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. 1986 Jan;80(1):181–186. doi: 10.1104/pp.80.1.181

Temperature Characteristics and Adaptive Potential of Wheat Ribosomes

Eberhard Fehling 1, Manfred Weidner 1
PMCID: PMC1075079  PMID: 16664578

Abstract

The translational efficiency of wheat ribosomes was studied as a function of an in vivo temperature pretreatment of wheat seedlings (Triticum aestivum L.). Ribosomes were isolated from heat-pretreated (36°C) and reference (4°C, 20°C) wheat seedlings. The efficiency of the ribosomes in translating polyuridylic acid was assayed. Ribosomes from heat-pretreated seedlings exhibit a threefold enhanced incorporation rate of phenylalanine as compared to ribosomes from wheat seedlings adapted to 20 or 4°C. This difference develops within 24 hours after onset of the heat treatment of seedlings following a 3 hour lag phase. The temperature induced changes can be traced back to the cytoplasmic ribosomes, since cycloheximide inhibits translation almost completely. Thermal inactivation of ribosomes occurs at 45°C, irrespective of the temperature pretreatment of the wheat seedlings. Specific differences in the yield of ribosomes, in the polyribosomal profiles, and in the apparent Arrhenius' activation energy of protein synthesis were observed depending on the age and the temperature pretreatments. The results presented here are considered an important molecular correlation to phenotypical temperature adaptation of in vivo protein synthesis in wheat (M Weidner, C Mathée, FK Schmitz 1982 Plant Physiol 69: 1281-1288).

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