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pH in Vacuoles Isolated from Castor Bean Endosperm ¹

Research Institute for Biochemical Regulation, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464, Japan, Thimann Laboratories, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064

Vacuoles were prepared from germinating castor bean endosperm (Ricinus communis var Hale) and purified by filtration through a cotton layer under physiological osmolarity. The purity of vacuoles prepared by this method was comparable with that prepared by a sucrose step gradient centrifugation reported in a previous paper (Nishimura, Beevers 1978 Plant Physiol 62: 44-48). It was shown by assays of marker enzymes that the final preparation contained trace contamination of other organelles (glyoxysomes, mitochondria, and endoplasmic reticulum) and the cytosol. The isolated vacuoles were stained with neutral red, indicating that the intravacuolar pH is acidic. Intravacuolar pH of isolated vacuoles was determined by measuring the distribution of [¹⁴C]methylamine in the vacuoles and by directly measuring the pH of vacuolar extracts. The pH of isolated vacuolar extracts was 5.7 to 5.9. Similar values were obtained by the methylamine method and it was shown that intravacuolar pH increased as the pH of the medium was increased.

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