1986
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1986.tb00578.x
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Why Do Plants Have Cytochrome P‐450? Detoxification Versus Defence

Abstract: SUMMARYEvidence is presented which suggests that cytochrome P-450, in plants, probably functions as in all other eukaryotic organisms, principally as a detoxification mechanism. In plants this function is largely suppressed during tissue maturation coinciding with cell vacuolation. The consequential accumulation and isolation of potential toxins within vacuoles provides higher plants with an anti-herbivore defence of evolutionary significance.

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“…This lack of accumulation was attributed to the high rate of camphor catabolic activity of suspension cultures (Falk et al, 1990), a process that may mimic the metabolic turnover of camphor produced in the oil glands of the intact plant (Croteau et al, 1984. Altematively, many monoterpenes are toxic to plant suspension cultures (Brown et al, 1987) and the metabolism of camphor by sage cells might thus represent such a detoxification system (Benveniste et al, 1982;Hendry, 1986). Similar detoxification systems are known in animal tissues in which inducible, microsomal Cyt P-450-dependent monooxygenases of broad specificity are involved in xenobiotic metabolism (Walker-Griffin et al, 1979), including the metabolism of dietary monoterpenes (Waller, 1969;Karp and Croteau, 1988).…”
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“…This lack of accumulation was attributed to the high rate of camphor catabolic activity of suspension cultures (Falk et al, 1990), a process that may mimic the metabolic turnover of camphor produced in the oil glands of the intact plant (Croteau et al, 1984. Altematively, many monoterpenes are toxic to plant suspension cultures (Brown et al, 1987) and the metabolism of camphor by sage cells might thus represent such a detoxification system (Benveniste et al, 1982;Hendry, 1986). Similar detoxification systems are known in animal tissues in which inducible, microsomal Cyt P-450-dependent monooxygenases of broad specificity are involved in xenobiotic metabolism (Walker-Griffin et al, 1979), including the metabolism of dietary monoterpenes (Waller, 1969;Karp and Croteau, 1988).…”
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“…Cyt P-450-linked enzymes have been implicated in biosynthetic pathways leading to the synthesis of lignin phenolics, membrane sterols, phytoalexins, and terpenoids (33). It has been postulated that plants have evolved highly specific Cyt P-450-linked secondary pathways to produce defense-related phytoalexins, while animals have evolved parallel less specific, Cyt P-450-linked systems to detoxify ingested phytoalexins and other xenobiotics (11,22 at the expense of the 450 nm peak (25). For this reason the CO-hemoprotein adduct with the 420 nm peak, termed P-420, is often considered to be a degradation product of Cyt P-450.…”
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“…The existence of P450(s) in higher plants was first proven in the early 1970s [36]. Accumulating evidence indicates that there is a multiplicity of P450(s) in plants [19] and they are best known and most studied for their oxygenase activity [1,16,36]. P450(s) have the capacity to attack a vast range of structurally unrelated chemicals to transform them into more polar, soluble products, diminishing or suppressing their toxicity [10].…”
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