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Heterotrophically grown cells ofChlorella protothecoides were transferred to autotrophic medium and allowed to green at 25°C. The protein synthetic activity of the greening cells measured in terms of incorporation of [35S]-methionine showed a maximum around 20 h of greening and thereafter started declining. Similarly, an analysis of densitometric tracings of the fluorographic profile of the polypeptides associated with both total cellular fraction and membrane fractions during different hours of greening revealed that maximum number of polypeptides were getting labelled around 20 h of greening. At 20 h of greening, the cells were shifted to 40°C and the effect of heat shock on protein synthesis was studied. The heat shock treatment caused a definite decrease in the incorporation of [35S]-methionine into proteins. Due to heat shock, the synthesis of total soluble proteins was affected much more than that of the thylakoid membrane bound proteins. When the cells were transferred back to 25°C after a brief period of heat shock at 40°C, there was a considerable recovery in the protein synthesis and this recovery was found to be significant in the case of soluble proteins, while there was no such definite recovery in the synthesis of thylakoid membrane bound proteins.
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Abbreviations
- SDS:
-
Sodium dodecyl sulphate
- PAGE:
-
Polyacrylafde gel electrophoresis
- TCA:
-
trichloroacetic acid
- LSU:
-
large subunit
- RuBP:
-
ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate
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Valliammai, T., Gnanam, A. & mannan, R.M. Heat shock response ofChlorella protothecoides during greening. J Biosci 12, 219–228 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02703066
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