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Plant Physiology 69:1439-1443 (1982)
© 1982 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Cyanide-Resistant Respiration in Suspension Cultured Cells of Nicotiana glutinosa L

Michael E. Horn1 and Dan Mertz

Division of Biological Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 62511

The respiration of dark-grown Nicotiana glutinosa L. cells in liquid suspension culture was found to be highly cyanide resistant and salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM) sensitive, indicative of an active alternative respiratory pathway. This was especially true during the lag and logarithmic phases of the 14-day growth cycle. Mitochondria isolated from logarithmically growing cells exhibited active oxidation of malate, succinate, and exogenous NADH. Oxidation of all three substrates had an optimum pH of 6.5 and all were highly resistant to inhibited by cyanide and sensitive to SHAM. Respiratory control was exhibited by all three substrates but only if SHAM was present to block the alternative pathway and divert electrons to the phosphorylating cytochrome pathway. The cyanide-resistant oxidation of exogenous NADH has previously only been associated with Arum spadix mitochondria. Coemergence during evolution of the alternative respiratory pathway and the exogenous NADH dehydrogenase in plant mitochondria as a possible mechanism for removal of cytoplasmic NADH is proposed. Evidence is presented which suggests that mitochondrial assays should be performed at pH 6.5.

1 Present address: Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois, 1102 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801; to whom reprint requests should be addressed.






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