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Plant Physiology 81:830-835 (1986)
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Synthesis and Processing of Cellulase from Ripening Avocado Fruit

Alan B. Bennett and Rolf E. Christoffersen1

Mann Laboratory, Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, California 95616

The biosynthesis and processing of cellulase from ripening avocado fruit was studied. The mature protein is a glycoprotein, as judged by concanavalin A binding, with a molecular weight of 54,200. Upon complete deglycosylation by treatment with trifluoromethane sulfonic acid the mature protein has a molecular weight of 52,800 whereas the immunoprecipitated in vitro translation product has a molecular weight of 54,000. This result indicates that cellulase is synthesized as a large molecular weight precursor, which presumably possesses a short-lived signal peptide. A membrane-associated and heavily glycosylated form of the protein was also identified. This putative secretory precursor was enzymically active and the carbohydrate side chains were sensitive to endoglycosidase H cleavage. Results of partial endoglycosidase H digestion suggest that this precursor form of the mature glycoprotein possesses two high-mannose oligosaccharide side chains. The oligosaccharide chains of the mature protein were insensitive to endoglycosidase H cleavage, indicating that transport of the membrane-associated cellulase to the cell wall was accompanied by modification of the oligosaccharide side chains. The presence of a large pool of endoglycosidase H-sensitive membrane-associated cellulase (relative to an endoglycosidase H-insensitive form) suggest that transit of this protein through the Golgi is rapid relative to transit through the endoplasmic reticulum.

1 Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.




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