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http://dx.doi.org/10.5352/JLS.2007.17.8.1172

Promotion of Aldehyde Oxidase Activities by Ethanol in Maize (Zea mays) Roots  

Oh, Young-Joo (Department of Molecular Biology, BK21 Graduate Program for RNA Biology, Institute of Nanosensor and Biotechnology, Dankook University)
Park, Woong-June (Department of Molecular Biology, BK21 Graduate Program for RNA Biology, Institute of Nanosensor and Biotechnology, Dankook University)
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Journal of Life Science / v.17, no.8, 2007 , pp. 1172-1175 More about this Journal
Abstract
We observed that exogenously applied ethanol changed the activities of aldehyde oxidases (AO) in the primary roots of maize (Zea mays). The stimulatory effect of ethanol on the aldehyde oxidase activities was concentration dependent; the AO activities were slightly weaker with 0.2 - 0.4% ethanol and stronger with 0.8 - 1.0% ethanol than the level of control. The promotion of AO activities was not explained by the increased transcription of two AO genes in maize. In contrast, ethanol strongly increased the amount of AO proteins, indicating that ethanol enhanced AO activities by promoting the translation. Among three alcohols including ethanol, methanol and isopropanol, only ethanol promoted AO activities. These results suggested that enhancement of AO activities was specific to ethanol, whose level could be naturally increased when the plant roots drove fermentation to overcome low oxygen stresses.
Keywords
Ethanol; aldehyde oxidase; root; maize (Zea mays);
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