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Title: Selective production of sealed plasma membrane vesicles from red beet (Beta vulgaris L. ) storage tissue

Abstract

Modification of our previous procedure for the isolation of microsomal membrane vesicles from red beet (Beta vulgaris L.) storage tissue allowed the recovery of sealed membrane vesicles displaying proton transport activity sensitive to both nitrate and orthovanadate. In the absence of a high salt concentration in the homogenization medium, contributions of nitrate-sensitive (tonoplast) and vanadate-sensitive (plasma membrane) proton transport were roughly equal. The addition of 0.25 M KCl to the homogenization medium increased the relative amount of nitrate-inhibited proton transport activity while the addition of 0.25 M KI resulted in proton pumping vesicles displaying inhibition by vanadate but stimulation by nitrate. These effects appeared to result from selective sealing of either plasma membrane or tonoplast membrane vesicles during homogenization in the presence of the two salts. Following centrifugation on linear sucrose gradients it was shown that the nitrate-sensitive, proton-transporting vesicles banded at low density and comigrated with nitrate-sensitive ATPase activity while the vanadate-sensitive, proton-transporting vesicles banded at a much higher density and comigrated with vanadate-sensitive ATPase. The properties of the vanadate-sensitive proton pumping vesicles were further characterized in microsomal membrane fractions produced by homogenization in the presence of 0.25 M KI and centrifugation on discontinuous sucrose density gradients. Proton transportmore » was substrate specific for ATP, displayed a sharp pH optimum at 6.5, and was insensitive to azide but inhibited by N'-N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, diethylstilbestrol, and fluoride. The Km of proton transport for Mg:ATP was 0.67 mM and the K0.5 for vanadate inhibition was at about 50 microM. These properties are identical to those displayed by the plasma membrane ATPase and confirm a plasma membrane origin for the vesicles.« less

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Research Org.:
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
OSTI Identifier:
6351278
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Arch. Biochem. Biophys.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; BEETS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NITRATES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; VANADIUM; ATP; CELL MEMBRANES; ION CHANNELING; MICROSOMES; PLANTS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDES; POTASSIUM IODIDES; PROTONS; SODIUM IODIDES; VEGETABLES; ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; BARYONS; CELL CONSTITUENTS; CHANNELING; CHLORIDES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; FERMIONS; FOOD; HADRONS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC PHOSPHORS; IODIDES; IODINE COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANES; METALS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUCLEONS; NUCLEOTIDES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANOIDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; 560300* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology; 550200 - Biochemistry

Citation Formats

Giannini, J L, Gildensoph, L H, and Briskin, D P. Selective production of sealed plasma membrane vesicles from red beet (Beta vulgaris L. ) storage tissue. United States: N. p., 1987. Web. doi:10.1016/0003-9861(87)90145-7.
Giannini, J L, Gildensoph, L H, & Briskin, D P. Selective production of sealed plasma membrane vesicles from red beet (Beta vulgaris L. ) storage tissue. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-9861(87)90145-7
Giannini, J L, Gildensoph, L H, and Briskin, D P. 1987. "Selective production of sealed plasma membrane vesicles from red beet (Beta vulgaris L. ) storage tissue". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-9861(87)90145-7.
@article{osti_6351278,
title = {Selective production of sealed plasma membrane vesicles from red beet (Beta vulgaris L. ) storage tissue},
author = {Giannini, J L and Gildensoph, L H and Briskin, D P},
abstractNote = {Modification of our previous procedure for the isolation of microsomal membrane vesicles from red beet (Beta vulgaris L.) storage tissue allowed the recovery of sealed membrane vesicles displaying proton transport activity sensitive to both nitrate and orthovanadate. In the absence of a high salt concentration in the homogenization medium, contributions of nitrate-sensitive (tonoplast) and vanadate-sensitive (plasma membrane) proton transport were roughly equal. The addition of 0.25 M KCl to the homogenization medium increased the relative amount of nitrate-inhibited proton transport activity while the addition of 0.25 M KI resulted in proton pumping vesicles displaying inhibition by vanadate but stimulation by nitrate. These effects appeared to result from selective sealing of either plasma membrane or tonoplast membrane vesicles during homogenization in the presence of the two salts. Following centrifugation on linear sucrose gradients it was shown that the nitrate-sensitive, proton-transporting vesicles banded at low density and comigrated with nitrate-sensitive ATPase activity while the vanadate-sensitive, proton-transporting vesicles banded at a much higher density and comigrated with vanadate-sensitive ATPase. The properties of the vanadate-sensitive proton pumping vesicles were further characterized in microsomal membrane fractions produced by homogenization in the presence of 0.25 M KI and centrifugation on discontinuous sucrose density gradients. Proton transport was substrate specific for ATP, displayed a sharp pH optimum at 6.5, and was insensitive to azide but inhibited by N'-N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, diethylstilbestrol, and fluoride. The Km of proton transport for Mg:ATP was 0.67 mM and the K0.5 for vanadate inhibition was at about 50 microM. These properties are identical to those displayed by the plasma membrane ATPase and confirm a plasma membrane origin for the vesicles.},
doi = {10.1016/0003-9861(87)90145-7},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6351278}, journal = {Arch. Biochem. Biophys.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987},
month = {Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987}
}