Plant Physiology 93:1042-1048 (1990)
© 1990 American Society of Plant Biologists
Development and Growth Regulation
Xyloglucan Oligosaccharides Promote Growth and Activate Cellulase: Evidence for a Role of Cellulase in Cell Expansion 1
Gordon J. McDougall2 and
Stephen C. Fry
Department of Botany, University of Edinburgh, The King's Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, United Kingdom
Oligosaccharides produced by the action of fungal cellulase on xyloglucans promoted the elongation of etiolated pea (Pisum sativum L.) stem segments in a straight-growth bioassay designed for the determination of auxins. The oligosaccharides were most active at about 1 micromolar. We tested the relative growth-promoting activities of four HPLC-purified oligosaccharides which shared a common glucose4· xylose3 (XG7) core. The substituted oligosaccharides XG8 (glucose4· xylose3· galactose) and XG9n (glucose4· xylose3· galactose2) were more effective than XG7 itself and XG9 (glucose4· xylose3· galactose· fucose). The same oligosaccharides also promoted the degradation, assayed viscometrically, of xyloglucan by an acidic cellulase from bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) leaves. The oligosaccharides were highly active at 10–4 molar, causing up to a fourfold increase in activity, but the effect was still detectable at 1 micromolar. Those oligosaccharides (XG8 and XG9n) which best promoted growth, stimulated cellulase activity to the greatest extent. The oligosaccharides did not stimulate the action of the cellulase in an assay based on the conversion of [3H]xyloglucan to ethanol-soluble fragments. This suggest that the oligosaccharides enhanced the midchain hydrolysis of xyloglucan molecules (which would rapidly reduce the viscosity of the solution), at the expense of cleavage near the termini (which would yield ethanol-soluble products). We suggest that the promotion of midchain xyloglucan cleavage, by loosening the primary cell wall matrix, explains the promotion of growth by the oligosaccharides.
2 Present address: Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, U.K.
1 Supported by the U.K. Agricultural and Food Research Council.
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