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Resolution and Properties of Two High Affinity Cyclic Adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate-Binding Proteins from Wheat Germ ¹

Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia

A high affinity cAMP-binding protein (cABP II) was purified to homogeneity from wheat germ. The apparent molecular weight of cABP II, as determined from gel exclusion chromatography, is 5.2 x 10⁵ (at low ionic strength) and 2.8 x 10⁵ (at high ionic strength). One polypeptide subunit (molecular weight, 80,000) was resolved by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cABP II under subunit dissociating conditions. The purification protocol employed resolves cABP II from a distinct, less acidic cAMP-binding protein (cABP I). The K_d values for cAMP are about 10^–6 molar and 10^–7 molar for cABP II and cABP I, respectively. The cAMP-binding sites of cABP I and cABP II have a marked adenine-analog specificity, binding adenine, adenosine, adenine-derived nucleosides and nucleotides and a variety of adenine derivatives having cytokinin activity. While cABP II is phosphorylated in reactions catalyzed by endogenous protein kinases, there is no evidence for modulation of these cABP II-protein kinase interactions by cAMP.