Abstract
Phytochrome from 10 or 11-d-old oat (Avena sativa L. cv. Garry) leaves, which were harvested just prior to sunset from plants grown in a greenhouse in the absence of supplemental illumination, was purified an estimated 250-fold by sequential poly(ethylenimine) and ammonium-sulfate fractionations, followed by linear-gradient hydroxyapatite chromatography. Compared to earlier protocols, the one presented here is substantially more rapid, provides improved yield and purity, can be used with larger quantities of tissue, and eliminates an apparently immunodominant contaminant with a molecular mass of about 115 kDa (kilodalton). Phytochrome obtained by this procedure has an apparent monomer size of 123 kDa as evaluated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and is estimated to be 0.6% pure. This purity permitted spectral analysis at wavelengths below 500 nm, in which region phytochromes from green and etiolated oat shoots do not differ markedly, as they do at longer wavelengths.
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Abbreviations
- Da:
-
Dalton
- HA:
-
hydroxyapatite
- Pfr, Pr:
-
farredand red-absorbing form of phytochrome, respectively
- SDS:
-
sodium dodecyl sulfate
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This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (contract DE-AC-09-81SR10925 to L.H.P.). The excellent technical assistance of Mrs. Donna Tucker and Mrs. Danielle Neal is gratefully acknowledged.
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Pratt, L.H., Shimazaki, Y., Stewart, S.J. et al. Large-scale partial purification of phytochrome from green leaves of Avena sativa L.. Planta 184, 81–86 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00208240
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