Wheat embryo ribonucleates XI. Conserved mRNA in dry wheat embryos and its relation to protein synthesis during early imbibition

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 365-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Cuming ◽  
B. G. Lane

It has been found that bulk poiy(A)-rich RNA from dry wheat embryos is broadly hetero-disperse when examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The poly(A)-rich RNA from dry wheat embryos has been translated in a cell-free protein-synthesizing system from the same commerically supplied, roller-milled wheat embryos. Compatible with the electrophoretic heterodispersity observed for poly(A)-rich RNA, the radioactive products of its cell-free translation, when examined by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, have mobilities that are broadly coincident with the many dye-stained (nonradioactive) proteins present in wheat extracts. With due allowance for the limitations of the cell-free system, which is known to translate, selectively, lower molecular-weight species of mRNA, it has been concluded that the conserved poly(A)-rich mRNA in dry wheat embryos probably has the translational capacity required to account for the highly eclectic protein synthesis that we have observed during early (40-min) imbibition of viable wheat embryos.

1980 ◽  
Vol 185 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Barbieri ◽  
M Zamboni ◽  
L Montanaro ◽  
S Sperti ◽  
F Stirpe

1. The subunits were isolated of modeccin (subsequently referred to as modeccin 4B), the toxin purified from the roots of Adenia digitata by affinity chromatography on Sepharose 4B [Gasperi-Campani, Barbieri, Lorenzoni, Montanaro, Sperti, Bonetti & Stirpe (1978) Biochem J. 174, 491-496]. They are an A subunit (mol.wt. 26 000), which inhibits protein synthesis, and a B subunit (mol.wt. 31 000), which binds to cells. Both sununits, as well as intact modeccin, gave single bands on sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis, but showed some heterogeneity on isoelectric focusing and on polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis at pH 9.5. 2. A second form of modeccin, not retained by Sepharose 4B, was purified by affinity chromatography on acid-treated Sepharose 6B: this form is subsequently termed modeccin 6B 3. Modeccin 6B has a molecular weight indistinguishable from that of modeccin 4B, and consists of two subunits of mol.wts. 27 000 and 31 000, joined by a disulphide bond. The subunits were not isolated because of their high insolubility in the absence of sodium dodecyl sulphate. 4. As compared with modeccin 4B, modeccin 6B is slightly less toxic to animals, does not agglutinate erythrocytes, and is a more potent inhibitor of protein synthesis in a lysate of rabbit reticulocytes, giving 50% inhibition at the concentration of 0.31 microgram/ml.


1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 503 ◽  
Author(s):  
SL Castle ◽  
PJ Randall

The effects of sulfur deficiency on the synthesis and accumulation of polypeptides in the developing wheat grain between 6 and 36 days after anthesis were examined by sodium dodecyl sul- fate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Wheat grain proteins were divided into two groups based on their solubility characteristics: (a) salt-soluble, and (b) salt-insoluble. Sulfur deficiency resulted in changes in the synthesis and accumulation of both groups of polypeptides, but the changes were more pronounced in the salt-insoluble group. In neither case were the changes as dramatic as those reported previously for sulfur deficient legume and barley seeds. In sulfur-deficient wheat plants, storage protein synthesis in developing seeds was detectable earlier than in plants grown with adequate sulfur.


1985 ◽  
Vol 226 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Fujiki ◽  
R A Rachubinski ◽  
R M Mortensen ◽  
P B Lazarow

The site of synthesis and induction by clofibrate of peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase (acetyl-CoA acyltransferase; EC 2.3.1.16) was investigated. Free and membrane-bound polyribosomal RNA species from the livers of normal rats and rats treated with clofibrate, a hypolipidaemic drug that causes marked proliferation of peroxisomes, were translated in a nuclease-treated rabbit reticulocyte-lysate cell-free protein-synthesizing system with [35S]methionine as label. The cell-free translation products were immunoprecipitated with monospecific X rabbit anti-thiolase serum and analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and fluorography. Thiolase mRNA was found predominantly in free polyribosomes, in both normal and clofibrate-treated rats. Clofibrate treatment increased mRNA activity for thiolase approx. 20-fold. The translation product of clofibrate-induced thiolase mRNA migrated slightly faster in sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis than did the translation product of normal thiolase mRNA. Both the normal and the clofibrate-induced translation products were approx. 6000 Da larger than the 41000-Da subunit of the purified enzyme. Immunoblot analysis of liver homogenates, isolated peroxisomes and the purified enzyme indicated that the thiolase subunit was approx. 41000 Da in all samples, ruling out proteolysis during the purification of thiolase. Thiolase biogenesis thus differs from that of rat liver peroxisomal proteins studied previously in that it is synthesized as a larger precursor, implying post-translational import of thiolase into peroxisomes with proteolytic processing. Clofibrate apparently alters the size as well as the amount of the translation product.


1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 429-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Faber ◽  
S. H. Miall ◽  
T. Tamaoki

RNA extracted from total and membrane-bound polysomes of mouse liver was capable of directing protein synthesis in a homologous cell-free system in the presence of a 0.5 M KCl ribosomal wash fraction. Analysis of the products by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoprecipitation showed that newly formed albumin could account for up to 8% of the total protein synthesized.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 058
Author(s):  
Anna P. Roswiem ◽  
Triayu Septiani

<em>Bahan<strong> </strong>baku untuk membuat baso adalah daging hewan, pada umumnya dari daging sapi, ayam, ikan dan babi. Di beberapa daerah di Indonesia terjadi kasus baso tikus. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menguji ada tidaknya kandungan daging tikus pada produk baso yang dijual di pasar Cempaka Putih-Kecamatan Kramat Jakarta Pusat dan di pedagang baso atau mie baso di sekitar kampus Universitas YARSI Jakarta. Daging adalah protein salah satu metode untuk mengidentifikasi protein adalah metode Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE).<strong> </strong>Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dari 6 sampel baso terindikasi ada 2 sampel baso dengan nomor 1 dan 5 yang dibuat dari campuran daging sapi dan tikus; ada 1 sampel baso dengan nomor 6 yang terbuat dari daging tikus; dan 2 sampel baso dengan nomor 2 dan 3 yang terbuat dari campuran sapi  dan babi, dan hanya 1 sampel baso dengan nomor sampel 4 yang benar-benar terbuat dari daging sapi.</em>


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