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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 45, 期 10, 页码 1434-1441出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch164
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coccolithophorid; Emiliania huxleyi; selenite uptake; selenium accumulation
We investigated the uptake and bioconcentration of the essential element selenium by a coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi, using [Se-75]selenite. The time course of Se-75 uptake showed a biphasic pattern, namely a primary phase and a subsequent secondary phase. The primary and secondary phases are due to a rapid selenite uptake process that attained a stationary level within 2 min and a slow Se-accumulation process that continued at a constant rate for 4 h or longer, respectively. Kinetic analysis revealed that the selenite uptake process consists of two components, one saturable and one linearly related to substrate concentration. The K. of the saturable component was 29.8 nM selenite; the uptake activity of this component was suppressed by inhibitors of ATP biogenesis, suggesting that selenite uptake is driven by a high-affinity, active transport system. During a 6-h incubation of cells with [Se-75]selenite, 70% of the intracellular Se-75 was incorporated into low-molecularmass compounds (LMCs), and 17% was incorporated into proteins, but [Se-75]selenite was barely detectable. A pulse-chase experiment demonstrated that the Se-75 that had accumulated in LMCs was transferred into proteins. When the syntheses of amino acids and proteins were each separately inhibited, Se-75 incorporation into LMCs and proteins was decreased. These results suggest that E. huxleyi rapidly absorbs selenite, filling a small intracellular pool. Then, Se-containing LMCs are immediately synthesized from the selenite, creating a pool of LMCs that are then metabolized to selenoproteins.
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