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. 1983 Mar;71(3):489–495. doi: 10.1104/pp.71.3.489

Purification and Properties of a High Specific Activity Protein Kinase from Wheat Germ 1

Jeffrey R Davies 1, Gideon M Polya 1
PMCID: PMC1066065  PMID: 16662854

Abstract

A protein kinase was extensively purified to near-homogeneity from wheat germ by a procedure involving affinity chromatography on casein-Sepharose 4B, gel filtration, and repeated chromatography on carboxymethyl-Sepharose CL-6B. The protein kinase preparations have the highest specific activities (up to 656 nanomoles phosphate incorporated per minute per milligram of protein) yet reported for plant protein kinases. The major polypeptides in purified preparations were revealed as two barely-resolved bands (molecular weight 31,000) on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in subunit-dissociating conditions. The molecular size of the protein kinase as determined from gel filtration is 30,000. The protein kinase catalyzes the phosphorylation of casein, phosvitin, and the wheat germ cyclic AMP-binding protein cABPII but not of bovine serum albumin and histones nor of the wheat germ cytokinin-binding protein CBP. The protein kinase has a pH optimum of 7.9 and a Km value for ATP of 10 micromolar. The protein kinase differs from wheat germ CBP kinase in molecular weight, differential sensitivity to inhibitors, and in substrate specificity.

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