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Isolation and Cell-free Translation of Total Messenger RNA from Germinating Castor Bean Endosperm ¹

J. Michael Lord^b

^a Department of Biochemistry, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, Postgraduate School of Biological Sciences, University of Bradford, Yorkshire, England

Polyadenylated RNA was isolated from the total RNA fraction extracted from the endosperm tissue of 3-day-old castor bean seedlings by affinity chromatography on oligo(dT)-cellulose. This polyadenylated RNA was efficiently translated into protein when added to a messenger RNA-dependent cell-free system derived from rabbit reticulocytes. Characterization of the translational products by electrophoresis followed by autoradiography established that numerous discrete polypeptides were formed with molecular weights ranging from 10,000 to over 100,000. Immunoprecipitation in the presence of antiserum raised in rabbits against the total glyoxysomal matrix proteins showed that these proteins accounted for 15 to 20% of the total translational products.

Attempts to reconstitute rough endoplasmic reticulum by the addition of washed castor bean microsomal membranes to the translational system were unsuccessful, these membranes severely inhibiting protein synthesis. Canine pancreatic microsomes could be added to endosperm messenger RNA-dependent reticulocyte lysates at relatively high concentrations while still allowing significant protein synthesis.

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