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Immunological Evidence of Connexin‐like Proteins in the Plasma Membrane of Vicia faba L.
Author(s) -
Hunte Carola,
Schnabl Heide,
Traub O.,
Willecke K.,
Schulz Margot
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
botanica acta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0932-8629
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1992.tb00273.x
Subject(s) - polyclonal antibodies , vicia faba , immunostaining , membrane , antibody , protoplast , biology , membrane protein , biochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , chaps , chemistry , immunohistochemistry , botany , immunology
Plasma membranes from three week old leaves of Vicia faba L. were enriched by aqueous two‐phase partitioning to high purity. Plasma membrane proteins were immunoblotted with polyclonal, monospecific antibodies raised against mouse liver connexins (cx) 32 and 26. Immunostaining after treatments with cx 32 antibodies revealed the existence of a 29 kDa protein, clearly enriched in the plasma membrane fraction. An additional immunoreactive band of 20 kDa, possibly a degradation product of the 29 kDa protein, was found in the soluble fraction. When immunoblots were incubated with cx 26 antibodies, a 40 kDa band with a strong immunoresponse appeared, assumed to present the dimeric form of a 21 kDa, cx 26‐like plant protein. The monomeric form could be only obtained when intact leaf material or mesophyll protoplasts from three week old plants were directly SDS‐extracted. Furthermore, in young, one week old leaves, the monomer seems to exist in larger amounts, together with another crossreacting 35 kDa protein. The 29 kDa (cx 32‐related) as well as the 40 kDa (cx 26‐related) polypeptide is obviously located in the plasma membrane. The 40 kDa protein has to be considered as a new connexin‐like plant protein.

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