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. 1981 Feb;67(2):270–277. doi: 10.1104/pp.67.2.270

Isolation of a Plant Glycoprotein Involved with Control of Intercellular Recognition 1

Thomas E Ferrari 1, Diane Bruns 1, Donald H Wallace 1
PMCID: PMC425668  PMID: 16661660

Abstract

A recognition molecule was isolated from stigmas of S-allele genotype S2S2 of Brassica oleracea var. capitata L. After Sephadex chromatography, it eluted as a single symmetrical peak during diethylaminoethane-cellulose chromatography. A high degree of purity was affirmed by: sedimentation as a single peak during ultracentrifugation through 5 to 20% sucrose gradients; elution as a single peak from Sephadex G-100; visualization as a single band which stains with Coomassie blue and periodic acid Schiff reagent after electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels. Other criteria supporting the conclusion that it is a glycoprotein are: (a) the highly purified preparation is anthrone-positive and has a Lowry protein to anthrone-positive carbohydrate ratio of 1.3; (b) the preparation contains arabinose, galactose, glucose, and mannose, although it is not precipitated by concanavalin A; (c) the immunological properties of the molecule are lost following protease treatment, and it has a molecular weight of 90,000 by Sephadex gel-filtration analysis and 54,500 by velocity sedimentation analysis.

In vitro pretreatment of S2S2 pollen with the post-diethylaminoethane-purified S2 glycoprotein prevented the S2S2 pollen from germinating on three classes of compatible stigmas: (a) mature stigmas of genotypes S3S3 and S8S8, which are non-self genotypes; (b) immature stigmas of genotype S2S2, where incompatibility is not expressed; and (c) mature stigmas with a recessive S2 allele. Pretreatment of S3S3 and S8S8 pollen with the S2 glycoprotein did not interfere with their germination.

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