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. 1986 Sep;82(1):109–113. doi: 10.1104/pp.82.1.109

Identification with Monoclonal Antibodies of a Second Antigenic Domain on Avena Phytochrome that Changes upon Its Photoconversion 1

Yukio Shimazaki 1,2, Marie-Michèle Cordonnier 1,2,2, Lee H Pratt 1,2
PMCID: PMC1056075  PMID: 16664975

Abstract

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that revealed an antigenic difference between the red-absorbing and far-red-absorbing forms of phytochrome (Pr and Pfr, respectively) near its amino terminus (Cordonnier M-M, H Greppin, LH Pratt 1985 Biochemistry 24: 3246-3253) was used to screen eight additional monoclonal antibodies directed to phytochrome from etiolated oats. While six of these antibodies detected Pr and Pfr with equal affinity, two of them, designated Oat-9 and Oat-16, bound to Pfr 1.6 to 2.3 times better than to Pr. Competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays indicate (a) that Oat-9 and Oat-16 probably bind to the same domain on phytochrome and (b) that this domain is at least 3.5 nanometers away from the epitope near its amino terminus that was shown earlier to change upon phototransformation. Neither the absorbance spectra of Pr and Pfr, nor the rate of dark reversion of Pfr to Pr, was influenced by the presence of Oat-9. Immunoblotting of sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels after electrophoretic separation of phytochrome fragments obtained by endogenous proteolytic digestion indicates that Oat-16 binds to an epitope located on the chromophore half of this chromoprotein. The observation that the epitope recognized by Oat-9 and Oat-16 is also present on at least some of the immunochemically distinct phytochrome that is obtained from green oat shoots (Shimazaki Y, LH Pratt 1985 Planta 164: 333-344), together with the evidence that this epitope undergoes a change upon photoransformation, indicates that it may play an important role in phytochrome function.

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