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Plant Physiology 43:1239-1243 (1968)
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Some Properties of Phytochrome Isolated From Dark-grown Oat Seedlings (Avena sativa L.) 1

Winslow R. Briggs2, Wendell D. Zollinger and Barbara B. Platz2

Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Phytochrome was partially purified from etiolated seedlings of Avena sativa L. Several properties of the red-absorbing (PR) and far-red absorbing (PFR) forms of the pigment were compared. The 2 forms could not be shown to differ with respect to their sedimentation velocity in sucrose density gradients, elution volume from Sephadex G-200 columns, binding properties on calcium phosphate, or electrophoretic mobility. PFR, however, was more labile than PR during precipitation with 50% ammonium sulfate. Sephadex G-200 elution diagrams obtained with fresh phytochrome preparations revealed 2 components of different molecular weights, 1 roughly 180,000, and 1 roughly 80,000. Native phytochrome had an absorption spectrum in vivo showing an absorption maximum for PR of 667 nm. Both the large and small forms of phytochrome mentioned above can be maintained with an absorption maximum for PR of 667 nm. However, allowing them to remain for several hours as PFR, even at 4°, shifted this peak to 660 nm. The protein conformational change during phytochrome transformation may be quite small, though the various comparative techniques used do not strictly rule out a fairly large one. The need for maintaining the pigment as PR during all steps of purification, but particularly during ammonium sulfate precipitation is underscored.

2 Present address: The Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

1 Supported by National Science Foundation Grants GB-2846 and GB-6683 and a grant from Research Corporation to W.R.B.






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