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. 1997 Nov;115(3):1065–1072. doi: 10.1104/pp.115.3.1065

Expression of a vacuolar protein (VP24) in anthocyanin-producing cells of sweet potato in suspension culture.

M Nozue 1, K Yamada 1, T Nakamura 1, H Kubo 1, M Kondo 1, M Nishimura 1
PMCID: PMC158570  PMID: 9390439

Abstract

VP24, an abundant protein of 24 kD, was found to accumulate in the anthocyanin-containing vacuoles of cells of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) in suspension culture. Light-induced expression of VP24 was analyzed by immunoblotting in three different cell lines that produced anthocyanins at different rates. The expression of VP24 was closely correlated with the accumulation of anthocyanin in these cell lines. Immunocytochemical detection of VP24 with specific antibodies on thin sections showed that VP24 was localized in the intravacuolar pigmented globules (cyanoplasts) in the anthocyanin-containing vacuoles and not in the tonoplast. No VP24 immunogold labeling was detected in the vacuoles of the cell line that does not produce anthocyanin. We suggest that VP24 may be involved in the formation of the cyanoplast via an interaction with anthocyanin, and that it may play an important role in the trapping in vacuoles of large amounts of anthocyanins that have been transported into these vacuoles.

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