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Plant Physiology 69:834-839 (1982)
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Wheat Storage Proteins 1

ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE GLIADIN MESSENGER RNAs

Thomas W. Okita2 and Frank C. Greene3

Food Proteins Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California 94710

A total RNA extract was prepared from developing wheat seeds using guanidine-HCl to eliminate endogenous RNase activity. The RNA preparation, substantially free of protein, carbohydrate and DNA, was chromatographed on either a poly uridylic acid-agarose or poly guanylic acid-agarose column to yield a gliadin-enriched mRNA fraction. Only slight differences were observed for the products synthesized in a wheat germ cell-free translation system when either poly adenylic acid-enriched or cytosine-rich RNA was used as a template. These results are consistent with the high proline content of the gliadins and indicate that a large proportion of the mRNA activity in these RNA preparations is directed toward gliadin synthesis. After a second affinity chromatography step, the gliadin-enriched mRNA fraction was fractionated by two cycles on sucrose-density gradient centrifugation under denaturing conditions. The RNA sedimented as a broad band with a peak at 14S and a shoulder at the 11S region of the sucrose gradient. RNA from the peak 14S fraction translated predominantly the two major gliadin polypeptides which had molecular weights of 34,000 and 36,000. Analysis of the 14S RNA by methylmercury hydroxide-agarose gel electrophoresis revealed the presence of a predominant RNA species with a molecular size of 415,000 (1,200 nucleotides).

2 Present address: Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163.

3 To whom correspondence should be addressed.

1 Supported in part by a USDA Competitive Research Grant 59-2068-0-1-485-0.






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