Abstract
Antisera raised against l-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), and a cationic cell-wall peroxidase, which had all been purified from suspension-cultured cells of French bean, have been used to carry out immunogold localisations in the growing plant. Immunoglobulin-G fractions were prepared from each antiserum and used to study the distribution of the enzymes in differentiating and wounded hypocotyls by immunogold techniques and visualisation by both light and electron microscopy. Following silver enhancement to amplify the signal, proteins were detected by confocal microscopy in both developing (pre-xylem/ phloem) and later metaxylem stelar tissue. l-Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and C4H also accumulated in cells adjacent to metaxylem, presumably involved in maintaining a supply of phenylpropanoid precursors to the enucleated xylem for further lignin synthesis. In these cells, PAL subunits were cytosolic although some were associated with endomembrane. Cinnamate-4-hydroxylase was wholly associated with membrane and particularly high concentrations were found in the Golgi bodies. The cationic peroxidase accumulated in xylem at sites of secondary thickening and in the middle lamella. The three proteins are also involved in defensive lignification. Thus when visualised by light microscopy, PAL and C4H were seen to accumulate to high levels throughout the cell types in wound sites and especially in the epidermal cells. An even more intense general distribution was found upon hyperinduction of wounded cells with α-aminooxy-β-phenylpropionic acid. At the subcellular level, PAL was found to be localised in the cytosol in the wounded cells; however, because of the loss of membrane through mechanical damage, association with membrane structures, particularly endoplasmic reticulum, in unwounded cells is not entirely ruled out. Cinnamate-4-hydroxylase was associated with membranes when these were preserved. In wounded tissue, the peroxidase was found at the growing edges of tylose-like structures in the vascular xylem.
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Abbreviations
- AOPP:
-
α-aminooxy-β-phenylpropionic acid
- C4H:
-
cinnamic acid-4-hydroxylase
- CHS:
-
chalcone synthase
- GRP:
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glycine-rich glycoprotein
- HRGP:
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hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein
- Ig:
-
immunoglobulin
- PAL:
-
phenylalanine ammonia-lyase
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G.P.B. thanks the Agicultural and Food Research Council for support.
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Smith, C.G., Rodgers, M.W., Zimmerlin, A. et al. Tissue and subcellular immunolocalisation of enzymes of lignin synthesis in differentiating and wounded hypocotyl tissue of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Planta 192, 155–164 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00194448
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