Nickel and Al-excess inhibit nitrate reductase but upregulate activities of aminating glutamate dehydrogenase and aminotransferases in growing rice seedlings

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-261

  Mishra, Pallavi ^a   Dubey, R S ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Nickel; Nitrogen assimilation; Oryza sativa L; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 79958210022     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: 15735087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10725-011-9566-1     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Astolfi S, Zuchi S, Passera C (2004) Role of sulphur availability on cadmium-induced changes of nitrogen and sulphur metabolism in maize (Zea mays L.) leaves. J Plant Physiol 161: 795-802.
2. Balestrasee KB, Gallego SM, Tomaro ML (2006a) Aluminium stress affects nitrogen fixation and assimilation in soybean (Glycine max L.). Plant Growth Regul 48: 271-281.
3. Balestrasee KB, Gallego SM, Tomaro ML (2006b) Oxidation of the enzymes involved in nitrogen assimilation plays an important role in the cadmium induced toxicity in soybean plants. Plant Soil 284: 187-194.
4. Balestrasse KB, Benavides MP, Gallego SM, Tomaro ML (2003) Effect of cadmium stress on nitrogen metabolism in nodules and roots of soybean plants. Funct Plant Biol 30: 57-64.
5. Bernard SM, Habash Z (2009) The importance of cytosolic glutamine synthetase in nitrogen assimilation and recycling. New Phytol 182: 608-620.
6. Boyer PD, Mills RC, Fromm HJ (1959) Hypotheses for and some kinetic studies with glutamine synthetase and acetate thiokinase. Arch Biochem Biophys 81: 249-263.
7. Bradford MM (1976) A rapid and sensitive method for quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal Biochem 72: 248-254.
8. Chaffei C, Pageau K, Suzuki A, Gouia H, Ghorbel MH, Masclaux-Daubresse C (2004) Cadmium toxicity induced changes in nitrogen management in Lycopersicon esculentum leading to a metabolic safeguard through an amimo acid storage strategy. Plant Cell Physiol 45: 1681-1693.
9. Chien H-F, Kao CH (2000) Accumulation of ammonium in rice leaves in response to excess cadmium. Plant Sci 156: 111-115.
10. de Sousa CAF, Sodek L (2003) Alanine metabolism and alanine aminotransferase activity in soyabean (Glycine max) during hypoxia of the root system and subsequent return to normoxia. Environ Exp Bot 50: 1-8.
11. Dobermann A, Fairhurst T (2000) Rice: nutrient disorders and nutrient management. Potash and Phosphate Institute of Canada (PPIC) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, pp 135-138.
12. Dubey RS, Pessarakli M (2002) Physiological mechanisms of nitrogen absorption and assimilating in plants under stressful conditions. In: Pessarakli M (ed) Handbook of crop physiology. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp 637-655.
13. Ferrario S, Valadier MH, Morat-Gaudry J-F, Foyer CH (1995) Effects of constitutive expression of nitrate reductase in transgenic Nicotiana plumbaginifolia L. in response to varying nitrogen supply. Planta 196: 288-294.
14. Fontaine JX, Saladino F, Agrimonti C, Bedu M, Terce-Laforgue T, Tetu T, Hirel B, Restivo FM, Dubois F (2006) Control of the synthesis and subcellular targeting of the two GDH genes products in leaves and stems of Nicotiana plumbaginifolia and Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol 47: 410-418.
15. Forde BG, Lea PJ (2007) Glutamate in plants: metabolism, regulation, and signalling. J Exp Bot 58: 2339-2358.
16. Gajewska E, Sklodowska M (2005) Antioxidative responses and proline level in leaves and roots of pea plants subjected to nickel stress. Acta Physiol Plant 27: 329-339.
17. Gajewska E, Wielanek M, Bergier K, Sklodowska M (2009) Nickel-induced depression of nitrogen assimilation in wheat roots. Acta Physiol Plant 31: 1291-1300.
18. Hageman RH, Flesher D (1960) Nitrate reductase activity in corn seedlings as affected by light and nitrate content of nutrient media. Physiol Plant 35: 700-708.
19. Hassan MJ, Zhang G, Zhu Z (2008) Influence of cadmium toxicity on plant growth and nitrogen uptake in rice as affected by nitrogen form. J Plant Nutr 31: 251-262.
20. Jha AB, Dubey RS (2004) Arsenic exposure alters the activities of key nitrogen assimilatory enzymes in growing rice seedlings. Plant Growth Regul 43: 259-268.
21. Kevresan S, Petrovic N, Popovic M, Kandrac J (2001) Nitrogen and protein metabolism in young pea plants as affected by different concentrations of nickel, cadmium, lead, and molybdenum. J Plant Nutr 24: 1633-1644.
22. Kumar RG, Dubey RS (1999) Glutamine synthetase isoforms from rice seedlings: effects of stress on enzyme activity and the protective roles of osmolytes. J Plant Physiol 155: 118-121.
23. Lam HM, Koschigano K, Oliveira IC, Melo-Oliveira R, Coruzzi GM (1996) The molecular-genetics of nitrogen assimilation into amino acids in higher plants. Ann Rev Plant Physiol Plant Mol Biol 47: 569-593.
24. 2 deprivation, but not in darkness. Plant Physiol 115: 623-630.
25. Loulakakis KA, Roubelakis-Angelakis KA (1992) Ammonium-induced increase in NADH-glutamate dehydrogenase activity is caused by de novo synthesis of the α-subunit. Planta 187: 322-327.
26. Maheshwari R, Dubey RS (2009) Nickel-induced oxidative stress and the role of antioxidant defence in rice seedlings. Plant Growth Regul 59: 37-49.
27. Malik CP, Singh MB (1980) Plant enzymology and histoenzymology, text manual. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
28. Matraszek R (2008) Nitrate reductase activity of two leafy vegetables as affected by nickel and different nitrogen forms. Acta Physiol Plant 30: 361-370.
29. Miyashita Y, Good AG (2008) Glutamate deamination by glutamate dehydrogenase plays a central role in amino acid catabolism in plants. Plant Signal Behav 3: 842-843.
30. Rana NK, Mohanpuria P, Yadav SK (2008) Expression of tea cytosolic glutamine synthetase is tissue specific and induced by cadmium and salt stress. Biol Plant 52: 361-364.
31. Restivo FM (2004) Molecular cloning of glutamate dehydrogenase genes of Nicotiana plumaginifolia: structure and regulation of their expression by physiological and stress conditions. Plant Sci 166: 971-982.
32. Roitto M, Rautio P, Julkunen-Tiito R, Kukkola E, Huttunen S (2005) Changes in the concentrations of phenolics and photosynthates in scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) seedlings exposed to nickel and copper. Environ Pollut 137: 603-609.
33. Seregin IV, Kozhevnikova AD (2006) Physiological role of nickel and its toxic effects on higher plants. Russ J Plant Physiol 53: 257-277.
34. Sharma P, Dubey RS (2005) Modulation of nitrate reductase activity in rice seedlings under aluminium toxicity and water stress: role of osmolytes as enzyme protectant. J Plant Physiol 162: 854-864.
35. Sharma P, Dubey RS (2007) Involvement of oxidative stress and role of antioxidative defense system in growing rice seedlings exposed to toxic concentrations of aluminum. Plant Cell Rep 26: 2027-2038.
36. Sharma P, Dubey RS (2010) Metal toxicity in plants: uptake of metals, metabolic alterations and tolerance mechanisms. In: Hemantaranjan A (ed) Advances in plant physiology, vol 11. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, pp 53-106.
37. Sharma RK, Agrawal M, Marshall F (2007) Heavy metal contamination of soil and vegetables in suburban areas of Varanasi, India. Ecotox Environ Saf 66: 258-266.
38. Skopelitis DS, Paranychianakis NV, Paschalidis KA, Pliakonis ED, Delis ID, Yakoumakis DI, Kouvarakis A, Papadakis AK, Stephanou EG, Roubelakis-Angelakis KA (2006) Abiotic stress generates ROS that signal expression of anionic glutamate dehydrogenases to form glutamate for proline synthesis in tobacco and grapevine. Plant Cell 18: 2767-2781.
39. Sukalovic VHT (1990) Properties of glutamate dehydrogenase from developing maize endosperm. Physiol Plant 80: 238-242.
40. Vajpayee P, Tripathi RD, Rai UN, Ali MB, Singh SN (2000) Chromium (VI) accumulation reduces chlorophyll biosynthesis, nitrate reductase activity and protein content in Nymphaea alba L. Chemosphere 41: 1075-1082.
41. van Assche F, Clijsters H (1990) Effects of metals on enzyme activity in plants. Plant Cell Environ 13: 195-206.