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. 1988 Dec;88(4):1168–1174. doi: 10.1104/pp.88.4.1168

Evidence for Precursor Forms of the Low Isoelectric Point α-Amylase Isozymes Secreted by Barley Aleurone Cells 1

John V Jacobsen 1,2, Douglas S Bush 1,2, Lilianne Sticher 1,2, Russell L Jones 1,2
PMCID: PMC1055735  PMID: 16666439

Abstract

Gibberellin-treated barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) aleurone cell protoplasts have been shown previously to contain two α-amylase isozymes which are not secreted (JV Jacobsen, JA Zwar, PM Chandler 1985 Planta 13: 430-438). This report shows that these intracellular forms are immunochemically related to the low isoelectric point but not the high isoelectric point group of α-amylase isozymes and that they arise by new synthesis like the secreted forms. Pulse-chase studies show that the intracellular isozymes are precursors to the secreted isozymes. Conversion of the intra- to the extracellular forms involves decreases in isoelectric points with no change in size detectable by SDS-PAGE. The precursor isozymes were also detected in aleurone layer homogenates but they were unstable. They could be stabilized by various treatments including heating the homogenate to 70°C for 10 minutes indicating that the instability was enzymically mediated. Using purified radioactive precursor isozymes, it was shown that instability did not involve inactivation but the conversion to secreted forms. The nature of the covalent modification associated with conversion was not determined but available data indicate that it does not involve glycosylation.

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