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. 1983 Jun;72(2):578–582. doi: 10.1104/pp.72.2.578

Isolation and Characterization of Oat Globulin Messenger RNA 1

Hernan A Rossi 1, Dawn Sywassink Luthe 1
PMCID: PMC1066277  PMID: 16663046

Abstract

When polyadenylated RNA, isolated from membrane-bound polysomes extracted from developing oat (Avena sativa L.) seeds, was translated in vitro in the rabbit reticulocyte system, two polypeptides of about 58 and 60 kilodaltons were immunoprecipitated by anti-oat globulin antibody. No electrophoretic bands corresponding to the 40 and 20 kilodalton polypeptides of oat globulin were present. However, when in vivo labeled extracts were immunoprecipitated with anti-oat globulin antibody, three groups of polypeptides (60, 40, and 20 kilodaltons) were present. It therefore seems probable that the two large polypeptides (58 and 60 kilodaltons) were precursors of the 40 and 20 kilodalton polypeptides. When the polyadenylated RNA coding for these polypeptides was size fractionated on a sucrose density gradient, it sedimented near the 18S region of the gradient. Translation of the RNA from the gradient fractions and immunoprecipitation of translation products indicated that the template for the 58 to 60 kilodalton `putative' precursors of oat globulin was probably the RNA which was approximately 18S in size.

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