fold greater in medium of half-seeds incubated with gibberellic acid than in control medium. Ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease activities initially appeared in the medium 24 to 48 hours after hormone induction and increased for up to 96 hours. Both activities had a pH optimum of 6.0 and a temperature optimum of 55°C. When the medium from gibberellic acid-treated half-seeds was analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the major ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease activity bands comigrated. The two enzyme activities remained associated throughout a 2,700-fold purification employing ammonium sulfate fractionation, Heparin-Agarose affinity chromatography, and Reactive Blue 2-Agarose affinity chromatography. Also accompanying the ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease activities throughout purification was the ability to hydrolyze the 3'-phosphoester linkage of 3'-AMP. The purified protein was composed of a single polypeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 36 kilodaltons as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. It is concluded that in response to gibberellic acid, barley aleurone tissue secretes a nuclease having ribonuclease, deoxyribonuclease, and 3'-nucleotidase activities.

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