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. 1993 Dec;103(4):1277–1283. doi: 10.1104/pp.103.4.1277

Barley pathogenesis-related proteins with fungal cell wall lytic activity inhibit the growth of yeasts.

J Grenier 1, C Potvin 1, A Asselin 1
PMCID: PMC159116  PMID: 8290631

Abstract

Proteins from intercellular fluid extracts of chemically stressed barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) leaves were separated by native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis at alkaline or acid pH. Polyacrylamide gels contained Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bakers' yeast) or Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast) crude cell walls for assaying yeast wall lysis. In parallel, gels were overlaid with a suspension of yeasts for assaying growth inhibition by pathogenesis-related proteins. The same assays were also performed with proteins separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under nonreducing conditions. In alkaline native polyacrylamide gels, only one band corresponding to yeast cell wall lytic activity was found to be inhibitory to bakers' yeast growth, whereas in acidic native polyacrylamide gels one band inhibited the growth of both yeasts. Under denaturing nonreducing conditions, one band of 19 kD inhibited the growth of both fungi. The 19-kD band corresponded to a basic protein after two-dimensional gel analysis. The 19-kD protein with yeast cell wall lytic activity and inhibitory to both yeasts was found to be different from previously reported barley chitosanases that were lytic to fungal spores. It could be different from other previously reported lytic antifungal activities related to pathogenesis-related proteins.

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