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. 1991 Apr;95(4):990–996. doi: 10.1104/pp.95.4.990

Carrier-Mediated Uptake of Abscisic Acid by Suspension-Cultured Amaranthus tricolor Cells

Jacqueline Bianco-Colomas 1, Philippe Barthe 1, Monique Orlandini 1, Marie Thérèse Le Page-Degivry 1
PMCID: PMC1077642  PMID: 16668133

Abstract

Abscisic acid (ABA) uptake by Amaranthus tricolor cell suspensions was found to include both a nonsaturable component and a saturable part with Km of 3.74 ± 0.43 micromolar and an apparent Vmax of 1.5 ± 0.12 nanomoles per gram per minute. These kinetic parameters as well as the uptake by intact cells at 0°C or by frozen and thawed cells, are consistent with operation of a saturable carrier. This carrier-mediated ABA uptake was partially energized by ΔpH: it increased as the external pH was lowered to pH 4.0; it decreased after the lowering of the ΔpH by the proton ionophore carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone or after the altering of metabolically maintained pH gradient by metabolic inhibitors (KCN, oligomycin). The carrier is specific for ABA among the plant growth regulators tested, is unaffected by (RS)-trans-ABA and was inhibited by (S)-ABA, (R)-ABA, and also by the ABA analog LAB 173711.

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