Partial Characterization of Oat and Rye Phytochrome 1
AUTOR(ES)
Rice, Harbert V.
RESUMO
Purified oat and rye phytochrome were examined by analytical gel chromatography, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, N-terminal, and amino acid analysis. Purified oat phytochrome had a partition coefficient on Sephadex G-200 (σ200) of 0.350 with an estimated molecular weight of 62,000; sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide electrophoresis gave an equivalent weight estimate. Purified rye phytochrome had a σ200 value of 0.085 with an estimated molecular weight of 375,000; sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis gave a weight estimate of 120,000, indicating a multimer structure for the nondenatured protein. Comparative sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis with purified phycocyanin and allophycocyanin gave a molecular weight estimate of 15,000 for allophycocyanin, and two constituent classes of subunits for phycocyanin with molecular weights of 17,000 and 15,000. Amino acid analysis of oat phytochrome confirmed a previous report; amino acid analysis of rye phytochrome differs markedly from a previous report. Oat phytochome has four detectable N-terminal residues (glutamic acid, serine, lysine, and leucine, or isoleucine); rye phytochrome has two detectable groups (aspartic and glutamic acids). Model experiments subjecting purified rye phytochrome to proteinolysis generate a product with the characteristic spectral and weight properties of oat phytochrome, as it has been described in the literature. It is concluded that the structural characteristics of purified rye phytochrome are likely those of the native protein.
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