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Polyclonal rat antibodies were raised to a bovine serum albumin-sinigrin conjugate and used to immunolocalize sinigrin (2-propenylglucosinolate) in imbibed seeds and developing seedlings of Brassica juncea. (L.) Czern. Sinigrin was localized to protein bodies in aleurone-like cells but shown to be absent from myrosin cells. Double labelling techniques were used to co-localize both myrosinase (β-thioglucoside glucohydrolase, EC 3.2.3.1) and sinigrin. Myrosin grains were labelled only with the anti-myrosinase antibody, but aleurone cells were labelled with both anti-myrosinase and anti-sinigrin antibodies. High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of conventionally fixed and dehydrated seed tissues (4 h post imbibition in water), indicated a high proportion of sinigrin was retained in fixed tissues. Over a time course of 100 h, protein bodies within aleurone-like cells degraded, fused to form the cell vacuole and lost all myrosinase labelling but retained residual sinigrin labelling. The degradation of protein bodies corresponded to a decrease in retention of sinigrin in the fixed tissues. The results describe for the first time the co-localization of a plant enzyme and its substrate, a secondary metabolite.
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Received: 8 January 1998 / Accepted: 27 February 1998
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Kelly, P., Bones, A. & Rossiter, J. Sub-cellular immunolocalization of the glucosinolate sinigrin in seedlings of Brassica juncea . Planta 206, 370–377 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004250050412
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