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PHYTOCHEMISTRY
卷 55, 期 5, 页码 429-438出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(00)00336-8
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Medicago truncatula; leguminosae; hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins; extensin; proline-rich proteins; nodules; nitrogen fixation; cell wall protein
The hydroxyproline-rich root nodules of legumes provide a microaerobic niche for symbiotic nitrogen-fixing Rhizobacteria. The contributions of the cell wall and associated structural proteins, particularly the hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs), are therefore of interest. Our approach involved identification of the protein components by direct chemical analysis of the insoluble wall. Chymotryptic peptide mapping showed a P3-type extensin containing the highly arabinosylated Ser-Hyp(4)-Ser-Hyp-Ser-Hyp(4)-Tyr(3)-Lys motif as a major component. Cell wall amino acid analyses and quantitative hydroxyproline arabinoside profiles, predominantly of tri- and tetraarabinosides, confirmed this extensin as the major structural protein in the cell walls of both root nodules and uninfected roots. On the other hand, judging from the Pro, Glu and non-glycosylated Hyp content, the nodule-specific proline-rich glycoproteins, such as the early nodulins (ENOD-PRPs), are present in much lesser amounts. Although we isolated no PRP peptides from nodule cell walls, a single PRP peptide from root cell walls confirmed the presence of a PRP in roots and represented the first direct evidence for a crosslinked PRP in mure. Compared with root cell walls (similar to7% protein dry weight) nodule cell walls contained significantly more protein (similar to 13% dry weight) with an overall amino acid and peptide composition indicating the presence of structural protein unrelated to the HRGPs. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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