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Plant Physiology 85:440-445 (1987)
© 1987 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Metabolism and Enzymology

Proglobulin Processing Enzyme in Vacuoles Isolated from Developing Pumpkin Cotyledons 1

Ikuko Hara-Nishimura2 and Mikio Nishimura2

Research Institute for Biochemical Regulation, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464 Japan

The enzymic conversion of proglobulin to globulin catalyzed by the extracts of vacuoles isolated from developing pumpkin (Cucurbita sp. cv Kurokawa Amakuri Nankin) cotyledons was investigated. The endoplasmic reticulum fraction isolated from the developing cotyledons pulselabeled with [35S]methionine was shown to contain mainly the radiolabeled proglobulin, which was used as a substrate for assaying the proteolytic processing in vitro. The vacuolar extracts catalyzed the proteolytic processing of the proglobulin molecule to produce globulin containing two kinds of polypeptide chains, {gamma} and {delta}. The pH optimum for the vacuole-mediated conversion was at pH 5.0. The proteolytic processing of proglobulin by the vacuolar extracts was inhibited in the presence of various thiol reagents, e.g. p-chloromercuribenzoate, N-ethylmaleimide, iodoacetic acid, Hg2+, and Cu2+, but not phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, EDTA, o-phenanthroline, leupeptin, antipain, pepstatin, chymostatin, or pumpkin trypsin inhibitor, and was activated in the presence of dithiothreitol and cysteine, indicating that the processing enzyme is a thiol protease. The suborganellar fractionation of the vacuoles showed that the processing activity was localized in the matrix fraction, but not in the membrane or crystalloid fractions. During the seed development, the enzyme was shown to increase, exhibiting the maximal activity at the late developmental stage. The matrix fraction of the protein bodies isolated from the dry castor bean (Ricinus communis) exhibited the processing activity toward the pumpkin proglobulin molecules in the same manner as that by the matrix fraction of pumpkin vacuoles.

2 Present address: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Rokkoudai, Nada, Kobe 657, Japan.

1 This is paper No. 11 in a series "Pumpkin (cucurbita sp.) Seed Globulin." Paper No. 10 is Ref. 6.




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