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PLANTA
Volume 213, Issue 1, Pages 101-108Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s004250000477
Keywords
amitrole; etioplast structure; Hordeum (tetrapyrrole biosynthesis); magnesium photoporphyrin; norflurazon; plastid signal
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The effect of amitrole, known as an inhibitor of carotenoid biosynthesis, upon tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and its regulation has been studied. Etiolated barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seedlings, grown in 125 muM amitrole, accumulated high levels of 5-aminolevulinate, Mg-protoporphyrin, Mg-protoporphyrin monomethyl ester, and protochlorophyllide. The amitrole-treated seedlings did not form paracrystalline prolamellar bodies, and the induction of Lhc and RbcS gene expression was reduced by non-photooxidative, low-intensity light. None of these events was observed upon treatment of the seedlings with 100 muM norflurazon, another inhibitor of carotenoid biosynthesis. The effect of amitrole cannot. be explained solely by interaction with a presumed feedback inhibition of 5-aminolevulinate synthesis since incubation with amitrole and 5-aminolevulinate indicated that deregulation also occurs at later steps of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. A possible relationship between this deregulation and ultrastructural changes is discussed. In connection with previously published data, we discuss Mg-protoporphyrin and its monomethyl ester as possible candidates for a plastid signal that operates as a negative factor, reducing the expression of Lhc and RbcS genes in this higher plant.
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