Structural Relationship among the Rice Glutelin Polypeptides
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 81 (3), 748-753
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.81.3.748
Abstract
When the glutelin protein fraction of rice (Oryza sativa L.) seeds was fractionated by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, three size classes of proteins, 51 kilodaltons (kD), 34 to 37 kD, and 21 to 22 kD, as well as a contaminating prolamine polypeptide of 14 kD were detected. Antibodies were raised against these proteins and employed in studies to determine whether a precursor-product relationship existed among the glutelin components. Antibodies of the 34 to 37 kD and 21 to 22 kD polypeptides strongly reacted with the 51 kD protein, and conversely, anti-51 kD protein cross reacted with both of the putative subunits. Immunoprecipitation of in vitro translated products resulted in the synthesis of only the precursor form, indicating that the α and β subunits are proteolytic products of the 51 kD precursor protein. The poly(A)+ RNA directed in vitro translated product was about 2000 daltons larger than both the authentic glutelin precursor and the in vitro translated product from polysome run-off synthesis. Western blot analysis of the 34 to 37 kD and 21 to 22 kD polypeptides partially digested with Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease revealed distinct patterns indicating that these proteins are structurally unrelated. As observed for the glutelins, the rice prolamines are also synthesized as a precursor of 16 kD, 2000 daltons larger than the mature polypeptide. Addition of dog pancreatic microsomal membranes to a wheat germ protein translation system resulted in the processing of the prolamine preprotein but not the preproglutelin to the mature form.Keywords
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