Claim · model-written summary
Increasing ALA concentration during assay increased Cd inhibition of ALAD from 17% to 53%.
- Treatment
- increasing ALA concentratione0
- Outcome
- % inhibition of enzyme activity by Cde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 17% to 53%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Inclusion of varying concentrations of ALA during assay also affected the % inhibition of enzyme activity by Cd showing an increased inhibition from 17% to 53% with increasing ALA concentration”
t0“maize”
Title
J. Sarangthem; M. Jain; R. Gadre Plant Soil and Environment 2011. doi:10.17221/45/2011-pse
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Cadmium chloride inhibited ALAD activity in greening maize leaf segments.
- Intervention effect Cadmium chloride inhibited total chlorophylls in greening maize leaves.
- Intervention effect Cadmium significantly reduced ALA content only at 0.5 mmol.
- Intervention effect Cadmium treatment decreased maize leaf protein content.
- Intervention effect Cadmium treatment significantly increased tissue cadmium accumulation.
- Association Leaf Cd accumulation correlated with ALAD activity with R-squared 0.727.
- Association Leaf Cd accumulation correlated with ALA content with R-squared 0.885.
- Association Leaf Cd accumulation correlated with total chlorophylls with R-squared 0.902.
- Association Leaf Cd accumulation correlated with proteins with R-squared 1.00.
- Intervention effect Glutamine reduced Cd inhibition of ALAD to 25%.
- Intervention effect NH4NO3 reduced Cd inhibition of ALAD to 16%.
- Intervention effect Glutathione reduced Cd inhibition of ALAD to 2%.
- Intervention effect Levulinic acid reduced Cd inhibition of ALAD to 4%.
- Intervention effect Essential metal ions Mg, Zn, and Mn reduced Cd inhibition of ALAD activity.
- Mechanism The authors suggested Cd inhibits ALAD by disrupting ALA binding or thiol interactions.