Abstract
Sucrose efflux from the vacuole of mobilizing red-beet (Beta vulgaris L.) hypocotyl cells was investigated using purified tonoplast vesicles. Tonoplast vesicle purity was assured by the immunoreactivity to antibodies raised against the vacuolar ATPase and by the strong inhibition exhibited by the H+-ATPase to bafilomycin-A and NO3-. Inhibition of the H+-ATPase by vanadate and azide was negligible. Sucrose was loaded into tonoplast vesicles by using the pH-jump method of energization. Addition of ATP to sucrose-loaded vesicles in the presence of bafilomycin-A resulted in efflux of a significant amount of sucrose. During ATP-induced sucrose efflux, bafilomycin-insensitive ATPase activity increased significantly with no increase in H+-translocating activity. The additional bafilomycin-A insensitive ATPase activity observed in sucrose-loaded vesicles was completely inhibited by vanadate as was the efflux of sucrose. Similar to vanadate, thapsigargin was also inhibitory to sucrose efflux and to the bafilomycin-A insensitive ATPase activity. The data indicate that vacuolar sucrose can be actively mobilized by a specific ATP-dependent efflux mechanism.
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