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Plant and Cell Physiology, 2001, Vol. 42, No. 10 1119-1129
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Low Aquaporin Content and Low Osmotic Water Permeability of the Plasma and Vacuolar Membranes of a CAM Plant Graptopetalum paraguayense: Comparison with Radish

Yuko Ohshima1, Ikuko Iwasaki2, Shinobu Suga1, Masanori Murakami1, Keiko Inoue1 and Masayoshi Maeshima1,3

1 Laboratory of Cell Dynamics, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan 2 Plant Genetic Engineering Laboratory, Biotechnology Institute, Akita Prefectural University, Ohgata, Akita, 010-0444 Japan

Aquaporin facilitates the osmotic water transport across biomembranes and is involved in the transcellular and intracellular water flow in plants. We immunochemically quantified the aquaporin level in leaf plasma membranes (PM) and tonoplast of Graptopetalum paraguayense, a Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant. The aquaporin content in the Graptopetalum tonoplast was approximately 1% of that of radish. The content was calculated to be about 3 µg mg–1 of tonoplast protein. The level of PM aquaporin in Graptopetalum was determined to be less than 20% of that of radish, in which an aquaporin was a major protein of the PM. The PM aquaporin was detected in the mesophyll tissue of Graptopetalum leaf by tissue print immunoblotting. The osmotic water permeability of PM and tonoplast vesicles prepared from both plants was determined with a stopped-flow spectrophotometer. The water permeability of PM was lower than that of the tonoplast in both plants. The Graptopetalum PM vesicles hardly showed water permeability, although the tonoplast showed a relatively high permeability. The water permeability changed depending on the assay temperature and was also partially inhibited by a sulfhydryl reagent. Furthermore, measurement of the rate of swelling and shrinking in different mannitol concentrations revealed that the protoplasts of Graptopetalum showed low water permeability. These results suggest that the low content of aquaporins in PM and tonoplast is one of the causes of the low water permeability of Graptopetalum. The relationship between the water-storage function of succulent leaves of CAM plants and the low aquaporin level is also discussed.

3 Corresponding author: E-mail, maeshima@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp; Fax, +81-52-789-4094.


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