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. 1989 Feb;86(3):891–895. doi: 10.1073/pnas.86.3.891

Functional evidence for an auxin receptor at the plasmalemma of tobacco mesophyll protoplasts

Helene Barbier-Brygoo *,†, Genevieve Ephritikhine *, Dieter Klämbt ‡, Michel Ghislain §, Jean Guern *
PMCID: PMC286584  PMID: 16594015

Abstract

Tobacco mesophyll protoplasts were previously shown to respond to naphthaleneacetic acid by modifying their transmembrane potential difference. In the present work, evacuolated protoplasts were used to show that this response resides only at the plasmalemma. This electrical response was investigated by using polyclonal antibodies directed against plasma membrane antigens presumably involved in the reception and transduction of the auxin signal. An IgG fraction from an antiserum directed against the membrane auxin-binding protein from maize coleoptile completely inhibited the naphthaleneacetic acid-induced response of tobacco protoplasts. The suppression of the auxin-induced variation in the transmembrane potential difference by an IgG preparation directed against the plasmalemma ATPase from yeast demonstrated the involvement of the ATPase in the electrical response. Variation induced by fusicoccin in the transmembrane potential difference of tobacco protoplasts was unaffected by the anti-auxin-binding protein IgG fraction but was completely suppressed by the anti-ATPase IgG preparation. These results demonstrate the presence of a membrane receptor for auxin at the plasmalemma, the binding of the hormone to this receptor leading to the activation of the proton-pumping ATPase. They also show that at least the primary steps of activation by naphthaleneacetic acid are distinct from those of the fusicoccin-induced response.

Keywords: electrical potential difference, evacuolated protoplasts, ATPase

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