Osmoregulation by Oat Coleoptile Protoplasts (Effect of Auxin).

AUTOR(ES)

Keller, C. P.

RESUMO

The effect of auxin on the physiology of protoplasts from growing oat (Avena sativa L.) coleoptiles was investigated. Protoplasts, isolated iso-osmotically from peeled oat coleoptile segments, were found to swell steadily over many hours. Incubated in 1 mM CaCl2, 10 mM KCl, 10 mM 2-(morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid/1,3-bis-[tris(hydroxymethyl)methylamino]propane, pH 6.5, and mannitol to 300 milliosmolal, protoplasts swelled 28.9% [plus or minus] 2.0 (standard error) after 6 h. Addition of 10 [mu]M indoleacetic acid (IAA) increased swelling to 41.1% [plus or minus] 2.1 (standard error) after 6 h. Swelling (in the absence of IAA) was partially dependent on K+ in the bath medium, whereas auxin-induced swelling was entirely dependent on K+. Replacement of mannitol in the bath by Glc increased swelling (in the absence of IAA) and eliminated auxin-induced swelling. Swelling with or without IAA was inhibited by osmotic shock and was completely reversed by 0.1 mM NaN3. Sodium orthovanadate, applied at 0.5 mM, only gradually inhibited swelling under various conditions but was most effective with protoplasts prepared from tissue preincubated in vanadate. Our data are interpreted to suggest that IAA increases the conductance of the plasma membrane to K+.

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