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Published on November 7, 2002; 10.1104/pp.008243
Received May 9, 2002
Returned for revision August 13, 2002
Accepted August 21, 2002
Control of Demand-Driven Biosynthesis of Glutathione in Green Arabidopsis Suspension Culture Cells
Andreas J. Meyer * and Mark D. Fricker
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom
* Corresponding author; email: Andreas.Meyer{at}sonne.uni-freiburg.de.
We have investigated what limits demand-driven de novo glutathione (GSH) biosynthesis in green Arabidopsis suspension culture cells. GSH is the most abundant low-molecular weight thiol in most plants and can be quantified using monochlorobimane to fluorescently label GSH in live cells. Progress curves for labeling reached a plateau as all the cytoplasmic GSH was conjugated. In the presence of excess monochlorobimane, a second, almost linear phase of labeling was observed, after a lag of 2 to 3 h, that was then maintained for an extended period. The increase in fluorescence was shown to be because of de novo GSH biosynthesis by high-performance liquid chromatography analysis and was eliminated by DL-buthionine-[S,R]-sulfoximine, a specific inhibitor of GSH biosynthesis, or reduced by inhibitors of transcription and translation. The rate of GSH biosynthesis during the linear phase was 8.9 ± 1.4 nmol g fresh weight-1 min-1 and was not affected by addition of glutamate, glycine, or cysteine, the immediate precursors needed for GSH biosynthesis. Likewise, the synthesis rate was not affected by pretreatment with aminotriazole, menadione, jasmonic acid, or cadmium, all of which cause oxidative stress and up-regulate expression of GSH biosynthetic genes. The lag phase was markedly reduced by aminotriazole and menadione and marginally by jasmonic acid, suggesting the system was primed to react faster after mild stress. In contrast to the other feeding experiments, exclusion of SO42- from the medium abolished the second phase completely. This suggests demand-driven GSH biosynthesis is directly coupled to uptake of SO42- and that the linear increase in fluorescence reflects flux through the entire SO42- assimilation pathway.
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