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Reynolds PH, Boland MJ, Blevins DG, et al. Enzymes of amide and ureide biogenesis in developing soybean nodules. Plant Physiol. 1982;69(6):1334-8doi: 10.1104/pp.69.6.1334.
Reynolds, P. H., Boland, M. J., Blevins, D. G., Schubert, K. R., & Randall, D. D. (1982). Enzymes of amide and ureide biogenesis in developing soybean nodules. Plant physiology, 69(6), 1334-8. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.69.6.1334
Reynolds, P H, et al. "Enzymes of amide and ureide biogenesis in developing soybean nodules." Plant physiology vol. 69,6 (1982): 1334-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.69.6.1334
Reynolds PH, Boland MJ, Blevins DG, Schubert KR, Randall DD. Enzymes of amide and ureide biogenesis in developing soybean nodules. Plant Physiol. 1982 Jun;69(6):1334-8. doi: 10.1104/pp.69.6.1334. PMID: 16662397; PMCID: PMC426412.
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Plant Physiol. 1982 Jun;69(6):1334-8. doi: 10.1104/pp.69.6.1334.

Enzymes of amide and ureide biogenesis in developing soybean nodules.

Plant physiology

P H Reynolds, M J Boland, D G Blevins, K R Schubert, D D Randall

Affiliations

  1. Department of Agronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211.

PMID: 16662397 PMCID: PMC426412 DOI: 10.1104/pp.69.6.1334

Abstract

Amide and ureide biogenic enzymes were measured in the plant fraction of soybean (Glycine max) nodules during the period 11 to 23 days after inoculation with Rhizobium japonicum (USDA 3I1b142). Enzymes involved in the initial assimilation of ammonia, i.e. glutamine synthetase, glutamate synthase, and aspartate aminotransferase, showed substantial increases in their specific activities over the time course. These increases paralleled the induction of nitrogenase activity in the bacteroid and leghemoglobin synthesis in the plant fraction. The specific activity of asparagine synthetase, however, showed a rapid decline after an initial increase in specific activity. Following the initial increases in the ammonia assimilatory enzymes, there was an increase in the activity of 5-phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase, the enzyme which catalyzes the first committed step of de novo purine biosynthesis. This was followed by a dramatic increase in the purine oxidative enzymes, xanthine dehydrogenase and uricase. Smaller increases were observed in the activities of enzymes associated with the supply of metabolites to the purine biosynthetic pathway: phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, serine hydroxymethylase, and methylene tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase.The concentration of asparagine in the plant fraction decreased at the same time as the observed decrease in asparagine synthetase activity. This was followed by a recovery in plant fraction levels of asparagine in the presence of a continuing fall in the glutamine concentration and continued low asparagine synthetase activity.The data presented are consistent with initial assimilation of ammonia into glutamine and aspartate, which are metabolized by an elevation of endogenous purine biosynthetic enzymes, and then, by the induction of a specific group of purine oxidative enzymes, directed to allantoic acid production.

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