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Cell-suspension cultures of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) can be used as a very sensitive and rapidly responding physiological system for monitoring extracellular signals. Elicitors effect the activation of the genes that code for a set of enzymes synthesizing stilbenes. Within 2–6 h after administering micromolar, concentrations of orthovanadate to the suspended cells, the enzyme activities of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, stilbene synthase, and cinnamate 4-hydroxylase increased 10-to 100-fold. The transient time course of induction, and the quality and quantity of gene expression found with vanadate as artificial elicitor were very similar to those observed after biotic stress generated by fungal cell walls. The dose-response of vanadate as an elicitor of gene expression in intact cells matched precisely its inhibitory effect on the ATPase activity of isolated plasma membrane. By concentrating, on the profiles of cinnamate 4-hydroxylase activity, we observed differences between the effects elicited by fungal cell wall or vanadate when different stages of cell development were analyzed. Unlike the fungal elicitor, vanadate did not induce the hydroxylase activity when cells at the stationary phase of the cell cycle were used. This lack of response was not the result of a decrease in membrane biosynthesis. The finding, that the effects of vanadate and fungal elicitor are additive indicates that vanadate does not interfere negatively with the perception of the biotic signal but rather addresses the same intracellular intermediate of the signalling process. We hypothesize that membrane potentials created or modulated by ATPases may be intermediates in the signal chain, starting with the recognition process at the plasma membrane and eventually leading to the production of stilbenes as low-molecular-weight plant-defence products.
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- ER:
-
endoplasmic reticulum
- Tris:
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2-amino-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol
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Steffens, M., Ettl, F., Kranz, D. et al. Vanadate mimics effects of fungal cell wall in eliciting gene activation in plant cell cultures. Planta 177, 160–168 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00392804
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