Produced by the phytopathogenic fungus Alternaria tenuis, it induces chlorosis in many plants, including lettuce, potato, cucumber, and spinach, but has little or no effect on others such as radish, tobacco, and corn (4, 5). The chlorosis results from a selective disruption of chloroplast function in that the amounts of lipids (6) and proteins (7) specific to chloroplasts are reduced and the ultrastructural alterations found are confined to the chloroplast (8). The sharp demarcation between sensitive and insensitive species suggested that chloroplasts from sensitive species might possess a specific receptor site for tentoxin. Because preliminary studies have shown that tentoxin inhibits phosphorylating electron transport in lettuce chloroplasts (9) and chloroplast coupling factor 1 (CF1) is directly associated with photophosphorylation (10), we investigated it as a potential receptor molecule for tentoxin. This paper presents evidence that CF1 from lettuce, a tentoxin-sensitive species, has a single binding site for tentoxin and that when tentoxin occupies this site, both CF1 ATPase and phosphorylating electron transport are inactivated. In contrast, CF1 from radish, an insensitive species, has a lower affinity for tentoxin than does lettuce CF1; tentoxin does not inhibit radish ATPase and only slightly inhibits photophosphorylation.MATERIALS AND METHODS Chloroplasts were prepared from leaves of lettuce (cv. Romaine) and spinach purchased locally and from seedlings of radish (cv. Comet) and other species grown in controlled environment chambers. One hundred grams of selected leaves were blended for 10 sec at 40 in 250 ml of a 0.4 M sucrose 0.05 M N-[tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl]glycine (Tricine) buffer, pH 8.0, (ST). The homogenate was filtered through eight layers of cheesecloth, and the chloroplasts were collected by centrifugation (1000 X g for 10 min). After washing in 40 ml of ST and an additional centrifugation, the chloroplast pellet was suspended in 10 ml of ST and adjusted to 1 mg of chlorophyll per ml (11).Electron transport was measured with an oxygen electrode using methods modified from those of Arntzen (9). Chloroplasts (35 ,g of chlorophyll) in ST were added to 3 ml of stirred reaction mixture at 280 followed by the addition of tentoxin. Next, the electrode was inserted during a brief cessation of stirring. Two minutes after the addition of tentoxin, the reaction chamber was illuminated with a tungsten lamp (15 klm/m2). The course of oxygen uptake was followed during the subsequent 1 min. Basal rates were measured in the presence of 3 mM ADP; complete rates were determined in the added presence of 5 mM NaH2PO4. Only preparations having a complete rate more than twice the basal rate were used.Coupling factor 1 was prepared from chloroplasts by the methods of Lien and Racker (12). Lettuce CF1 was judged to be pure by gel electrophoresis (13, 14) after chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50 using a linear (NH4)2SO4 gradient (Step 3 of ref. 12). Radish CF1 of comparable purity was obtained after initial co...
NOTES 571 round-bottomed flask fitted with a condenser. A rubber connecting tube was led from the top of the condenser into a gas washing bottle which was fitted with a sintered glass disk. To the washing bottle was added 150 ml. of anhydrous ether. While heating the reaction flask a t reflux temperature, a gas was evolved which dissolved in the ether. After 4 hr. the apparatus was disassembled and dry hydrogen chloride gas was bubbled through the ethereal solution. The precipitate which formed was isolated by rapid filtration and dried in vacuo. A yield of 3.2 g. (48.4%) of dimethylamine hydrochloride, m.p. 168-171 ', was obtained.Addition of Dry Ice to the reaction mixture resulted in the formation of a pink organic layer which when separated yielded 7.5 g. (83%) of o-cresol. The p-bromobenzenesulfonate derivative melted a t 78". A mixture melting point determination with an authentic sample showed no depression. The dibromo derivative (m.p. 56') likewise showed no depression in melting point when mixed with an equal portion of authentic material.
The biogenesis of zearalenone or F-2 (2,4-dihydroxy-6-(10-hydroxy-6-oxo-trans-1-undecenyl) benzoic acid lactone) was examined. Of several possible precursors, acetate and malonate were incorporated most readily, and malonate was shown to inhibit incorporation from acetate. Zearalenone isolated from cultures of Fusarium roseum fed 1-14C-acetate was chemically degraded and the distribution of 14C examined. Both the kinetic and degradation studies suggest that zearalenone is derived from acetate through the polyketide pathway.
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