Protease Inhibitor Studies and Cloning of a Serine Carboxypeptidase cDNA from Germinating Seeds of Pea (Pisum sativum L.)
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 235 (3), 574-578
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00574.x
Abstract
The nature of the proteolytic activity found within the germinating pea (Pisum sativum) seed, 4 days from the initiation of imbibition, was determined by the use of specific protease inhibitors. These studies have shown most of the activity to belong to metallo or metal-activated and serine proteases. In order to investigate further the serine protease activity, a pea cotyledon germination cDNA library was, therefore, screened with a wheat cDNA (2437) [Baulcombe, D.C., Barker, R.F. & Jarvis, M.G. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 13726-13735] which had extensive similarity to the yeast serine carboxypeptidase Y gene. A positive cDNA clone (pNY551) was obtained which had extensive similarity to the four carboxypeptidases, Arabidopsis thaliana carboxypeptidase Y-like protein, rice serine carboxypeptidase III, barley serine carboxypeptidase III and wheat serine carboxypeptidase III precursor. Northern-blot analysis showed mRNA homologous to pNY551 to be expressed in late developmental pea seed and again during germination.Keywords
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