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. 1992 Jan;98(1):183–190. doi: 10.1104/pp.98.1.183

Sidedness of Plant Plasma Membrane Vesicles Altered by Conditions of Preparation

Andrew O Brightman 1, D James Morré 1
PMCID: PMC1080167  PMID: 16668612

Abstract

Right-side-out vesicles of plasma membrane from soybean (Glycine max Merr.) were isolated by aqueous two-phase partition. Inside-out vesicles were formed when these preparations were diluted or frozen and thawed. Sidedness (orientation) was determined by preparative free-flow electrophoresis, concanavalin A binding, and ATPase latency. Under usual conditions of aqueous two-phase partition, the bulk of the vesicles were strongly reactive with concanavalin A-peroxidase and showed a high level of structure-linked latency as expected of a right-side-out (cytoplasmic-side-in) orientation. The vesicles migrated as a single electrophoretic peak. When frozen and thawed, vesicle diameters were reduced and a second population of vesicles of increased electrophoretic mobility was obtained. This second population of vesicles was weakly reactive with concanavalin A-peroxidase and showed low latency as expected of an inside-out (cytoplasmic-side-out) orientation. If the plasma membrane vesicles were diluted with water, a mixture of right-side-out and inside-out vesicles again was obtained. However, some of the cytoplasmic-side-out vesicles that were concanavalin A-unreactive and had low ATPase latency migrated more slowly as a second, less electronegative peak, upon free-flow electrophoresis. The results suggest that right-side-out and inside-out plasma membrane vesicles differ in electrophoretic mobility but that both the orientation and the absolute electrophoretic mobility of the differently oriented vesicles may be influenced by the preparative conditions.

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