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Plant Physiol. (1999) 120: 371-382
Isolation of Tobacco Isoperoxidases Accumulated in
Cell-Suspension Culture Medium and Characterization
of Activities
Related to Cell Wall Metabolism1
Ario de Marco2,
Patricia Guzzardi, and
Élisabeth Jamet*
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Unité
Propre de Recherche A0406, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67000 Strasbourg,
France
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ABSTRACT |
All of
the most important guaiacol-type peroxidase (POX) isoforms accumulated
in the culture medium of BY-2 tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum
L. cv Bright Yellow 2) cells have been isolated. Five basic and two
acidic isoforms were found. The four major isoforms (B2, B3, P1, and
P2), all strongly basic, have been purified to homogeneity and
partially sequenced. B2 and B3 are new isoforms showing high homology
to only one POX isolated so far. Amino acid sequencing and specific
activities indicated that basic isoPOXs constitute two pairs of
strictly related isoforms (P1/P2 and B2/B3). Their specific activities
measured in the presence of different substrates, as monolignols and
NAD(P)H, indicated possible specialized functions in cell wall
metabolism. Only P-type POXs were able to oxidize indoleacetic acid.
Variations in pH could play a regulatory role by changing the relative
contribution of different isoforms to total POX activity. Apart from
cell culture medium, polyclonal antibodies obtained against P1 and P2
detected P1 in roots and in lower parts of stems. Immunocytochemical
labeling indicated that P-type POXs were expressed in stem phloem and
in phloem and epidermal cells of roots.
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INTRODUCTION |
Peroxidases belong to a large family of enzymes able to oxidize
several different substrates in the presence of
H2O2. In higher plants the
number of isoforms may be extremely high, up to 40 genes corresponding
to isoperoxidases for each plant, and several other isoforms can be
generated by posttranscriptional modifications (Van Engelen et al.,
1991 ; Welinder et al., 1996 ). Classic plant POXs can be distinguished
by their nonspecific use of phenolic derivatives and their involvement
in polymerizing reactions (Eberhardt et al., 1993 ), whereas peroxidases
of different phylogenetic origin have a higher affinity for ascorbate
(Chen and Asada, 1989 ) or glutathione (Eshdat et al., 1997 ). The latter
are involved as scavengers in the control of active oxygen species or
in biomembrane repair (Asada, 1992 ). POXs also play a regulatory role
in the phytohormone metabolism, because they take part in the
catabolism of IAA (Gazaryan et al., 1996 ) and in ethylene biosynthesis
(Boyer and De Jaegher, 1986 ).
A peculiar feature of POXs is their apparent redundancy, i.e. several
isoforms can ensure the same reactions. At present, the available
information does not allow the prediction of the putative in vivo
function of any POX, given its amino acid sequence, or an understanding
of the reason for the high number of isoforms (Esnault and Chibbar,
1997 ), which apparently is not substrate specific, but often is tissue
and development specific (Criqui et al., 1992 ; Østergaard et al.,
1996 ; Kjærsgård et al., 1997 ). Yet, the speculation that it could be
possible to infer cell localization and function of isoPOXs from their
pI values has been questioned; for instance, the presence of both basic
and acidic extensin POXs in the cell culture medium has been reported
(Brownleader et al., 1995 ; Schnabelrauch et al., 1996 ), and both acidic
and basic POXs accumulate in protoplast culture medium (de Marco and
Roubelakis-Angelakis, 1997 ). Interesting insights concerning the
physiological roles of plant POX have been obtained by correlating the
induction of specific isoforms to particular external stimuli. By using
this approach, POXs that are involved in wound healing, NaCl-stress control, pathogen-defense reaction, and the hypersensitivity response have been characterized (Lagrimini, 1991 ; Bradley et al., 1992 ; Thordal-Christensen et al., 1992 ; Botella et al., 1994 ; Scott-Craig et
al., 1995 ). POXs are also specifically expressed during protoplast regeneration and cell development (Criqui et al., 1992 ; de Marco and
Roubelakis-Angelakis, 1996a ), and they probably play a key physiological role in cell wall assembly and in the control of cell
wall plasticity during cell elongation (Hoson et al., 1995 ). Both
proteins and monolignols are polymerized by POXs (Everdeen et al.,
1988 ; Eberhardt et al., 1993 ), which are also able to provide the
H2O2 necessary for the
reaction (Gross et al., 1977 ; de Marco and Roubelakis-Angelakis,
1996a ). The inhibition of POX activity prevented normal cell wall
reconstitution and protoplast division, even though the short-term
viability of the protoplasts was not altered (de Marco and
Roubelakis-Angelakis, 1996b ).
The difficulty of recognizing a relationship between POXs with
conserved sequences and specific physiological functions is mostly due
to the reactivities that isoPOXs show toward several potential
substrates, at least in in vitro conditions (Lagrimini et al., 1997 ).
On the other hand, to our knowledge, no systematic survey has been
attempted to determine the substrate specificity and in vivo reaction
conditions for each isoform. Cell-suspension culture is a suitable
source of POXs involved in cell wall metabolism (Buffard et al., 1990 ;
Schnabelrauch et al., 1996 ; Melo et al., 1997 ). BY-2 tobacco
(Nicotiana tabacum L. cv Bright Yellow 2) cells have been
chosen because they are commonly used in cell-cycle studies (Nagata et
al., 1992 ) and therefore several aspects of their metabolism are well
known. However, their POXs have been only partially investigated
(Narita et al., 1995 ), in spite of the possible regulatory effect of
cell wall reconstitution on the rate of cell division (Cooper et al.,
1994 ). In this paper we describe the isolation of the most
representative isoPOXs accumulated in the culture medium of tobacco
BY-2 cells and their biochemical characterization to determine whether
they make a temporal or substrate-specific contribution to cell
wall structural development.
The accession numbers for the sequences reported in this article are
P81512 (B2) and P81513 (B3).
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MATERIALS AND METHODS |
Plant, Cell, and Protoplast Material
Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv Samsun NN) plants were
grown in a greenhouse at 25°C. Protoplasts were isolated from
mesophyll after 4 h of maceration in hydrolytic solution (1%
cellulase R-10, 0.5% macerozyme R-10; Yakult Pharmaceutical, Tokyo,
Japan) and cultured as described by Koop and Schweiger (1985) . BY-2
tobacco (cv Bright Yellow 2) cells were cultured for 7 d in
Murashige and Skoog basal medium (Duchefa, Haarlem, The Netherlands),
pH 5.8, supplemented with 3% Suc, 1 mg/L thiamine, 100 mg/L
myoinositol, 200 mg/L
KH2PO4, and 0.2 mg/L 2,4-D
at 25°C under constant agitation. Cell viability was tested by
fluorescein diacetate.
Protein Extraction and Enzyme Assays
Leaf, stem, root, cell, and callus crude extracts were obtained by
grinding tissues with a mortar and pestle in the presence of 4 volumes
of extraction buffer (50 mM K-phosphate, pH 7.5, 1 mM ascorbate, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM DTT,
0.3% Triton X-100, and 0.8 M NaCl). Homogenate was
filtered through cheesecloth and centrifuged for 30 min at
12,000g, and supernatants were recovered. Protoplast and
derived-cell lysates were obtained by adding 3 volumes of extraction
buffer to pelleted protoplasts or cells in Eppendorf tubes and by
grinding the suspension with a minipestle. Spent media from protoplast
and cell cultures were concentrated by freeze drying and dialyzed
against 25 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, buffer. Crude extracts and lysates were washed and concentrated using Centricon-10 tubes (Amicon) and the same buffer. Resulting samples were exploited for native- and SDS-PAGE, western blotting, and determination of
control POX enzymic activity using o-dianisidine as a
substrate, according to the method of Church and Galston (1988) .
Purified isoPOXs were used to calculate specific activities in the
presence of IAA, NAD(P)H, and monolignols. One unit of activity is
defined as the amount of enzyme that oxidizes 1 µmol of substrate per minute in standard conditions. NADH and NADPH POX-dependent oxidation were followed in the spectrophotometer by decrease in
A340 at pH 7.5 and 25°C, using 0.2 mM
H2O2 and 0.15 mM NAD(P)H, and an extinction coefficient of 6.22 mM 1
cm 1 was used to calculate activity units.
Sinapyl and coniferyl alcohol oxidation were followed at
A272 and A264,
respectively, in the presence of 20 mM
K-phosphate buffer, pH 6.7, 0.3 mM monolignols, and 2 mM
H2O2, at 25°C; extinction
coefficient values of 8.09 and 13.09, respectively, were exploited
(Sterjiades et al., 1993 ). IAA oxidase activity was detected at
A261, according to Smith et al. (1982) , by
using 50 mM Na-acetate buffer, pH 5.0, 0.2 mM IAA. pH-dependent isoPOX specific activities
were measured in the range of 4.2 to 7.7, using 50 mM citrate
Na2HPO4 (pH 4.2-5.2), 50 mM Na-acetate (pH 5.7-6.7), or 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.2-7.7) buffers.
Purification of Isoperoxidases
Columns and substrates used for protein purification (Q and SP
Sepharose, Mono-Q, Mono-S, Phenyl-Superose, and Superdex 75) were from
Pharmacia Biotech. Seven-day tobacco BY-2 cell-culture medium was
recovered by filtration through nylon membrane and its volume reduced
by freeze drying. Most of the pectic polysaccharides were removed by
ultracentrifugation, and spent medium was dialyzed against ion-exchange
chromatography buffer (25 mM Na-acetate, pH 5.2, or 25 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, for SP and Q Sepharose columns, respectively) at 4°C, ultracentrifuged again to remove additional particulates, and loaded onto ion-exchange chromatography columns in
the cold room. Alternatively, filtered cells were washed with water and
resuspended in 0.5 M CaCl2.
Ion-extracted proteins were recovered by filtration and processed as
described above; no other isoPOXs were recovered, even though a
different ratio among isoforms was observed. Moreover, no additional
POX was found in NaCl-washed cells. Proteins were eluted with a NaCl
linear gradient of 0 to 250 mM; fractions corresponding to
successive peaks of POX activity were pooled separately, dialyzed
overnight against the corresponding chromatography buffers, passed
through a 0.22 µM protein filter (Millipore), and further
purified using fast-protein liquid chromatography at room temperature.
Samples separated by SP and Q Sepharose columns were loaded onto Mono-S
and Mono-Q columns, respectively, and eluted with linear gradients of
different NaCl concentrations (from 0 to 100 or 200 mM) to
maximize peak separation.
In an alternative protocol acidic isoPOXs were recovered from the SP
flow-through fraction; the sample was freeze-dried, resuspended in
water, dialyzed against Q medium, and loaded onto the Q column. This
method did not alter the qualitative recovery of acidic isoforms and
was exploited routinely to economize cell material. Fractions corresponding to single peaks of POX activity were combined and concentrated, and ammonium sulfate was added to reach a final concentration of 1.2 M (POX B1, B2, B3, and A1) or 1.8 M (POX P1 and P2). Samples were loaded onto the
Phenyl-Superose column and eluted with a descending gradient of 1.2 to
0 M or 1.8 to 0 M ammonium sulfate,
respectively. POX fractions were washed, buffer exchanged, concentrated
using Centricon-10 tubes (Amicon) and 25 mM Tris-HCl, pH
6.8, and 150 mM NaCl buffer. Sample solution (200 µL) was
loaded onto a Superdex 75 column for a final step of purification and
Mr determination. Fractions corresponding to a POX peak were pooled and stored at 20°C.
IEF-, Native-, and SDS-PAGE
Ampholine carrier ampholytes, an IEF calibration kit, and SDS-PAGE
molecular-mass standards were purchased from Pharmacia Biotech Europe.
IEF-PAGE was run as described by Robertson et al. (1987) over a pH
range of 3.5 to 10.0. Native- and SDS-PAGE (10% when not indicated
otherwise) were run according to the method of Laemmli (1970) . SDS gels
were silver stained (Eschenbruck and Bürch, 1982 ), and POXs were
visualized in native and IEF gels using chloro-1-naphthol (Lagrimini
and Rothstein, 1987 ). Glycoproteins were stained by immersion of gels
in Schiff's reagent (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) after periodic
oxidation, according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Western Blotting
SDS-PAGE was run in standard conditions, and gels were removed,
equilibrated in transfer buffer (25 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, 192 mM Gly, and 15% methanol) for 10 min, and mounted in a
transblotting sandwich using an Immobilon-P membrane (Millipore). After
electrotransfer (45 min at 400 mA), membranes were stained with Ponceau
S solution (Serva, Heidelberg, Germany) for protein detection.
Immunodetection was performed according to the method of Geoffroy et
al. (1990) .
Protein Microsequencing
Purified proteins were run in standard conditions on denaturing
gels, equilibrated in 10 mM
3-cyclohexylamino-1-propanesulfonic acid, pH 11.0, 10% methanol
buffer, and electroblotted onto a Problott membrane (Perkin-Elmer
Applied Biosystems, Courtaboeuf, France) for 30 min at 50 V, at room
temperature. The membrane was washed and stained with Coomassie Blue
R-250 (Merck), and protein bands were recovered for N-terminal
sequencing, according to the method of Heitz et al. (1994) . Partial
proteolysis was used to sequence N-terminal blocked proteins. Purified
proteins (30-50 µg) were run on denaturing gels and stained in
Coomassie Blue R-250, and bands corresponding to the proteins were cut, soaked in 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 6.8, 1 mM EDTA,
and 0.1% SDS, and loaded into a well of a polyacrylamide denaturing
gel. Into the same well was deposited 2 to 5 µg of endoproteinase
Glu-C (Boehringer Mannheim) dissolved in the equilibration buffer plus
10% glycerol. The migration front was allowed to reach the interface
between stacking and running (15%) gels by using standard PAGE
conditions before the power was switched off. After 30 min, the
products of the proteolysis reaction were separated in the running gel and transferred onto a Problott membrane, as described above. Microsequencing of peptides was performed as described by Geoffroy et
al. (1990) .
Antibody Preparation
A P1/P2 isoPOX mixture was dialyzed against 0.9% NaCl.
Two-hundred micrograms of protein was dissolved in a final volume of 300 µL and combined with an equal volume of Freund's complete adjuvant, and the emulsion was injected subcutaneously into a rabbit.
Eighty micrograms of protein was combined with Freund's incomplete
adjuvant and injected intramuscularly three times (every 2 weeks for 6 weeks) to booster the antibody reaction. IgG was purified from sera by
chromatography, exploiting a Fractogel EMD TA column (Merck), and
stored with 20% glycerol at 20°C.
Immunocytolocalization
Tissues were fixed and subsequently embedded in paraffin and
10-µm-thick cuts were performed. After deparaffination and
dehydration, samples were washed in PBS in the presence of 0.05%
Triton X-100 and 1% BSA. Surfaces were saturated using the same buffer
plus 5% goat serum (Boehringer Mannheim) and incubated at 4°C
overnight in PBS, 0.01% Triton X-100, 1% BSA, and primary antibodies
diluted 1:1000. Samples were washed in the same buffer, incubated for 1 h at room temperature in the presence of anti-rabbit alkaline phosphatase-conjugated secondary antibodies (1:1000 in PBS; Boehringer Mannheim), washed in PBS, and equilibrated with 100 mM
Tris-HCl, pH 8.2. Color reaction was developed using Fast Red (Sigma)
and blocked by 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, 1 mM
EDTA. Finally, samples were washed in water and mounted in glycerol.
Controls had no antibodies or preimmune serum added instead of primary
antibodies. Callose in cell walls of phloem cells was visualized by
fluorescence with decolorized aniline blue according to the method of
Currier and Strugger (1956) .
Other Methods
Protein concentration was determined by the Bio-Rad protein assay
kit using BSA as a protein standard. Sequence data were analyzed using
the FASTA search service (Pearson and Lipman, 1988 ) and the Genetics
Computer Group (Madison, WI) package programs (Devereux et al., 1984 ).
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RESULTS |
Purification of Tobacco IsoPOXs
We chose to work with isoforms accumulated in BY-2 cell-suspension
culture medium and to study their role in cell wall metabolism. Preliminary tests established that 7-d-old cultures gave the highest yield of POXs and that POX specific activity increased 4-fold between d
2 and 7 of cell culture, even though the pattern of expression of the
isoforms did not change (data not shown). The standard protocol of
purification for the different isoPOXs is described in Figure
1. Two steps of centrifugation, before
and after dialysis against ion-exchange chromatography buffer, were necessary to eliminate most of the abundant polysaccharides present in
the filtrate that resulted from the freeze-drying concentration of the
medium. About 95% of POX activity preferentially bound to a cation
exchanger (SP Sepharose column), whereas the recovery of Q
Sepharose-bound fractions (anion exchanger) was very low, regardless of
the protocol (standard or alternative) used for their
purification (see ``Materials and Methods''). This indicates that
very basic isoforms were predominant in the cell-suspension culture
medium (Table I). The two most important
acidic isoforms, A1 and A2, were purified according to the protocol
described in Figure 1. They had pI values of 3.9 (A1) and 4.5 (A2),
respectively (Fig. 2A), and very
different mobility in native gel (Fig. 2B). Even though A2 showed
stronger activity than A1 using chloro-1-naphthol in native gels loaded with filtered medium (Fig. 2A), the scarce amount obtained after the
Mono-Q elution step prevented any further purification. In contrast,
enough A1 was available to purify an isoform of 45 kD to homogeneity
(Table II; Fig.
3A).

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| Figure 1.
Protocol of purification for peroxidase isoforms
recovered from 7-d spent medium of tobacco BY-2 cell-suspension
culture. FPLC, Fast-protein liquid chromatography.
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Table I.
Preliminary steps of purification of tobacco POXs
from BY-2 cell-suspension culture medium
Here the steps of concentration and separation between acidic (Q-bound
proteins) and basic (SP-bound proteins) isoPOXs are described. POX
activity was measured using o-dianisidine as a substrate, as
described in ``Materials and Methods''.
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| Figure 2.
POX isoforms identified in IEF- and native-PAGE.
IEF-PAGE (A) and native-PAGE (B) gels were loaded with filtrate medium
of 7-d tobacco BY-2 cell-suspension culture (lanes M) and purified
fractions corresponding to POX acidic isoforms A1 and A2. The
amounts of proteins loaded onto the IEF-PAGE gels were 1 µg (lane M)
and 250 ng (lanes A1 and A2), and the amounts loaded onto the
native-PAGE gels were 1 µg (lane M), 250 ng (lane A1), and 150 ng
(lane A2). Peroxidase activity was revealed using chloro-1-naphthol as
a substrate.
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Table II.
Purification of tobacco POXs from BY-2
cell-suspension culture medium: fast-protein liquid chromatography
steps
NaCl concentrations corresponding to peaks of elution of each isoPOX
are indicated, together with specific activities using
o-dianisidine as a substrate, as described in ``Materials and Methods''.
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| Figure 3.
Molecular masses and glycosylation state of
purified POX isoforms. A, Two-hundred nanograms of purified isoPOXs A1,
B1, B2, B3, P2, and P1 was visualized by silver staining after
SDS-PAGE. Molecular masses of protein standards are indicated in
kilodaltons. B, One microgram of partially purified B3, B1, and P2
isoPOXs was stained for their carbohydrate content after SDS-PAGE. Note
that no band is visible in lane B1 at the expected position of 33.5 kD.
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For basic isoforms, two peaks of activity could be resolved after
cation-exchange chromatography on a SP Sepharose column. They
corresponded to peak I and peaks II/III reported previously by Narita
et al. (1995) . Their contributions to the total POX activity were about
50% and 45%, respectively. The first peak of activity corresponded to
a single band of about 33 kD in a silver-stained gel. It was not
characterized further by Narita et al. (1995) , probably because it
contained a mixture of several proteins, as indicated by
microsequencing data. Hence, fractions eluted from the SP Sepharose
column that corresponded to this POX peak were recovered (B-type POXs),
dialyzed, and loaded separately onto the Mono-S column. Such a protocol
allowed resolution of five different peaks inside the original main
peak, three of which showed POX activity: isoforms B1, B2, and B3
(Table II). Hydrophobic affinity and gel filtration allowed us to
purify these isoPOXs to homogeneity (Fig. 3A). B1 had a molecular mass
of 33.5 kD, whereas B2 and B3 had a molecular mass of 33 kD (Table II).
B2 was the only isoform able to enter an IEF gel, because it had a pI
of 9.7 (Fig. 2A). In contrast to B2 and B3, B1 was a minor isoform and
its amount was not sufficient for microsequencing. It was the only
basic isoPOX that showed no staining after treatment with Schiff's
reagent (Fig. 3B), indicating that its degree of glycosylation was
lower than that of B- and P-type isoPOXs or that it was not
glycosylated. As shown previously (Narita et al., 1995 ), two other
basic isoPOXs could be isolated from the second peak resulting from SP
Sepharose elution (P-type POXs) and purified (Fig. 1). The molecular
masses of P1 and P2 were 42 and 40 kD, respectively, as calculated from
gel filtration, and 40 and 38 kD, respectively, after comparison with
Mr standards on SDS gels (Table II; Fig.
3A).
Microsequencing of IsoPOXs B2, B3, P1, and P2
B2, B3, and A1 were N blocked; this feature is quite frequent in
POXs, due to a cyclization of a Gln in position 1 to pyroglutamate (Kjærsgård et al., 1997 ). B2 and B3 were partially digested to obtain
peptides that could be sequenced. Sequences of 83 and 60 amino acids
located at their N and C termini, respectively, were determined for
each isoPOX, which represent almost one-half of the length of a common
POX (Fig. 4). The two isoforms were very similar; they differed in only 3 amino acids over the available sequence. B2 and B3 have not been described and were very close to a
POX isolated from peanut cell-culture medium (Buffard et al., 1990 ):
68% identity and 84% similarity in the N-terminal region; 77%
identity and 92% similarity in the C-terminal region (Fig. 4). B2 and
B3 showed less identity to other basic POXs, such as wheat POX, P1/P2,
Arabidopsis, and horseradish POXs (about 50% identity and 70%
similarity in the N-terminal region; about 40% identity and between
51% and 59% similarity in the C-terminal region). P1 and P2 were
N-terminal microsequenced for 48 and 42 amino acids, respectively. They
showed perfect homology to the predicted amino acid sequences
corresponding to the previously reported clones D42064 and D42065
(Narita et al., 1995 ), except that they contained an additional Val in
position 23 of the mature protein that was not reported by Narita et
al. (1995) .

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| Figure 4.
Amino acid sequence comparison between newly
identified B2 and B3 tobacco POXs and other basic plant POXs. Alignment
of the two tobacco POXs B2 and B3 is with peanut PCN2 (Buffard et al.,
1990 ), wheat (Hertig et al., 1991 ), tobacco P1 (Narita et al., 1995 ;
this work), Arabidopsis ATPEa (Intapruk et al., 1991 ), and horseradish
(Fujiyama et al., 1988 ) POXs. Identical amino acids are indicated by
dots, and gaps introduced to improve alignment and are indicated by
dashes. Boxed regions correspond to conserved regions around His
residues (I and III) and around helix D, according to the method of
Buffard et al. (1990) . Conserved His (H) and Cys (C) residues are
indicated below POX sequences, as is the putative substrate-binding
site (R and Y). Regions conserved in PCN2, B2, and B3 are underlined
with asterisks. The accession numbers for the amino acid sequences of
tobacco POXs B2 and B3 are P81512 and P81513, respectively.
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The two newly characterized POXs, B2 and B3, showed conservation of
amino acids essential for either catalytic activity or tertiary
structure (Fig. 4): Cys and His residues, which belong to the active
site; the acid-base catalysis region, including the functional His; and
helix D according to Buffard et al. (1990) , which seems to be important
for tertiary structure (Welinder, 1985 ). Sequence comparison between
B2, B3, and the PCN2 POX isolated from peanut (Buffard et al., 1990 )
showed remarkable homology in sequences usually not conserved among
POXs, especially in the C-terminal region. A peculiar feature of B2/B3
is the presence of five Gly residues between positions 273 and 287, which may confer an extremely high flexibility on their spatial
structures (Fig. 4).
pH Dependence of IsoPOX Activity
The activities of the four major basic isoPOXs (B2, B3, P1, and
P2) and that of A1 were measured while varying the pH of the buffer in
the reaction mixture from 4.2 to 7.7. B2/B3 isoPOXs and A1 had a
maximum of activity at pH 4.7, and A1 conserved a low activity at
slightly alkaline pH values (Fig. 5).
P1/P2 showed a wider range of suitable pH values than B2/B3 and A1
POXs, with a maximum of activity at pH 5.2.

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| Figure 5.
pH-dependent activity of A1 ( ), B-type ( ),
and P-type ( ) POXs. Specific activities were measured as described
in ``Materials and Methods''. Results are expressed as a percentage
of maximum activity arbitrarily fixed to 100 for each type of
peroxidase. Values reported are the average of three independent
experiments, and relative SD values are not higher than
7%.
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Substrate Specificity of IsoPOXs in Vitro
Three types of substrates were tested: (a) NADP and NADPH, because
POXs can trigger the nonenzymic production of
H2O2 in the presence of
NAD(P)H, which is later used as a substrate for the oxidation of
phenolic groups (Halliwell, 1978 ); (b) monolignols, such as coniferyl
and sinapyl alcohol, which are polymerized in secondary cell walls
(Eberhardt et al., 1993 ); and (c) IAA, which POXs may catabolize in
vivo (Gazaryan et al., 1996 ). The activity of B1 was barely detectable
and then only in the presence of monolignols (Table
III). The other purified POXs could use
both NAD(P)H and monolignols as the substrates. A1 had the highest
specific activity with both NAD(P)H and monolignols compared with B-
and P-type isoPOXs (Table III). A fraction enriched in A2 and
containing negligible contamination due to other POXs (Fig. 2) showed
relatively low affinity for NAD(P)H, but a higher specific activity
with monolignols than other isoPOXs (data not shown). P-type isoPOXs
showed higher affinity for NADPH than B-type isoPOXs, which, in
contrast, could use monolignols with more elevated efficiency than
P-type isoPOXs (Table III). Furthermore, P-type isoPOXs were the only
ones that possessed IAA oxidase activity (Table III).
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Table III.
Specific activities of tobacco POXs purified from
BY-2 cell-suspension culture medium in the presence of different
substrates
The specific activities of purified POXs A1, B1, B2, B3, P1, and P2
were measured in vitro as described in ``Materials and Methods''.
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Immunodetection Using Polyclonal Antibodies against P1 and P2
A mixture of the strictly related isoPOXs P1 and P2 was used as
antigen for the production of polyclonal antibodies. Protein extracts
from different plant organs and from BY2 cells were analyzed by western
blotting. Specific signals corresponding to P1 could be detected in the
lower parts of stems, both nodes and internodes, as well as in roots
(Fig. 6, lanes LN, LI, and R). No signal
could be detected in leaves and in the upper parts of stems (Fig. 6, lanes YL, ML, UN, and UI). Finally, weak signals corresponding to P1
and P2 appeared in the cell extract, whereas very strong signals were
detected in the spent medium (Fig. 6, lanes C and M). It should be
noted that the amount of protein loaded in lane M was only one-tenth of
that loaded in the other lanes. P2 was also detected in extracts from
BY2 calli grown on solid medium, whereas only a faint signal
corresponding to P1 appeared (data not shown). The other weak signals
detected in the different samples may correspond to other POXs sharing
common epitopes with P-type isoPOXs. Regenerating protoplasts isolated
from tobacco leaves were used to determine if P-type isoPOXs
accumulated at specific times during culture. Separate aliquots of both
protoplasts and their corresponding media were recovered daily during
the 1st week of culture and used for western blotting, but no protein was recognized by anti-P-type antibodies (data not shown). In conclusion, apart from BY2 cells and culture medium, the presence of
the P1 protein was detected in roots and in stems, whereas the P2
protein could not be found.

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| Figure 6.
Detection of P-type isoPOXs in extracts of
different plant organs and BY-2 cells and in cell-suspension culture
medium. Soluble proteins were extracted from young leaves (lane YL),
mature leaves (lane ML), lower stem nodes (lane LN), upper stem nodes
(lane UN), lower stem internodes (lane LI), upper stem internodes (lane
UI), roots (lane R), and 7-d BY-2 cells (lane C). Ten micrograms of
these extracts was analyzed by western blotting together with an
aliquot of cell-suspension culture medium (lane M) containing 1.2 µg
of protein. Polyclonal antibodies raised against P-type isoPOXs were
used; the asterisks and circles indicate the positions of signals
corresponding to P1 and P2, respectively. The control with preimmune
serum did not show any signal.
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Immunocytolocalization experiments were then performed on root and stem
sections (Fig. 7). In roots a signal was
detected in epidermal cells and in phloem cells surrounding xylem
sieves (Fig. 7, A and B). In stems a signal was detected in both
internal and external phloem (Fig. 7, E and F). Staining of root and
stem sections with aniline blue showed the presence of callose in the walls of the groups of cells labeled by the antibodies (Fig. 7, compare
C and D, and G and H). This confirmed that these cells were phloem
cells, either companion cells or phloem sieves. Results from the
western blotting suggest that these signals probably reveal the
presence of P1 and/or of related peroxidases.

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| Figure 7.
Immunocytolocalization assays using anti-P-type
POX antibodies. A, Root longitudinal section; B, close-up of root
longitudinal section; C, close-up of transversal root section; D, same
as C but stained with aniline blue; E, stem transversal section; F,
close-up of stem section shown in E; G, close-up of stem transversal
section; and H, same as G but stained with aniline blue. ec, Epidermal
cells; ep, external phloem; ip, internal phloem; p, phloem; and x,
xylem. Arrows indicate the localization of walls visualized by
fluorescence with aniline blue.
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DISCUSSION |
Cell wall metabolism is very important for protoplast and cell
development, and POXs are considered to play a primary role in
polymerizing structural elements and regulating cell wall elasticity during cell elongation (Hoson et al., 1995 ). POX specific activity increases several times in culture media of both regenerating protoplasts (de Marco and Roubelakis-Angelakis, 1997 ) and
cell-suspension cultures (this work). In this paper we have described
the purification to homogeneity and biochemical characterization of six
isoPOXs and the partial purification of another one from the spent
medium of tobacco BY-2-cultured cells. These represent all of the most important POXs detectable in the medium. The data concerning amino acid
sequences and specific activities indicate that two pairs of strictly
related basic isoforms (P1/P2 and B2/B3) are present, representing more
than 95% of the total POX activity. In particular, B2 and B3 have not
been described previously and have a quite peculiar sequence, for which
a high homology has been found only to a POX recovered from peanut
culture medium (Buffard et al., 1990 ; Breda et al., 1993 ). P1 and P2
were isolated previously (Narita et al., 1995 ), but scant biochemical
information was available from that study. The existence of two very
similar isoforms for P- and B-type isoPOXs might be explained by the
phylogenesis of N. tabacum, which is an amphidiploid
originating from an interspecific hybridization between Nicotiana
sylvestris and Nicotiana tomentosiformis (Goodspeed,
1954 ). We also propose that the basic isoform B1, which has a much
lower degree of glycosylation than B- and P-type isoPOXs, is a
transient degradation product of another POX that is rapidly digested
after loss of the carbohydrate protection (Marañon and van
Huystee, 1994 ). In fact, it does not accumulate in the medium and its
activity is very low and detectable only with substrates of simple
structure. This may be due to partial unfolding of the protein, which
may cause loss of specialized activity, as suggested for the pI-4.6
extensin peroxidase upon storage (Schnabelrauch et al., 1996 ). It is
interesting that its Mr corresponds to the
Mr of P1 apoprotein. Electrophoretic
mobility and pI values show an evident heterogeneity between the two
acidic isoPOXs, but their scarcity and the blocking of the N terminus did not allow sequencing. A1 has been characterized biochemically, whereas for A2 it was only possible to measure a higher affinity for
monolignols than for the other substrates with respect to P-type
isoPOXs.
To date, only limited evidence has accumulated to suggest that POXs can
discriminate among classes of potential substrates (Brisson et al.,
1994 ; Schnabelrauch et al., 1996 ), and the simple observation of an
isoPOX pattern of expression under the action of different factors is
not sufficient to suggest specific physiological roles for any POX. In
fact, different stimuli believed to influence cell wall metabolism
induce different sets of isoPOXs. To our knowledge, this is the first
systematic survey in which substrate and pH specificities were
recognizable for isoPOXs expressed under a specific condition. Except
for B1, the isolated POXs were able to use both NAD(P)H and monolignols
as the substrates in vitro, but a certain specificity and a different
affinity were recognizable. A1 showed the highest specific activities.
P-type isoPOXs had higher affinity for NADPH than for monolignols,
compared with B-type isoPOXs, and were the only isoforms able to
oxidize IAA. It was already shown that POXs are able to use NAD(P)H to
produce H2O2 (Halliwell,
1978 ), the limiting cosubstrate in the polymerizing activity, and can
control cell elongation by modulating the IAA concentration. In fact,
auxin stimulates cell wall glycosidases responsible for cell wall
carbohydrate breakdown (Hoson et al., 1995 ) and induces cell swelling
by stimulating monovalent cation uptake (Keller and Van Volkenburgh,
1996). Even though pH optima were similar among isoPOXs, P-type isoPOXs
had almost a 50% higher specific activity than B-type isoPOXs and A1
at pH 5.7 (the pH value of culture medium), and only A1 retained low
activity at neutral pH values. Therefore, small variations in pH values
could represent efficient regulatory means in vivo to shift optimal conditions from one POX to another and thereby favor the different processes connected to cell wall metabolism and preferentially catalyzed by specialized isoPOXs.
Our results also suggest that different isoPOXs could ensure
specialized activities related to specific steps in cell wall metabolism. In a previous work (Narita et al., 1995 ), an attempt was
made to correlate isoPOX expression and successive steps of cell wall
metabolism during cell culture, but the cultured cells were not
synchronized and, therefore, the results explained the relative
accumulation of isoPOXs rather than a strict relationship with specific
phases of cell wall reconstitution. Protoplasts are a more homogeneous
material than cells, and we tried to determine if P-type POXs were
expressed during specific steps of the regeneration of the cell wall
around protoplasts. Unfortunately, no protein was recognized by
antibodies in protoplast extracts and media recovered daily during the
1st week of culture. Actually, protoplasts, cells, and their
corresponding culture media shared only a few of the POXs visualized in
IEF gels (data not shown). Cultured cells probably need different POXs
to ensure cell division and elongation compared with protoplasts, which
have to completely reconstitute cell wall structure.
POXs may be regulated during development or in response to wounding or
pathogen attack (Mohan et al., 1993 ; Intapruk et al., 1994 ; Klotz et
al., 1998 ). Immunotests performed with extracts from different plant
tissues confirmed that P-type isoPOXs are preferentially expressed in
culture media, but also showed that P1 and/or POXs related to the P
type are expressed in roots and in the lower parts of stems. The
immunocytolocalizations showed that POXs related to the P type
accumulate in the phloem and epidermal root cells, as well as in the
internal and external phloem of stems. This localization, together with
results from the analysis of substrate specificity in vitro detailed
above, suggest that these enzymes are probably not involved in
lignification. The P-type isoPOXs, rather, may contribute to
strengthening of the walls of phloem and epidermal cells. This type of
tissue-specific expression differs from that described previously for
other POX genes. The tomato anionic peroxidase gene (tap1)
was shown to be expressed in the epidermis and trichomes in the aerial
parts of plants, as well as in stem nodes at the level of leaf traces (Mohan et al., 1993 ). The tobacco anionic peroxidase was expressed in
epidermis and trichomes at nearly all developmental stages, as well as
in ground tissues and parenchyma cells associated with vascular tissues
(Klotz et al., 1998 ). The Arabidopsis prxCa gene was found
to be expressed in all organs, and especially in root xylem, whereas
the prxEa gene encoding a cationic peroxidase was expressed
in phloem and in cortical root cells (Intapruk et al., 1994 ). Together,
these results suggest that each type of POX is expressed in a specific
way and plays a particular role during development. However, POX
antisense transformed plants did not show apparent morphological
differences (Sherf et al., 1993 ; Lagrimini et al., 1997 ), and these
results have been explained by suggesting that a higher activity/amount
of nonspecialized POX was able to recover the lost specialized enzymic
contribution.
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FOOTNOTES |
1
This work was supported by the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique, by a fellowship from the Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome to A.d.M., and by a grant from the
Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale de la Recherche et de
la Technologie to P.G.
2
Present address: Novartis, Crop Protection,
WRO-1060, 4002 Basel, Switzerland.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail elisabeth.jamet{at}ibmp-ulp.u-strasbg.fr;
fax 33-388-614442.
Received December 21, 1998;
accepted March 15, 1999.
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ABBREVIATIONS |
Abbreviation:
POX, guaiacol-type peroxidase.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
The authors thank Dr. Roberte Bronner for her assistance in
microscopy, Pierrette Geoffroy for her collaboration with fast-protein liquid chromatography, and Monique Le Ret for microsequencing of
proteins.
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