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. 1981 Jun;67(6):1133–1140. doi: 10.1104/pp.67.6.1133

Resistance to Acetohydroxamate Acquired by Slow Adaptive Increases in Urease in Cultured Tobacco Cells 1

Tomoyuki Yamaya 1, Philip Filner 1
PMCID: PMC425848  PMID: 16661823

Abstract

Urease activity of tobacco XD cells (1U cells) had undergone a 4-fold increase (4U cells) during a year of growth on urea (Skokut and Filner 1980 Plant Phvsiol 65: 995-1003). A clone of 4U cells gave rise to 12U cells during another year of growth on urea. The doubling time of 12U cells on urea is 2.2 days, compared to about 4 days for 1U cells, while 1U and 12U cells double in 2 days on nitrate. Acetohydroxamic acid (AHA), a specific inhibitor/reversible inactivator of jack bean urease, affects tobacco cell urease similarly. Fifty per cent inhibition of growth by AHA occurred at 20 micromolar in 1U cells growing on urea and at 165 micromolar in 12U cells growing on urea, but at 600 micromolar for either 1U or 12U cells growing on nitrate. When 12U cells were grown on urea with 100 micromolar AHA, extractable urease activity decreased 80% within 2.5 hours and remained at this level for 2 weeks; the doubling time increased to 3.7 days, and intracellular urea rose 2-fold, compared to 12U cells grown on urea without AHA. Urease of 12U cells inactivated by AHA in vivo could be reactivated to its pre-AHA level by incubation at 30 C after extraction and separation from free AHA. AHA inhibited incorporation of 15N from [15N]urea into Kjeldahl nitrogen in the cells, in spite of the increased intracellular urea. These results indicate that AHA acts primarily by inhibiting urease action, rather than by inhibition of formation of urease protein or of uptake of urea. Because 12U cells are 8 times more tolerant of AHA than 1U cells, it is likely that growth on urea in the presence of AHA should select strongly for cells with high urease.

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