Plant Physiology 74:576-583 (1984)
© 1984 American Society of Plant Biologists
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Effects of Exogenous Methionine on Storage Protein Composition of Soybean Cotyledons Cultured In Vitro
Lorraine P. Holowach,
John F. Thompson and
James T. Madison
United States Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853,
Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Supplemental methionine in a complete culture medium increased the methionine content of the protein fraction of cultured soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) cotyledons (Thompson, Madison, Muenster 1981 Phytochemistry 20: 941-945). To explain the observed increase in protein methionine, we have measured the amounts and subunit compositions of 7S and 11S storage proteins and determined the amino acid compositions of the three major protein fractions (2-5S, 7S, 11S) of seeds developed on plants and of cultured cotyledons grown in the presence or absence of supplemental L-methionine. Development of cultured cotyledons was representative of development of seeds on plants. The ratios of 11S to 7S proteins, the subunit contents, and amino acid compositions of their storage protein fractions were similar, but not identical. Supplemental methionine increased the mole percent methionine in each of the three protein fractions of cultured cotyledons and changed the amounts of several other amino acids. Supplemental methionine inhibited expression of the 7S  -subunit gene. Concomitant with the absence of the -subunit, which contains no methionine, was an increase in the ratio of 11S to 7S proteins, and an increase in the methionine content of the subunits composing these fractions. Inhibition of -subunit gene expression by methionine in cultured cotyledons provides a reproducible, easily controlled system for the study of eucaryotic gene expression.
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