Plants can not escape from biotic and abiotic stress factors such as, extreme temperatures, high light intensity, drought, UV radiation, heavy metals, and pathogen attack. Plants have versatile defens systems against such stress conditions. In this study, the role of glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) in cold stress conditions were examined. Glutathione S-transferases are the enzymes that detoxify natural and exogenous toxic compounds by conjugation with glutathione. Glutathione, an endogenous tripeptide, is important as reducing agent, nucleophilic scavenger, and alleviate the chemical toxicity in the plants by the reaction of GSTs. Glutathione conjugates can be transported to the vacuoles or apoplast and are generally much less
toxic than the parent compounds. In plants there are four distinct families of the soluble GSTs, namely Phi (F), Type I / Zeta (Z), Type II / Tau (U), Type III / Theta (T), Type IV. By contrast with the mammalian families of GST, relatively little is known about the plant GST families. Up to date, there is not any study on GST isolation and characterization from Turkish red pine, in this respect, this study well play a frontier role the future research dealing with this topic.
In this study, some properties of Turkish red pine GST activity towards CDNB (1-chloro-2,4 dinitrobenzene) were examined. The average specific activity of Turkish red pine GST towards CDNB was found as 200± / 50 (Mean± / SE, n= 18) nmole/min/mg cytosolic protein. GSTs in cytosol prepared from Turkish red pine needles retained its activity without loss for four weeks at -80& / #61616 / C. The rate of conjugation reactions were linear up to 0.8mg of Turkish red pine cytosolic protein and 0.4 mg cytosolic protein was routinely used. The Turkish red pine GST showed its maximum activity at pH 8.0 in 25 mM phosphate buffer and 42 & / #730 / C. The measurements were carried out at room temperature (RT) of 25 & / #61616 / C. Turkish red pine GST seemed to be saturated at 1 mM CDNB and 1 mM GSH concentrations. The Vmax and Km values of Turkish red pine GST for CDNB was 416nmole/min/mg protein and 0,8 mM, respectively, and for GSH 106.4 nmole/min/mg protein and 0.10 mM, respectively. Turkish red pine cytosol was applied on DEAE-Sepharose fast flow column but almost no purification was achieved with respect GST activity. In order to examine the effects of cold stress on Turkish red pine GST activity, the GST activity was determined in 240 seedlings at &ndash / 3& / #61616 / , 0& / #61616 / and 13 & / #61616 / C environmental temperatures. It was observed that GST activity was the highest at -3& / #730 / C and the lowest at 13& / #730 / C in both cold resistant and sensitive families with the exception of Yaylaalan and Ç / ameli.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604759/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2004 |
| Creators | Boyoglu, Seyhan |
| Contributors | Iscan, Mesude |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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