Abstract
Proteolytic fragments were obtained by limited proteolysis of 124-kDa (kilodalton) phytochrome from etiolatedAvena sativa using trypsin, endoproteinase-Lys-C, endoproteinase-Glu-C and subtilisin. The fragments were separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis, blotted onto activated glass-fiber sheets and investigated by amino-acid sequencing in a gas-phase sequencer. Determination of N-terminal sequences in three to six Edman degradation steps allowed the exact localization of the fragments within the published entire amino-acid sequence of 124-kDaAvena phytochrome (H.P. Hershey, R.F. Barker, K.B. Idler, J.L. Lissemore, P.H. Quail (1985), Nucleic Acids Res.13, 8543–8559). From the knowledge of the exact sites for preferred proteolytic cleavage of undenatured phytochrome, conclusions on the conformation of the phytochrome protein were drawn. Sites of preferred cleavage are considered to be freely exposed to the environment whereas potential cleavage sites which are resistant to proteolysis over a long time are considered to be localized in the interior of the native phytochrome. Two different sites which are exposed in the far-red-absorbing form but not in the red-absorbing form of phytochrome are localized at amino-acid residues 354 and 753, respectively. The N-terminal region which is exposed only in the red-absorbing form stretches only as far as amino-acid residue 60.
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Abbreviations
- kDa:
-
kilodalton
- Pfr:
-
far-red-absorbing form of phytochrome
- Pr:
-
red-absorbing form of phytochrome
- SDS-PAGE:
-
sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
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Dedicated to Professor W. Rau on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
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Grimm, R., Eckerskorn, C., Lottspeich, F. et al. Sequence analysis of proteolytic fragments of 124-kilodalton phytochrome from etiolatedAvena sativa L.: Conclusions on the conformation of the native protein. Planta 174, 396–401 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00959526
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