Phytoalexin synthesis in soybean cells: elicitor induction of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and chalcone synthase mRNAs and correlation with phytoalexin accumulation

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
J EbelR Loyal

Abstract

A glucan elicitor from cell walls of the fungus Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. glycinea, a pathogen of soybean (Glycine max), induced large and rapid increases in the activities of enzymes of general phenylpropanoid metabolism, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, and of the flavonoid pathway, acetyl-CoA carboxylase and chalcone synthase, in suspension-cultured soybean cells. The changes in phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and chalcone synthase activities were correlated with corresponding changes in the mRNA activities encoding these enzymes, as determined by enzyme synthesis in vitro in a mRNA-dependent reticulocyte lysate. The time courses of the elicitor-induced changes in mRNA activities for both enzymes were very similar with respect to each other. Following the onset of induction, the two mRNA activities increased significantly at 3 h, reached highest levels at 5 to 7 h, and subsequently returned to low values at 10 h. Similar degrees of induction of mRNA activities and of the catalytic activities of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and chalcone synthase were observed in response to three diverse microbial compounds, the glucan elicitor from P. megasperma, xanthan, an extracellular polysaccharide from Xanthomonas campestris, and endopolyg...Continue Reading

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