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  • Title: Properties and synthesis de novo of auxin-induced α-amylase in pea cotyledons.
    Author: Hirasawa E, Yamamoto S.
    Journal: Planta; 1991 Jul; 184(4):438-42. PubMed ID: 24194234.
    Abstract:
    Analysis of starch-degrading enzymes in a crude extract of detached cotyledons of Pisum sativum L. by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) demonstrated the presence of one band of α-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) activity. The activity of only this amylase was promoted in cotyledons incubated with 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). The auxin-induced α-amylase from pea cotyledons was purified to homogeneity, as judged by the criterion of a single band after PAGE. The relative molecular mass (Mr), estimated by gel filtration, was approx. 42 000 and the enzyme contained no carbohydrate moiety. Sodium dodecylsulfate-PAGE yielded a single band that corresponded to an Mr of 41 000. The isoelectric point was 5.85 and the aminoacid composition was similar to that of α-amylase from other plants. When [(3)H]leucine was fed to detached dry cotyledons prior to incubation, the radioactivity in α-amylase from cotyledons incubated in the presence of 2,4-D was found to be approx. 10-fold higher than that from cotyledons incubated in distilled water. When α-amylase from cotyledons incubated with (2)H2O that contained 2,4-D and the tritiated amylase were centrifuged together in a CsCl density gradient, the peak of enzymatic activity of deuterated α-amylase was shifted to a denser fraction than the peak of radioactivity of the tritiated enzyme. These results show that auxin-induced α-amylase in pea cotyledons is synthesized de novo.
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