Abstract
We have examined the occurrence of multiple acyl-carrier protein (ACP), isoforms in evolutionarily diverse species of higher and lower plants. Isoforms were resolved by native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), and were detected by Western blotting or fluorography of [3H]-palmitate-labelled ACPs. Multiple isoforms of ACP were found in leaf tissue of the monocotyledons Avena sativa and Hordeum vulgare and dicotyledons Arabidopsis thaliana, Cuphea wrightii, and Brassica napus. Lower vascular plants including the lycopod Selaginella krausseriana, the gymnosperms Ephedra sp. and Dioon edule, the ferns Davallia feejensis and Marsilea sp. and the most primitive known extant vascular plant, Psilotum nudum, were all found to have multiple ACP isoforms, as were the nonvascular liverworts, Lunularia sp. and Marchantia sp. and the moss, Polytrichum sp. Therefore, the development of ACP isoforms appears to have occurred early in plant evolution. However, we could detect only a single electrophoretic form of ACP in the unicellular algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Dunaliella tertiolecta and the photosynthetic cyanobacteria Synechocystis strain 6803 and Agmnellum quadruplicatum. Thus, multiple forms of ACP do not occur in all photosynthetic organisms but may be associated with multicellular plants. We have also examined tissue specificity and light control over the expression of ACP isoforms. The relative abundance of multiple forms of ACP in leaf of Spinacia and Avena was altered very little by light. Rather, the different patterns of ACP isoforms were primarily dependent on the tissue type.
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Abbreviations
- ACP:
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Acyl-carrier protein
- HPLC:
-
high-pressure liquid chromatography
- PAGE:
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polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- SDS:
-
sodium dodecyl sulfate
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We thank John Mugg for supplying many of the plant species used in this study from the Michigan State University greenhouses. We also thank Drs. Jan G. Jaworski, Martha A. Post-Beitenmiller, Katherine M. Schmid and Barbara B. Sears for carefully reviewing our manuscript. This work was supported by grant No. DE-FG02-87ER13729 from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Battey, J.F., Ohlrogge, J.B. Evolutionary and tissue-specific control of expression of multiple acyl-carrier protein isoforms in plants and bacteria. Planta 180, 352–360 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00198786
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