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Plant Physiology 82:916-924 (1986)
© 1986 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Electrophoretic Analysis of Protoplast, Vacuole, and Tonoplast Vesicle Proteins in Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plants 1

William H. Kenyon and Clanton C. Black, Jr.

Shell Agricultural Chemical Co., P.O. Box 4248, Modesto, California 95352, Biochemistry Department, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602

Protoplasts and vacuoles were isolated and purified in large numbers from the CAM plants Ananas comosus (pineapple) and Sedum telephium for protein characterization. Vacuoles were further fractionated to yield a tonoplast vesicle preparation. Polypeptides of protoplasts, vacuoles, and tonoplast vesicles were compared to whole leaf polypeptides from both plants by one-dimensional sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Approximately 100 vacuole polypeptides could be resolved of which 25 to 30% were enriched in the tonoplast vesicles. The proteins of protoplasts, vacuoles, and tonoplast vesicles from A. comosus were analyzed further by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. When one-dimensional electrophoretograms of A. comosus polypeptides were stained with a glycoprotein-specific periodic acid Schiff stain, very few polypeptides appeared to be glycosylated, whereas a large number of glycosylated polypeptides were detected with a silver-based glycoprotein stain particularly in tonoplast vesicles. Analysis of the enzymic content of vacuoles from both plants indicated the presence of a variety of hydrolases, including bromelain as a major constituent of A. comosus. No substrate-specific ATPase, however, could be detected in vacuoles or tonoplast vesicles from either plant.

1 Supported by National Sciences Foundation grant PCM8023949 to C.C.B.






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