Abstract
The pH-driven accumulation of [3H]indolyl-3-acetic acid (IAA) has been found to occur in membrane vesicles of lupin (Lupinus albus L.) hypocotyls. Most of this association of auxin with membranes is very sensitive to osmotic shock, high concentrations of permeable weak acids, incubation at 20° C for 20 min and to some ionophores. Long incubation times also depress the ability to accumulate radioactive IAA but this ability can be partially restored by a treatment that presumably reconstitutes the pH gradient across the membranes. Two specific inhibitors of auxin transport, N-1-naphtylphthalamic acid and 2,3,5-triiodobenzoic acid, stimulate net IAA uptake with an optimum at about 10-6 M (pH 5.0). At least two auxin carriers appear to be present in the lupin membrane vesicles. An uptake carrier seems to be saturated at 10-7 M IAA in the presence of N-1-naphtylphthalamic acid, but higher IAA concentrations are needed to saturate an efflux carrier. The uptake carrier also shows a high affinity for IAA and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and a low affinity for 1-naphthylacetic acid.
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Abbreviations
- CCCP:
-
carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone
- 2,4-D:
-
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
- IAA:
-
indolyl-3-acetic acid
- NAA:
-
naphthalene-1-acetic acid
- NIG:
-
nigeriein
- NPA:
-
N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid
- TIBA:
-
2,3,5-triiodobenzoic acid
- VAL:
-
valinomycin
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Sabater, M., Sabater, F. Auxin carriers in membranes of lupin hypocotyls. Planta 167, 76–80 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00446371
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