Methylammonium as a Transport Analog for Ammonium in Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.).
AUTOR(ES)
Kosola, K. R.
RESUMO
Methylammonium (CH3NH3+) has been widely used as an analog of ammonium (NH4+) for examining transport in bacteria and fungi. We compared the kinetics of root CH3NH3+ and NH4+ uptake from solution culture in intact tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum cv T5) plants. Efflux of NH4+ and CH3NH3+ was negligible. The apparent maximum rate of absorption (apparent Vmax) was similar for NH4+ and CH3NH3+, but the apparent affinity (apparent Km) was about 10-fold greater for NH4+ than for CH3NH3+. In characterizing the interaction between NH4+ and CH3NH3+ transport, we used [15N]NH4+ and [14C]CH3NH3+ as well as improved methods for analysis of nonisotopic CH3NH3+ and NH4+. CH3NH3+ acted as an inhibitor of NH4+ influx. Relatively low concentrations of NH4+ strongly inhibited CH3NH3+ influx. Treatments with 1 mM methionine sulfoximine that blocked NH4+ assimilation had little influence on NH4+ inhibition of CH3NH3+ influx. These results suggest that the two ions share a common transport system in tomato, but because this transport system has a much greater affinity for NH4+, CH3NH3+ may be used as a transport analog only when ambient concentrations of NH4+ are very low.
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