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Intact chloroplasts and vacuoles were isolated from mesophyll protoplasts of barley. The chloroplasts occupied about 15% of the cellular volume and contained 75% of the protein, whereas the vacuoles occupied about 80% of the volume and contained less than 4% of total cellular protein. Contamination of the vacuolar fraction by foreign protein is included in these values. Chlorophyll was absent from the vacuolar fraction, but less than 1% of several extra-vacuolar marker proteins were still present. The vacuoles contained hydrolytic enzymes. Several of them (α-mannosidase, α-galactosidase, N-acetylglucosaminidase) were soluble, whereas part of the activity of others semimented with the tonoplasts during centrifugation. Attached proteins could be released from the membranes during freezing in the presence of NaCl. One-dimensional gel electrophoretic separation of soluble vacuolar proteins under non-denaturing conditions yielded more than 10 protein bands. A comparative analysis was performed of thylakoids and vacuoles which were subfractionated into tonoplasts and soluble vacuolar constituents. Sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis separated about 15 polypeptides of the soluble fraction which reacted with silver reagent. The tonoplast fraction yielded about 20 bands. A similar number of bands was observed when vacuoles incubated with the 14C-labelled SH-reagent N-ethylmaleimide were analysed for radioactive polypeptides. Silverstaining of the polypeptides and their SH-content did not correlate. Several polypeptides of the vacuolar fraction had molecular weights very similar to the molecular weights of known chloroplast proteins. However, with the exception of the two subunits of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase, contamination of the vacuolar fraction by chloroplast proteins could be ruled out as a possible cause of the close correspondence. The lipophilic carboxylic-group reagent N,N′-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide ([14C]DCCD) reacted with several polypeptides of thylakoids and tonoplasts. However, the labelling patterns were different. The most heavily labelled polypeptide of thylakoids was the 8-kDa polypeptide of the basal part of the coupling factor CF0. Tonoplast polypeptides heavily labelled with [14C]DCCD had molecular weights of 24, 28, and 56 kDa. The vacuolar 8-kDa polypeptide remained unlabelled.
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Abbreviations
- DCCD:
-
N,N′-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide
- IA:
-
iodoacetamide
- NEM:
-
N-ethylmaleimide
- PAGE:
-
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- PMSF:
-
phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride
- SDS:
-
sodium dodecyl sulfate
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Kaiser, G., Martinoia, E., Schmitt, J.M. et al. Polypeptide pattern and enzymic character of vacuoles isolated from barley mesophyll protoplasts. Planta 169, 345–355 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00392130
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