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. 1988 Jun;87(2):536–541. doi: 10.1104/pp.87.2.536

Subcellular Localization of Proteases in Developing Leaves of Oats (Avena sativa L.)

Henry C P M van der Valk 1,1, Leendert C van Loon 1
PMCID: PMC1054789  PMID: 16666179

Abstract

The distribution and subcellular localization of the two major proteases present in oat (Avena sativa L. cv Victory) leaves was investigated. Both the acidic protease, active at pH 4.5, and the neutral protease, active at pH 7.5, are soluble enzymes; a few percent of the enzyme activity was ionically bound or loosely associated with organellar structures sedimenting at 1000g. On the average, 16% of the acidic protease could be washed out of the intercellular space of the leaf. Since isolated protoplasts contained correspondingly lower activities as compared to crude leaf extracts, part of the acidic activity is associated with cell walls. No neutral protease activity was recovered in intercellular washing fluid. Of the activities present in protoplasts, the acidic protease was localized in the vacuole, whereas the neutral protease was not. The localization of the acidic protease in vacuoles did not change during leaf development up to an advanced stage of senescence, when more than 50% of the leaf protein had been degraded. These observations indicate that protein degradation during leaf senescence is not due to a redistribution of acidic protease activity from the vacuole to the cytoplasm.

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