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Phytochrome in Green Tissue: Spectral and Immunochemical Evidence for Two Distinct Molecular Species of Phytochrome in Light-grown Avena Sativa L

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Journal Planta
Specialty Biology
Date 2013 Nov 20
PMID 24249601
Citations 33
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A method is described for the extraction of phytochrome from chlorophyllous shoots of Avena sativa L. Poly(ethyleneimine) and salt fractionation are used to reduce chlorophyll and to increase the phytochrome concentration sufficiently to permit spectral and immunochemical analyses. The phototransformation difference spectrum of this phytochrome is distinct from that of phytochrome from etiolated shoots in that the maximum in the red region of the difference spectrum is shifted about 15 nm to a shorter wavelength. Immunochemical probing of electroblotted proteins (Western blotting), using a method sensitive to 50 pg, demonstrates the presence of two polypeptides in green tissue that bind antiphytochrome antibodies: a predominant species with a relative molecular mass (Mr) of 118000 and a lesser-abundant 124000-Mr polypeptide. Under nondenaturing conditions all of the 124000-Mr species is immunoprecipitable, but the 118000-Mr species remains in the supernatant. Peptide mapping and immunochemical analysis with monoclonal antibodies show that the 118000-Mr species has structural features that differ from etiolated-oat phytochrome. Mixing experiments show that these structural differences are intrinsic to the molecular species from these two tissues rather than being the result of post-homogenization modifications or interfering substances in the green-tissue extracts. Together the data indicate that the phytochrome that predominates in green-tissue has a polypeptide distinct from the well-characterized molecule from etiolated tissue.

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