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Inhibition of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Reproduction in Isolated Tobacco Protoplasts by Means of Pancreatic Ribonuclease
Author(s) -
Zhuravlev Yu. N.,
Pisetskaya N. F.,
Ledneva V. A.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of phytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1439-0434
pISSN - 0931-1785
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0434.1983.tb00025.x
Subject(s) - tobacco mosaic virus , rnase p , ribonuclease , protoplast , biology , pancreatic ribonuclease , virus , bivalent (engine) , biochemistry , biophysics , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , rna , metal , chemistry , organic chemistry , gene
Treatment of protoplasts with RNase solutions (1 — 100 μg/ml) sharply reduced their ability to support TMV reproduction. Treatment of protoplasts with RNase both prior to and after inoculation with the virus, and also treatments of varying duration, had approximately the same effect on inhibiting TMV reproduction; however, the effect became sharply intensified with higher RNase concentrations. The authors assume that the RNase inhibitive effect in protoplasts is ensured by the specific structure of this relatively small positively‐charged macromolecule, not by its enzymic properties. The RNase molecules apparently have a damaging effect on the plasmalemma and possibly on other cell membranes with which the initial stages of TMV reproduction are associated. The development of the RNase damaging effect can be prevented by bivalent metal ions in the incubation medium, especially by calcium and manganese. The protective effect of cations is presumably caused not only by the charge, but by their steric configuration since K + and Mg ++ are ineffective in protecting the protoplasts.