Leghaemoglobin within bacteroid-enclosing membrane envelopes from soybean root nodules
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Planta
- Vol. 152 (6), 534-543
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00380824
Abstract
Methods are reported for the preparation from soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) root nodules, of well-washed, intact membrane envelopes containing bacteroids. The intact envelopes are of much lower density than the bacteroids within and therefore only low speed centrifugation (approx. 150 g) may be used. The optimum osmotic strength is 600 mOsm/kg H2O. The envelope contents were recovered following mild osmotic shock and-or hard centrifugal packing at >10,000 g. Extracts prepared in this way contained leghaemoglobin (identified spectrophotometrically), low-molecular-weight fluorescent materials and other components which are yet to be identified. Envelope leghaemoglobin did not react with specific antibody until the envelopes were ruptured. 131I-Labelled leghaemoglobin or bovine serum albumin, added during initial breakage of nodule cells, was not released when envelopes were ruptured to release leghaemoglobin. It is therefore concluded that this leghaemoglobin is located within the envelope space and did not arise from adhering or occluded cytosol leghaemoglobin. Based on the number and dimensions of microscopically intact envelopes in these preparations, the concentration within that space was in the range 178–523 μM. Based on these estimates, leghaemoglobin within envelopes represented about one third of the total amount present in the nodule cells. Flat-bed isoelectric focusing of partially-purified envelope leghaemoglobin demonstrated that the latter contained all of the leghaemoglobin components previously reported for soybean nodules and an additional minor component focusing between leghaemoglobins a and b.Keywords
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