Metabolic fate of guanosine in higher plants

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 909-916

  Ashihara, Hiroshi ^a   Takasawa, Yoko ^a   Suzuki, Takeo ^b  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Camellia sinensis; Catharanthus roseus; Guanine nucleotide; Guanosine; Metabolism; Vigna mungo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030870447     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1000417.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Ashihara, H. 1983. Changes in activities of purine salvage and ureide synthesis during germination of black gram (Phaseolus mungo) seeds. - Z. Pflanzenphysiol. 113: 47-60.
2. 14C]hypoxanthine in higher plants. - Z. Pflanzenphysiol. 104: 443-458.
3. _, Yabuki, N. & Mitsui, K. 1990. A high-performance liquid chromatography method for separation of purine bases, nucleosides and ureides: Application to studies on purine catabolism in higher plants. - J. Biochem. Biophys. Methods 21: 59-63.
4. _, Monteiro, A. M., Gillies, F. M. & Crozier, A. 1996. Biosynthesis of caffeine in leaves of coffee (Coffea arabica L.). - Plant Physiol. 111: 747-753.
5. 2-fixing nodules of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata). - J. Plant Physiol. 134: 447-452.
6. Barankiewicz, J. & Paszkowski, J. 1980. Purine metabolism in mesophyll protoplasts of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) leaves. - Biochem. J. 186: 343-350.
7. Combes, A., Lafleuriel, J. & Le Floc'h, F. 1989. The inosine-guanosine kinase activity of mitochondria in tubers of Jerusalem artichoke. - Plant Physiol. Biochem. 27: 729-736.
8. Guranowski, A. 1979. Plant adenosine kinase: Purification and some properties of the enzyme from Lupinus luteus seeds. - Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 196: 220-226.
9. _ 1982. Purine catabolism in plants. Purification and some properties of inosine nucleosidase from yellow lupin (Lupinus luteus L.) seeds. - Plant Physiol. 70: 344-349.
10. _ & Barankiewicz, J. 1979. Purine salvage in cotyledons of germinating lupin seeds. - FEBS Lett. 104: 95-98.
11. Henderson, J. F. & Paterson, A. R. P. 1973. Nucleotide Metabolism - An Introduction. - Academic Press, New York, NY. pp. 1-340. ISBN 0-8451-5008-1.
12. Hirose, F. & Ashihara, H. 1983. Comparison of purine metabolism in suspension-cultured cells of different growth phases and stem tissue of Catharanthus roseus. - Z. Naturforsch. 38c: 375-381.
13. _ & Ashihara, H. 1984. Changes in activity of enzymes involved in purine 'salvage' and nucleic acid degradation during growth of Catharanthus roseus cells in suspension culture. - Physiol. Plant. 60: 532-538.
14. Hove-Jensen, B. & Nygaard, P. 1989. Role of guanosine kinase in the utilization of guanosine for nucleotide synthesis in Escherichia coli. - J. Gen. Microbiol. 135: 1263-1273.
15. Kamboj, R. K. & Jackson, J. F. 1987. Purine nucleoside transport in petunia pollen is an active, carrier-mediated system not sensitive to nitrobenzylthioinosine and not renewed during pollen tube growth. - Plant Physiol. 84: 688-691.
16. Kombrink, E. & Beevers, H. 1983. Transport of purine and pyrimidine bases and nucleosides from endosperm to cotyledons in germinating castor bean seedlings. - Plant Physiol. 73: 370-376.
17. Le Floc'h, F. & Lafleuriel, J. 1981, L'hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase des pousses de topinambour Helianthus tuberosus. - Z. Pflanzenphysiol. 104: 331-340.
18. Linsmaier, E. M. & Skoog, F. 1965. Organic growth factor requirement of tobacco tissue culture. - Physiol. Plant. 18: 100-127.
19. Mager, J. & Magasanik, B. 1960. Guanosine 5′-phosphate reductase and its role in the interconversion of purine nucleotides. - J. Biol. Chem. 235: 1474-1478.
20. Meyer, R. & Wagner, K. G. 1985a. Nucleotide pools in suspension-cultured cells of Datura innoxia, I. Changes during growth of the batch culture. - Planta 166: 439-445.
21. _ & Wagner, K. G. 1985b. Analysis of the nucleotide pool during growth of suspension cultured cells of Nicotiana tabacum by high performance liquid chromalography. - Physiol. Plant. 65: 439-445.
22. Miller, W. H. & Miller, R. L. 1991. Guanosine kinase from Trichomonas vaginalis. - Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 48: 39-46.
23. Nazario, G. M. & Lovatt, C. J. 1993. Regulation of purine metabolism in intact leaves of Coffea arabica. - Plant Physiol. 103: 1195-1201.
24. Negishi, O., Ozawa, T. & Imagawa, H. 1992. Biosynthesis of caffeine from purine nucleotides in tea plant. - Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 56: 499-503.
25. _, Ozawa, T. & Imagawa, H. 1994. Guanosine deaminase and guanine deaminase from tea leaves. - Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 58: 1277-1281.
26. Nguyen, J. 1986. Plant xanthine dehydrogenase: Its distribution, properties and function. - Physiol.Vég. 24: 263-281.
27. Nobusawa, E. & Ashihara, H. 1983. Purine metabolism in cotyledons and embryonic axes of black gram (Phaseolus mungo L.) seedlings. - Int. J. Biochem. 15: 1059-1065.
28. Suzuki, T., Ashihara, H. & Waller, G. R. 1992. Purine and purine alkaloid metabolism in Camellia and Coffea plants. - Phytochemistry 31: 2575-2584.
29. Thomas, R. J. & Schrader, L. E. 1981. Ureide metabolism in higher plants. - Phytochemistry 20: 361-370.
30. Turner, D. H. & Turner, J. F. 1961. Adenylic deaminase of pea seeds. - Biochem. J. 79: 143-147.
31. Wagner, K. G. & Backer, A. I. 1992. Dynamics of nucleotides in plants studied on a cellular basis. - In International Review of Cytology, Vol. 134 (K. W. Jeon and M. Friedlander, eds), pp. 1-84. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-12-364534-4.
32. Yabuki, N. & Ashihara, H. 1991. Catabolism of adenine nucleotides in suspension-cultured plant cells. - Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1073: 474-480.
33. _ & Ashihara, H. 1992. AMP deaminase and the control of adenylate catabolism in suspension-cultured Catharanthus roseus cells. - Phytochemistry 31: 1905-1909.
34. Yoshino, M. & Murakami, K. 1980. AMP deaminase from spinach leaves. Purification and some regulatory properties. - Z. Pflanzenphysiol. 99: 331-338.