Purification and partial characterization of tomato extensin peroxidase

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Early plant defense response is characterized by elevation of activity of peroxidases and enhanced insolubilization of hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins, such as extensin, in the cell wall. The insolubilization process (cross-linking between soluble extensin precursor molecules) is catalyzed by extensin peroxidases. We have ionically eluted extensin peroxidases from intact water-washed suspension-cultured tomato (hybrid of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill, and Lycopersicon peruvianum L. [Mill.]) cells and purified them to homogeneity by molecular sieve and cation-exchange chromatography. Four ionic forms of peroxidase (PI, PII, EPIII, and EPIV) were resolved; only the latter two cross-linked tomato soluble extensin. The molecular weight (34,000-37,000), amino acid composition, and isoelectric point (9.0) of the extensin peroxidases were determined. Substrate specificities of the enzymes were investigated: soluble extensin and potato lectin (a hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein with a domain that strongly resembles extensin) were cross-linked by only two forms of the enzyme, whereas bovine serum albumin, aldolase, insulin, a number of other marker proteins, and proteins eluted from tomato cells (except extensin) could not be cross-linked. We have also isolated a yeast elicitor that enhances total peroxidase activity and extensin insolubilization within 1 h of challenge in cultured cells of tomato. A highly sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique using polyclonal antiserum raised against soluble tomato extensin was used to demonstrate extensin insolubilization in vivo. A tomato cell-wall peroxidase that cross-links extensin has been purified and may have a role in plant defense.

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Brownleader, M. D., Ahmed, N., Trevan, M., Chaplin, M. F., & Dey, P. M. (1995). Purification and partial characterization of tomato extensin peroxidase. Plant Physiology, 109(3), 1115–1123. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.109.3.1115

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