Abstract
The contribution of proteases in the central vacuole of Chara corallina internodal cells to overall cellular protein degradation was examined. I measured the decrease in the trichloroacetic acid (TCA)-precipitable radioactivity in the cell for a 6-d chase period after labeling cellular proteins with [3H]leucine. The kinetics of [3H]leucine-labeled protein disappearance showed that the half-life of the cellular soluble proteins was 4 to 5 d. This value did not change when cells were treated with (2S,3S)-trans-epoxysuccinyl-L-leucylamido- 3-methyl-butane ethyl ester, a permeant inhibitor of cysteine proteases. This inhibitor mostly inhibited bovine serum albumin-degrading activity in the vacuole. I also measured the release of TCA-soluble radioactivity from the TCA-insoluble fraction in the cell. This experiment showed that 13% of [3H]leucine-labeled cellular proteins were degraded in 1 d. This value agreed well with the half-life obtained for soluble proteins in the above experiment. This value did not change even when both trans-epoxysuccinyl-L-leucylamido-(4-guanidino)butane, a cysteine protease inhibitor, and pepstatin A, an aspartic protease inhibitor, were introduced into the vacuole. With this operation, bovine serum albumin-degrading activity in the vacuole was almost completely inhibited. These data suggest that the cytoplasmic but not the vacuolar proteases contribute to cellular protein turnover in Chara internodal cells.
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