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. 1988 Dec;88(4):1263–1273. doi: 10.1104/pp.88.4.1263

The Effects of Salt Stress on Polypeptides in Membrane Fractions from Barley Roots 1

William J Hurkman 1, Charlene K Tanaka 1, Frances M DuPont 1
PMCID: PMC1055751  PMID: 16666453

Abstract

Cell fractions enriched in endoplasmic reticulum, tonoplast, plasma membrane, and cell walls were isolated from roots of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv CM 72) and the effect of NaCl on polypeptide levels was examined by two-dimensional (2D) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The distribution of membranes on continuous sucrose gradients was not significantly affected by growing seedlings in the presence of NaCl; step gradients were used to isolate comparable membrane fractions from roots of control and salt-grown plants. The membrane and cell wall fractions each had distinctive polypeptide patterns on 2D gels. Silver-stained gels showed that salt stress caused increases or decreases in a number of polypeptides, but no unique polypeptides were induced by salt. The most striking change was an increase in protease resistant polypeptides with isoelectric points of 6.3 and 6.5 and molecular mass of 26 and 27 kilodaltons in the endoplasmic reticulum and tonoplast fractions. Fluorographs of 2D gels of the tonoplast, plasma membrane, and cell wall fractions isolated from roots of intact plants labeled with [35S]methionine in vivo also showed that salt induced changes in the synthesis of a number of polypeptides. There was no obvious candidate for an integral membrane polypeptide that might correspond to a salt-induced sodium-proton anti-porter in the tonoplast membrane.

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