Proteome analysis of digestive fluids in Nepenthes pitchers.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Carnivorous plants have developed strategies to enable growth in nutrient-poor soils. For the genus Nepenthes, this strategy represents producing pitcher-modified leaves that can trap and digest various prey. These pitchers produce a digestive fluid composed of proteins, including hydrolytic enzymes. The focus of this study was on the identification of these proteins.

Methods

In order to better characterize and have an overview of these proteins, digestive fluid was sampled from pitchers at different stages of maturity from five species of Nepenthes (N. mirabilis, N. alata, N. sanguinea, N. bicalcarata and N. albomarginata) that vary in their ecological niches and grew under different conditions. Three complementary approaches based on transcriptomic reso

SUBMITTER: Rottloff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4765550 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature