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Hartig, Katja ; Beck, Erwin:
Assessment of lovastatin application as a tool in probing cytokinin-mediated cell cycle regulation.
In: Physiologia Plantarum.
Bd. 125
(2005)
Heft 2
.
- S. 260-267.
ISSN 1399-3054
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3054.2005.00556.x
Abstract
Lovastatin, a potent inhibitor of the mevalonate pathway, has been used in plant cell cycle studies to eliminate the cytosolic cytokinin biosynthesis. However, several implications can blur the results as cytokinins may be alternatively formed from isopentenylpyrophosphate produced by the plastid 1-deoxy-xylulose 5-phosphate pathway and because the endogenous cytokinin levels oscillate considerably in the course of a cell cycle. In the work presented here short and long term effects of lovastatin on suspension-cultured Nicotiana tabacum (L.) BY-2 cells were differentiated. The short term experiments revealed a fast action of lovastatin, resulting in a significantly, though not completely decreased content of endogenous cytokinins that became visible already after 10 min and was most pronounced after 30 min. But the impact of lovastatin on cell cycle progression depended also on the phase of the cell-cycle at which it was administered. Lowering of the cytokinin level during the early S phase when the endogenous cytokinin levels increase, delayed the S/G2 transition, whereas the same treatment in the late S phase, when the cellular cytokinin concentrations had already started to decrease, promoted it. Incubation periods longer than 48 h resulted in about 50 % loss of viable of the cells and also in a reduced capability of division of the survivors. These cells, later on resumed cell division. A second treatment with lovastatin of that culture again killed about 50 % of the cells, but the surviving cells showed as faster re growth. In conclusion lovastatin appears as a useful inhibitor of cytokinin biosynthesis in short term studies, but its use in long term experiments may create complex effects and therefore requires substantial caution.
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| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Biologie > Lehrstuhl Pflanzenphysiologie Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren > Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung - BayCEER Fakultäten Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Biologie Forschungseinrichtungen Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
| Eingestellt am: | 14 Jul 2015 06:22 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 14 Jul 2015 06:22 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/16465 |