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  • Title: Membrane-bound ATPase of intact vacuoles and tonoplasts isolated from mature plant tissue.
    Author: Lin W, Wagner GJ, Siegelman HW, Hind G.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1977 Feb 14; 465(1):110-7. PubMed ID: 13830.
    Abstract:
    Intact vacuoles were isolated from petals of Hippeastrum and Tulipa (Wagner G.J. and Siegelman, H.W. (1975) Science 190, 1298--1299). The ATPase activity of fresh vacuole suspensions was found to be 2--3 times that of protoplasts from the same tissue. 70--80% of the ATPase activity of intact vacuoles was recovered in tonoplast preparations. The antibiotic Dio-9 at 6mug/10(6) vacuoles or protoplasts causes 40% inhibition. However, only the protoplast ATPase is sensitive to oligomycin. N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) slightly stimulates ATPase activity in both vacuole and protoplast suspensions, whereas ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl carbodiimide) (EDAC) strongly inhibits. Spectrophotometric studies show that in the petal the vacuolar contents have a pH of 4.0 for Tuplipa and 4.3 for Hippeastrum, whereas the intact isolated vacuole has an internal pH of 7.0 (in pH 8.0 buffer) for (Tulipa and about 7.3 for Hippeastrum. Internal ion concentrations of 150, 46, 30, 30 and 6 mM were found for K+, Na+, Mg2+, Cl-, and Ca2+ respectively, which are about the same as those in protoplasts.
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