[On the mechanism of action of thyroid gland hormone and antithyroidal drugs. With special reference to structural similarity to synthetic plant hormones].
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Prototheca wickerhamii was treated in vitro with 11 different herbicides and plant hormones. Growth was inhibited by indolyl-3-acetic acid, indolyl-3-butyric acid and indolyl-3-propionic acid at 400 mug per ml. Coconut milk was stimulatory.
This paper describes a new method for qualitative and quantitative assay of abscisic acid and other acidic plant hormones, such as indoleacetic acid and the gibberellins, by the gas-liquid chromatography of their trimethylsilyl derivatives. Interfering substances in plant extracts were largely removed by preliminary column chromatography with carbon-celite and elution of the abscisic acid with 60% acetone, permitting direct determination of abscisic acid by gas-liquid chromatography using a flame ionization detector. (A level of 0.65 mg/kg fr wt was found.) This method enables measurement of amounts of abscisic acid as low as 0.025 mug. In impure samples collected by gas-liquid chromatography the abscisic acid recovered could be measured quantitatively by use of its ultraviolet absorption maximum at 260 mmu.
The interaction between the plant hormone, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), and phosphatidylcholines (PC) of varying acyl chain length has been studied by monitoring the IAA-induced changes in 1H-NMR chemical shifts of lipid headgroup -+N(CH3)3 protons. For PCs in both micellar and vesicle bilayer systems these shifts increase with chain length although for the latter the magnitude of the shifts decreases with an increase in chain unsaturation. In systems composed of mixtures of pure PCs the headgroup -+N(CH3)3 resonance for each phospholipid is shifted by IAA to different extents, indicating that IAA is able to distinguish between individual PCs in mixtures. In di-C12PC and di-C14PC, but not di-C10PC vesicle systems, the -+N(CH3)3 resonance is split into two components reflecting differences in packing of the inside and outside lamellae. This splitting is altered by IAA indicating that IAA interacts differently with the inside and outside PC molecules.
Molecular genetic analysis has identified a variety of molecules that are required for correct signaling of the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). It now appears that proteins involved in RNA metabolism also modulate the ABA response in Arabidopsis.
Regulated transport has long been known to play a key part in action of the plant hormone auxin. Now, at last, a family of auxin efflux carriers has been identified, and the characterisation of one family member has provided strong evidence in support of models that have been proposed to explain gravitropic curvature in roots.
A method for separation and purification of plant hormones auxin and abscisic acid based on mixed mode reversed-phase anion-exchange solid phase extraction and two-dimensional HPLC was developed. Two-dimensional HPLC in "heart cutting" mode was very efficient in the purification of these two hormones. Its purification power is high enough to allow reliable on-line quantification of both hormones even with non-selective detectors.
1. The effect of the plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and the chemically related compounds: serotonin, tryptophan, I. pyruvic, I. butyric, I. propionic and tryptamine on the growth of 3T3 cells has been studied. 2. Each of these compounds increases the cell number in a variable degree. The increase is related to the presence of the serum in the medium. 3. The kinetic relation between IAA, foetal calf serum and cell growth was studied. 4. It may be that IAA and related compounds affect the cell growth through adenylate cyclase and cAMP-cGMP systems.
These studies evaluated the teratogenic potential of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), a naturally occurring plant hormone, in CF-1 mice and Sprague-Dawley rats. Mice were given 5, 50, 200, or 500 mg IAA/kg/day by gavage on days 7 through 15 of gestation. Rats were given 50, 200, or 500 mg IAA/kg/day by gavage on days 7 through 15 of gestation. IAA was teratogenic in mice and rats at 500 mg/kg/day; cleft palate was induced in both species at this dose level. In mice, other malformations including exencephaly, ablepharia, dilated cerebral ventricles, and crooked tail were also observed. Mice given 500 mg/kg of IAA gained less than control mice during gestation; no evidence of maternal toxicity was observed in rats. IAA did not cause fetal resorptions in either species and was not teratogenic at dose levels below 500 mg/kg.
The thiamin diphosphate-dependent enzyme indolepyruvate decarboxylase catalyses the formation of indoleacetaldehyde from indolepyruvate, one step in the indolepyruvate pathway of biosynthesis of the plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid. The crystal structure of this enzyme from Enterobacter cloacae has been determined at 2.65 A resolution and refined to a crystallographic R-factor of 20.5% (Rfree 23.6%). The subunit of indolepyruvate decarboxylase contains three domains of open alpha/beta topology, which are similar in structure to that of pyruvate decarboxylase. The tetramer has pseudo 222 symmetry and can be described as a dimer of dimers. It resembles the tetramer of pyruvate decarboxylase from Zymomonas mobilis, but with a relative difference of 20 degrees in the angle between the two dimers. Active site residues are highly conserved in indolepyruvate/pyruvate decarboxylase, suggesting that the interactions with the cofactor thiamin diphosphate and the catalytic mechanisms are very similar. The substrate binding site in indolepyruvate decarboxylase contains a large hydrophobic pocket which can accommodate the bulky indole moiety of the substrate. In pyruvate decarboxylases this pocket is smaller in size and allows discrimination of larger vs. smaller substrates. In most pyruvate decarboxylases, restriction of cavity size is due to replacement of residues at three positions by large, hydrophobic amino acids such as tyrosine or tryptophan.
The 2.4 A crystal structure of the vitamin B6-dependent enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase is described. This enzyme catalyses the committed step in the biosynthesis of ethylene, a plant hormone that is responsible for the initiation of fruit ripening and for regulating many other developmental processes. ACC synthase has 15 % sequence identity with the well-studied aspartate aminotransferase, and a completely different catalytic activity yet the overall folds and the active sites are very similar. The new structure together with available biochemical data enables a comparative mechanistic analysis that largely explains the catalytic roles of the conserved and non-conserved active site residues. An external aldimine reaction intermediate (external aldimine with ACC, i.e. with the product) has been modeled. The new structure provides a basis for the rational design of inhibitors with broad agricultural applications.
Rumex palustris has the capacity to respond to complete submergence with hyponastic (upward) growth and stimulated elongation of petioles. These adaptive responses allow survival of this plant in habitats with sustained high water levels by re-establishing contact with the aerial environment. Accumulated ethylene in submerged petioles interacts with ethylene receptor proteins and operates as a reliable sensor for the under-water environment. Further downstream in the transduction pathway, a fast and substantial decrease of the endogenous abscisic acid concentration and a certain threshold level of endogenous auxin and gibberellin are required for hyponastic growth and petiole elongation. Interactions of these plant hormones results in a significant increase of the in vitro cell wall extensibility in submerged petioles. Furthermore, the pattern of transcript accumulation of a R. palustris alpha-expansin gene correlated with the pattern of petiole elongation upon submergence.
Genetic screens have been extremely useful in identifying genes involved in hormone signal transduction. However, although these screens were originally designed to identify specific components involved in early hormone signalling, mutations in these genes often confer changes in sensitivity to more than one hormone at the whole-plant level. Moreover, a variety of hormone response genes has been identified through screens that were originally designed to uncover regulators of sugar metabolism. Together, these facts indicate that the linear representation of the hormone signalling pathways controlling a specific aspect of plant growth and development is not sufficient, and that hormones interact with each other and with a variety of developmental and metabolic signals. Following the advent of arabidopsis molecular genetics we are beginning to understand some of the mechanisms by which a hormone is transduced into a cellular response. In this Botanical Briefing we review a subset of genes in arabidopsis that influence hormonal cross-talk, with emphasis on the gibberellin, abscisic acid and ethylene pathways. In some cases it appears that modulation of hormone sensitivity can cause changes in the synthesis of an unrelated hormone, while in other cases a hormone response gene defines a node of interaction between two response pathways. It also appears that a variety of hormones may converge to regulate the turnover of important regulators involved in growth and development. Examples are cited of the recent use of suppressor and enhancer analysis to identify new nodes of interaction between these pathways.
An extract from 8-day-old cotton ovules (Gossypium hirsutum L.) was partitioned into three fractions and each fraction was derivatized and analyzed separately. Gas-liquid chromatography and computer-controlled gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry were used to separate, measure, and identify the naturally occurring plant hormones. A single extract contained abscisic acid, indoleacetic acid, and gibberellins A(1), A(3), A(4), A(7), A(9), and A(13) in the first fraction; ethyl indole-3-acetate and indole-3-aldehyde in the second fraction; and the cytokinins 6-(3-methyl-4-hydroxybutylamino)purine (dihydrozeatin), 6-(4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-trans-butenylamino) purine (zeatin), 6-(3-methyl-2-butenylamino)purine(2iP), 6-(3-methyl-2-butenylamino)-9-beta-d-ribofuranosylpurine(2iPA), and 6-(4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-trans-butenylamino)-9-beta-d- ribofuranosylpurine (zeatin riboside) in the third fraction.
Solenogyne mikadoi is a subtropical rheophyte endemic to the Ryukyu Archipelago that develops rosette leaves 2-3 cm in diameter. In contrast, the other three species of this genus all occur in temperate grasslands of Australia and develop rosette leaves about 10 cm in diameter. To examine the involvement of the plant hormones gibberellin and brassinosteroid in the adaptive dwarfism of S. mikadoi, we compared the effects of GA(3) and brassinolide, and their biosynthesis inhibitors on the morphology of the first leaves of S. mikadoi and its temperate relative S. bellioides. In S. mikadoi, one-directional (lengthwise) leaf elongation was strongly facilitated by the application of GA(3) and suppressed by a gibberellin-biosynthetic inhibitor, uniconazole-P, while leaf width (transverse) expansion was insensitive to and was never facilitated by any of the compounds used. Conversely, in S. bellioides, brassinolide facilitated both the elongation and expansion of leaves, while a brassinosteroid-specific biosynthesis inhibitor, brassinazole220, suppressed both. One-directional leaf elongation caused by the reduced sensitivity to brassinolide in S. mikadoi and brassinolide-dependent two-dimensional leaf expansion in S. bellioides both appear to be adaptations to their respective habitats: S. mikadoi has narrow leaves resistant to flowing water, whereas S. bellioides has broad leaves capable of harnessing sufficient light and water in temperate grasslands.
The peroxidase-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of a linear aldehyde, leading to the next lower homologue in the triplet state, is accompanied by Norrish type II product ethylene when the substrate is pentanal. This system appears to provide an example of "photobiochemistry without light" because ethylene is a plant hormone and is formed in lipid peroxidation when the recurrent oxidation of linear aldehydes occurs.
Protein kinases play a central role in signal transduction in all organisms and to study signal transduction in response to salt stress we have identified and characterized a gene encoding a protein kinase that is induced by salt stress and abscisic acid (ABA) in the salt-tolerant wild wheatgrass Lophopyrum elongatum (Host) A. Love. The product of the early salt stress-induced gene, Esi47, was found to belong to the "novel Arabidopsis protein kinase" group of plant serine/threonine protein kinases. Transient gene expression assays in barley aleurone tissue showed Esi47 to suppress the gibberellin induction of the barley low-pI alpha-amylase gene promoter, thus providing evidence for the role of this protein kinase gene in plant hormone signaling. Esi47 contains a small upstream open reading frame in the 5'-untranslated region of its transcript that is implicated in mediating the repression of the basal level of the gene expression and in regulating the ABA inducibility of the gene, as shown in the transient gene expression assay in maize callus. Three Arabidopsis homologs of Esi47 were identified, and different members of this clade of genes showed differential patterns of regulation by salt stress and ABA in Arabidopsis roots and leaves. At least one of the Arabidopsis homologs contains a small open reading frame in its 5'-untranslated region, indicating that the unusual regulatory mechanism identified in Esi47 may be widely conserved.
The redox behavior was evaluated for several (BIPY)Cu(I) complexes (BIPY = 2,2'-bipyridyl) with unsaturated ligands by means of cyclic voltammetry in CH2Cl2 at reduced temperatures (-78 degrees, -23 degrees, 0 degree C). The complexes studied are [Cu(I)(BIPY)(C2H4)]PF6, [Cu(I)(BIPY)(3-hexyne)] PF6, [Cu(I)(BIPY)(DEAD)]PF6, ([Cu(I)(BIPY)]2 DEAD)[PF6]2 (DEAD = diethyl acetylene dicarboxylate) and [Cu(I)(BIPY)(CH3CN)]PF6. The oxidations are quasi-reversible at -78 degrees C for scan rates of 20 to 200 mV/sec. The reductions were irreversible on the CV time scale. Evidence is presented in support of a role for an electron transfer mechanism in the case of the plant hormone ethylene. Related literature data are also discussed.