Systemin Potentiates the Oxidative Burst in Cultured Tomato Cells1
AUTOR(ES)
Stennis, Michael J.
FONTE
American Society of Plant Physiologists
RESUMO
Plants that have been wounded by insects or other herbivores may be more susceptible to infection by adventitious microbes. Wound-induced signal molecules, which serve to induce responses in the plant that retard further feeding, might also act to prepare a plant for possible pathogen attack. We have examined the effect of a wound-generated systemic messenger (systemin) on a pathogen-stimulated defense-response marker, the oxidative burst. We observed that neither systemin nor its inactive analog (A-17) was able to directly induce H2O2 biosynthesis in suspension-cultured tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) cells, regardless of the duration of exposure of the cells to the two peptides. Similarly, neither systemin nor A-17 was capable of modifying an oligogalacturonide-elicited oxidative burst, as long as elicitor addition occurred within minutes of treatment with systemin or A-17. In contrast, preexposure of the cell cultures to systemin (but not to A-17) led to a time-dependent enhancement of the oligogalacturonide-elicited oxidative burst. By 12 h of exposure, the H2O2 biosynthetic capacity of systemin-treated cells exceeded that of the control cells by a factor of 16 ± 2. A similar up-regulation by systemin of a mechanically stimulated oxidative burst was also observed. Because the systemin-induced augmentation in oxidant synthesis is quantitatively prevented by coincubation with 2 μm cycloheximide, and because the oxidative burst of oligogalacturonic acid-elicited control cells (no systemin exposure) is unaffected by preincubation with cycloheximide, we conclude that systemin enhancement of the tomato-cell oxidative burst requires protein synthesis.
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