Jasmonic acid inducible aspartic proteinase inhibitors from potato.

Phytochemistry

Faculty of Pharmacy, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Published: March 1997

A new cDNA clone coding for an aspartic proteinase inhibitor homologue was isolated from a potato tuber cDNA library. Southern blot analysis was used to study the structural diversity of the aspartic proteinase inhibitor gene family in several species of the Solanaceae. The existence of sequence-homologous genes was confirmed in the genomic DNA of different potato cultivars (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Désirée, Pentland Squire and Igor), tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.), aubergine (S. melongena L.) and a wild type of bittersweet (S. dulcamara L.). Northern blot hybridization of total RNA, isolated from leaves under non-stress conditions, of different solanaceous species and of potato tubers showed that the gene transcripts encoding aspartic proteinase inhibitors occur mainly in potato tubers. The presence of several cathepsin D inhibitor isoforms has been detected at the protein level. At least four isoforms were isolated by affinity chromatography on cathepsin D-Sepharose and characterized. Additionally, exogenous treatment of potato plantlets by jasmonic acid (JA) over a wide range of concentrations (0-100 microM) was performed in a stem node culture in vitro. We demonstrated that the expression of aspartic proteinase inhibitor mRNA was drastically induced in potato shoots at concentrations of 50-100 microM JA.

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