Oligouronide signaling of proteinase inhibitor genes in plants: Structure-activity relationships of di- and trigalacturonic acids and their derivatives
| Autor: | Gregory Pearce, Thomas Moloshok, Clarence A. Ryan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
chemistry.chemical_classification
biology Stereochemistry Hexuronic Acids Biophysics Oligosaccharides Biological activity Plants Oligosaccharide Biochemistry Oligomer Kinetics Structure-Activity Relationship chemistry.chemical_compound Sodium borohydride Enzyme chemistry Enzyme inhibitor Carbohydrate Conformation biology.protein Pectins Hemiacetal Structure–activity relationship Protease Inhibitors Molecular Biology |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 294:731-734 |
| ISSN: | 0003-9861 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0003-9861(92)90748-l |
| Popis: | Polygalacturonic acid (DPave approximately 20), alpha-1,4-di- and trigalacturonic acids, delta 4,5-alpha-1,4-di- and delta 4,5-alpha-trigalacturonic acids, and several chemically modified derivatives of these oligomers were prepared. Their proteinase inhibitor-inducing activities were determined by supplying solutions of the compounds to young, excised tomato plants through their cut stems. Digalacturonic acid, on a molar basis, was the most active oligomer (ED50 approximately 1.5 micrograms/plant), being about three times more active than the parent oligogalacturonic acid (ED50 approximately 5.5 micrograms/plant). The specific inducing activity of trigalacturonic acid was about half that of digalacturonic acid. Both delta 4,5-di- and delta 4,5-trigalacturonic acids were about half as active as di- and trigalacturonic acids, respectively. Reduction of the hemiacetal (carbonyl) group of the di- and trigalacturonic acids with sodium borohydride completely destroyed proteinase inhibitor inducing activities, indicating that the inducing activity of both acids depends upon an intact hemiacetal at the reducing termini. Reduction of the double bonds of delta 4,5-di- and delta 4,5-trigalacturonic acids by catalytic hydrogenation with H2 (palladium catalyst) produced derivatives with specific inducing activities of approximately one-half that of the parent compounds. Thus, while the reducing termini of oligogalacturonides require an intact hemiacetal for proteinase inhibitor inducing activities, the nonreducing termini of the small oligouronides do not require a C4 hydroxyl nor a C5 proton to be active inducers. |
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