PMID: 6169525Aug 1, 1981Paper

Biosynthesis of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein. Control of messenger RNA activity by light

European Journal of Biochemistry
A C Cuming, J Bennett

Abstract

1. Antibodies raised against the 26000-Mr polypeptides of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b proteins of pea leaves specifically immunoprecipitated two 32000-Mr polypeptides synthesized when pea leaf poly(A)-containing RNA was translated in vitro. On the basis of immunochemical relatedness and by comparison of their partial tryptic digestion products, the 32000-Mr products formed in vitro are identified as precursors to the authentic polypeptides of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex. 2. The specificity of the immunoprecipitation permitted the development of an assay for the cellular levels of translationally active light-harvesting protein mRNA in plants exposed to different light regimes. Low levels of the mRNAs were detectable in dark-grown plants. Exposure to continuous illumination caused these levels to increase by at least ten-fold and led to the appearance of large quantities of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex. In plants exposed to intermittent illumination (2 min of white light every 2 h for 2 days), the light-harvesting complex did not accumulate, although levels of mRNA specifying the polypeptides of the complex were high (50% of those in continuously illuminated plants). 3. Messenger RNAs en...Continue Reading

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