Mode of Methomyl and Bipolaris maydis (race T) Toxin in Uncoupling Texas Male-Sterile Cytoplasm Corn Mitochondria
Open Access
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 77 (4) , 912-916
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.77.4.912
Abstract
Bipolaris maydis race T toxin (BmT), and its functional analog, methomyl, uncoupled Texas male-sterile (T) cytoplasm mitochondria by decreasing the resistance of the inner membrane to protons. However, unlike protonophoric or ionophoric agents, BmT toxin and methomyl induced irreversible swelling. Packed volume measurements showed that mitochondrial volume was irreversibly increased by methomyl and BmT toxin indicating that mitochondria no longer functioned as differentially permeable osmometers. The decreased resistance of inner mitochondrial membranes to protons and the loss of osmotic volume regulation suggests that methomyl and BmT toxin induced the formation of hydrophilic pores in T mitochondrial inner membranes.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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