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- Title
Gibberellin signal in barley aleurone: early activation of PLC by G protein mediates amylase secretion.
- Authors
Ana L. Villasuso; María Lía Molas; Graciela Racagni; Guillermina Abdala; Estela Machado-Domenech
- Abstract
The early events related to intracellular GA-signals in aleurone are not clearly established. We demonstrate that GA treatment induced increases in phosphatidylinositol 4P, 5-kinase (PtdInsP-k), diacylglycerol kinase (DAG-k) and phosphatidate kinase (PA-k) activities in barley aleurone within 5 min. The response to GA was also observed as a rapid and transient InsPs/InsP3 time-dependent accumulation. U73122, a phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitor, reduced the InsPs and InsP3 levels and amylase secretion. The G protein activator Mas7 was able to trigger the α-amylase secretion as strongly as GA did; U73122, also reduced this effect. ABA evoked only an increase in phosphatidic acid (PtdOH) and diacylglycerol pyrophosphate (DGPP) levels. This is the first time that a rapid and transient response to GA in correlation with amylase secretion, involving PLC and G protein as well as PA-k activity in the GA signalling pathway, has been demonstrated in aleurone cells.
- Publication
Plant Growth Regulation, 2003, Vol 41, Issue 3, p197
- ISSN
0167-6903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/b:grow.0000007505.37356.89