Glutamine synthetase of hevea brasiliensis latex : characterisation and physiological regulation (Record no. 60009)

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Personal name Clement Anne
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Title Glutamine synthetase of hevea brasiliensis latex : characterisation and physiological regulation
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Name of publisher Journal of Rubber Research
Year of publication 2001
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Number of Pages 56-68
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Summary, etc Regular exploitation of rubber tree causes intense metabolic activity in latex cells located in the phloem, associated with the regeneration of the latex cellular components removed by tapping. In this context, glutamine synthetase (GS) plays a prominent role by ensuring ammonium fixation necessary for the regeneration of latex nitrogeneous components. In latex, GS activity was detected in the cytosol only. The enzyme was purified and its main physico-chemical characteristics were determined. Its molecular mass was 450 kDa for the native form and 45kDa +_ 5kDa for the sub-unit. The pH optimum was found to be 8.0 and variaitons in the physiological pH range (6.4 to 7.2) strongly affected GS activity. Km for ammonium, glutamate and ATP were estimated at 8mM +_ 2 mM +_ 5 mM and 0.6 mM +_ 0.05 mM, respectively. Comparison with the cytosol physiological parameters showed the importance of ATP concentration for GS activity regulation. Functioning of the purified enzyme in a paraphysiological (ultrafiltrated, protein free) medium, as compared with an optimised control medium, demonstrated that physiological ATP concentrations were significantly limiting for GS potential activity. Treatment with ethephon increases latex production both by increasing latex flow duration and by stimulating the regeneration of metabolism. In this paper we demonstrated that ethephon treatment induced a concomitant increase in pH, ATP concentration and GS activity. These results suggest that biochemical mechanisms involving pH and ATP participate in the regulation of GS activity in response to ethylene, in addition to the previously observed stimulation of gene expression.
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Topical Term Biochemical analysis
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Topical Term Characterisation
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Topical Term Ethephon
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Topical Term Glutamine synthetase
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Topical Term GT1
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Topical Term Hevea brasiliensis
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Topical Term Latex stimulation
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Topical Term Physiological regulation
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Topical Term Purification
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Personal name Hirel B
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Personal name Jacob Jean-Louis
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Personal name Prevot Jean-Claude
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Personal name Pujade-Renaud V
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