(*contributed equally to this work) 发布: 2018年07月05日第8卷第13期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2912 浏览次数: 6944
评审: Amey RedkarBen SpitzerGongjun Shi
Abstract
Plant vacuoles are the largest compartment in plant cells, occupying more than 80% of the cell volume. A variety of proteins, sugars, pigments and other metabolites are stored in these organelles (Paris et al., 1996; Olbrich et al., 2007). Flowers produce a variety of specialized metabolites, some of which are unique to this organ, such as components of pollination syndromes, i.e., scent volatiles and flavonoids (Hoballah et al., 2007; Cna'ani et al., 2015). To study the compounds stored in floral vacuoles, this compartment must be separated from the rest of the cell. To enable isolation of vacuoles, protoplasts were first generated by incubating pierced corollas with cellulase and macrozyme enzymes. After filtering and several centrifugation steps, protoplasts were separated from the debris and damaged/burst protoplasts, as revealed by microscopic observation. Concentrated protoplasts were lysed, and vacuoles were extracted by Ficoll-gradient centrifugation. Vacuoles were used for quantitative GC-MS analyses of sequestered metabolites. This method allowed us to identify vacuoles as the subcellular accumulation site of glycosylated volatile phenylpropanoids and to hypothesize that conjugated scent compounds are sequestered in the vacuoles en route to the headspace (Cna'ani et al., 2017).
Keywords: Vacuole (液泡)Background
Plant vacuoles occupy up to 80% of the cellular volume in plant cells. These organelles are essential for plant growth and development, with varied functions throughout the plant's life. Vacuoles compartmentalize different components, such as proteins, sugars, ions and specialized metabolites, and are involved in the plant's response to different developmental and environmental signals, e.g., stomatal opening, adaptation to cold, defense against herbivores and floral pigmentation (Shitan and Yazaki, 2013). Specific transporters are employed by vacuoles to allow penetration of inorganic ions and hydrophilic metabolites through the lipid bilayer membrane of the tonoplast (Schneider et al., 2012; Liu et al., 2015).
Specialized metabolites, including floral scent volatiles, are often produced and/or accumulated in sink organs, such as flower petals, glandular trichomes, root bark, etc. (Hanhineva et al., 2008; Kortbeek et al., 2016; Lashbrooke et al., 2016). Volatile phenylpropanoids and other specialized metabolites, e.g., flavonoids, monoterpenes, betalains, alkaloids and brassinosteroids, undergo various postproduction modifications, such as glycosylation, methylation and acylation. These modifications increase their stability, enable transport, lower their toxicity by blocking reactive groups and enhance their water solubility, thus enabling storage in subcellular compartments (Bowles et al., 2005; Dean et al., 2005). Glycosylated scent compounds are generally regarded as storage forms or precursors for the emission of aglycones at the appropriate time or stage of plant or organ development (Rambla et al., 2014). Floral scent has been studied extensively in the model plant Petunia. However, little is known about the intracellular fate of scent compounds. To this end, based on several previously described protocols from different plants/tissues (Robert et al., 2007; Fontes et al., 2010; Faraco et al., 2011 and 2014; Pérez-Díaz et al., 2014; Shen et al., 2014; Cna'ani et al., 2017), we generated a procedure for vacuolar isolation from petunia petals. Using a GC-MS–based protocol for isolating glycosylated volatiles from petal vacuoles, we were able to reveal a mechanism used by flowers to sequester volatile phenylpropanoids in vacuoles prior to their developmentally regulated emission to the environment.
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Skaliter, O., Ravid, J., Cna'ani, A., Dvir, G., Knafo, R. and Vainstein, A. (2018). Isolation of Intact Vacuoles from Petunia Petals and Extraction of Sequestered Glycosylated Phenylpropanoid Compounds. Bio-protocol 8(13): e2912. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2912.
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植物科学 > 植物新陈代谢 > 代谢物谱
细胞生物学 > 细胞器分离 > 液泡
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