BACKGROUND Pollen tubes grow by transferring chemical energy from stored cellular starch and newly assimilated sugars into ATP. This drives myriad processes essential for cell elongation, directly or through the creation of ion gradients. Respiration plays a central role in generating and regulating this energy flow and thus in the success of plant reproduction. Pollen tubes are easily grown in...

introduction: nowadays, due to mechanization of life, consumers need of food which they spent little time for preparation, so fresh cut industry is growing rapidly in the world. these products had strong growth since 1940, and in 2013, most sales of fresh cut fruit related to apples, against 21.8 percent. minimal processing operations include grading, washing, sorting, slicing, chopping and the...

Treatment with solutions containing high concentrations of NaCl (200 or 300 mM) induced cell death in rice (Oryza sativa L.) roots, as well as the application of exogenous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Moreover, the pretreatment with dimethylthiourea (DMTU), a scavenger of H2O2, partially alleviated the root cell death induced by 200 mM NaCl. These observations suggest that the cell death of rice r...

In this study, we report the biochemical characterization of the deafness-associated mitochondrial 12S rRNA C1494T mutation using 27 cybrid cell lines constructed by transferring mitochondria from 9 lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from a Chinese family into human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-less (rho degrees) cells. Six cybrids derived from two asymptomatic members, and nine cybrids derived fro...

Previous studies have shown that the human salivary antifungal peptide histatin 5 is taken up by Candida albicans cells and associates intracellularly with mitochondria. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the biological consequence of this specific subcellular targeting. Histatin 5 inhibited respiration of isolated C. albicans mitochondria as well as the respiration of intact b...

Previous studies on isolated thyroid cell membranes (1) revealed the presence of an adenosinr triphosphatase (ATPase) activity in these membranes nhicsh showed features characteristic of Na+ and K+ transport by intact cells, and which was enhanced by thyrotropin (TSH’). This ATPase activity was stimulated by Na+ and K+ and required both ions together, was inhibited by ouabain, was Mg++-requirin...

Understanding how soil respiration (Rs) and its source components respond to climate warming is crucial to improve model prediction of climate-carbon (C) feedback. We conducted a manipulation experiment by warming and clipping in a prairie dominated by invasive winter annual Bromus japonicas in Southern Great Plains, USA. Infrared radiators were used to simulate climate warming by 3 °C and clip...

Enzyme coding genes that integrate information for anaerobic respiration in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 were used as input for constructing an AND logic gate. The absence of one or both genes inhibited electrochemically-controlled anaerobic respiration, while wild type bacteria were capable of accepting electrons from an electrode for DMSO reduction.

Extracellular measurement of oxygen consumption and acid production is a simple and powerful way to monitor rates of respiration and glycolysis(1). Both mitochondrial (respiration) and non-mitochondrial (other redox) reactions consume oxygen, but these reactions can be easily distinguished by chemical inhibition of mitochondrial respiration. However, while mitochondrial oxygen consumption is an...