THE PLANT CELL, Vol 2, Issue 11 1107-1119, Copyright © 1990 by American Society of Plant Biologists

RESEARCH ARTICLES

cDNA Cloning of Carrot Extracellular [beta]-Fructosidase and Its Expression in Response to Wounding and Bacterial Infection

A. Sturm and M. J. Chrispeels
Friedrich Miescher-Institute, Postfach 2543, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland

We isolated a full-length cDNA for apoplastic (extracellular or cell wall-bound) [beta]-fructosidase (invertase), determined its nucleotide sequence, and used it as a probe to measure changes in mRNA as a result of wounding of carrot storage roots and infection of carrot plants with the bacterial pathogen Erwinia carotovora. The derived amino acid sequence of extracellular [beta]-fructosidase shows that it is a basic protein (pl 9.9) with a signal sequence for entry into the endoplasmic reticulum and a propeptide at the N terminus that is not present in the mature protein. Amino acid sequence comparison with yeast and bacterial invertases shows that the overall homology is only about 28%, but that there are short conserved motifs, one of which is at the active site. Maturing carrot storage roots contain barely detectable levels of mRNA for extracellular [beta]-fructosidase and these levels rise slowly but dramatically after wounding with maximal expression after 12 hours. Infection of roots and leaves of carrot plants with E. carotovora results in a very fast increase in the mRNA levels with maximal expression after 1 hour. These results indicate that apoplastic [beta]-fructosidase is probably a new and hitherto unrecognized pathogenesis-related protein [Van Loon, L.C. (1985). Plant Mol. Biol. 4, 111-116]. Suspension-cultured carrot cells contain high levels of mRNA for extracellular [beta]-fructosidase and these levels remain the same whether the cells are grown on sucrose, glucose, or fructose.

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