Abstract
The synthesis of a major phloem protein, PP2, was investigated by measurement of the mRNA at various stages of phloem development in Cucurbita. Quantitative assays with immuno-electrophoresis showed that the amounts of PP2 in hypocotyls of Cucurbita seedlings increased with the age of seedlings. An increase in mRNA for PP2 during the early stages of seedling growth was also observed by immunoprecipitation of the invitro translation products of hypocotyl polyadenylated RNA. There was close timing in the variations of PP2 synthesised in vivo and in the changes in amounts of translatable PP2-mRNA during the course of seedling growth. A complementary-DNA (cDNA) library to polyadenylated RNA from hypocotyls of 3-d-old Cucurbita seedlings has been constructed. Two cDNA clones, A and B, have been identified by hybrid-release translation to be complementary to the mRNA coding for PP2. The levels of total mRNA for PP2 measured with clone A were found to increase in the first 4 d of seedling growth but decreased to lower levels in older seedlings. Regulatory controls on both transcription and modification of transcripts appeared to occur during the synthesis of PP2.
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Abbreviations
- cDNA:
-
complementary DNA
- (GlcNAc)4 :
-
tetra-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-β-d-glucopyranoside)
- Mr :
-
relative molecular mass
- PP1:
-
phloem protein 1
- PP2:
-
phloem protein 2
- poly(A)+RNA:
-
polyadenylated RNA
- SDS-PAGE:
-
sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
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Sham, MH., Northcote, D.H. Transcription and translation of phloem protein (PP2) during phloem differentiation in Cucurbita maxima . Planta 170, 392–399 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00395032
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