Biophysical Journal 63: 1654-1658 (1992)
© 1992 the Biophysical Society

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Probing water compartments and membrane permeability in plant cells by ¹H NMR relaxation measurements

Department of Molecular Physics, Agricultural University, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands

ABSTRACT

¹H NMR relaxation times (T₁ and T₂) in parenchyma tissue of apple can identify three populations of water with different relaxation characteristics. By following the uptake of Mn²⁺ ions in the tissue it is shown that the observed relaxation times originate from particular water compartments: the vacuole, the cytoplasm, and the cell wall/extracellular space.

Proton exchange between these compartments is controlled by the plasmalemma and tonoplast membranes. During the Mn²⁺ penetration experiment, conditions occur that cause the relaxation times of protons of cytoplasmic water to be much shorter than their residence time in the cytoplasm. Then the tonoplast permeability coefficient P_d for water can be calculated from the vacuolar T₁ and T₂ values to be 2.44 10^-5 m·s^-1.

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