Proteolysis in the quiescent seed

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 519-525

  Duarte, Isabel ^a   Ricardo, Cândido P P ^b,c   Duque Magalhães, Maria C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Endopeptidases; Fabaceae; In vitro autolysis; In vivo degradation; Lupinus albus; Protease; Proteolysis; Quiescent seed; White lupin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003888160     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1996.tb00467.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Ashton, F. M. 1976. Mobilization of storage proteins of seeds. -Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 27: 95-117.
2. Barret, A. J., Kembhavi, A. A., Brown, M. A., Kirchke, H., Knight, C. G., Tamai, M. & Hanade, K. 1982. L-trans-Epoxysuccynil-leucylamido(4-guanidino)butane (E-64) and its analogues as inhibitors of cystein proteinases including cathepsins, β, H and L. - Biochem. J. 201: 189-198.
3. Basha, S. M. M. & Beevers, L. 1975. The development of proteolytic activity and protein degradation during the germination of Pisum sativum L. - Planta 124: 77-87.
4. Baumgartner, B. & Chrispeels, M. J. 1977. Purification and characterization of vicilin peptidohydrolase, the major endopeptidase in the cotyledons of mung bean seedlings. -Eur. J. Biochem. 77: 223-233.
5. Bond, H. M. & Bowles, D. J. 1983. Characterization of soybean endopeptidase using exogenous and endogenous substrates. - Plant Physiol. 72: 345-350.
6. Bradford, M. M. 1976. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein dye-binding. - Anal. Biochem. 72: 248-254.
7. Chrispeels, M. J., Baumgartner, B. & Harris, N. 1976. Regulation of reserve protein metabolism in the cotyledons of mung bean seedlings. - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 73: 3168-3172.
8. Csoma, C. & Polgar, L. 1984. Proteinase from germinating bean cotyledons. Evidence for involvement of a thiol group in catalysis. - Biochem. J. 222: 769-776.
9. Duarte, I. C., Ricardo, C. P. P. & Duque-Magalhães, M. C. 1993. Peptide hydrolases in cotyledons of germinating lupin. -Phytochemistry 33: 35-40.
10. Duranti, M., Gatehouse, J. A., Boulter, D. & Cerletti, P. 1987. In vitro proteolytic processing of pea and jackbean storage proteins by an endopeptidase from lupin seeds. - Phytochemistry 26: 627-631.
11. Elpidina, E. N., Voskoboynikova, N. E., Belozersky, M. A. & Dunaevsky, Y. E. 1991. Localization of a metalloproteinase and its inhibitor in the protein bodies of buckwheat seeds. -Planta 185: 46-52.
12. 131I-labelled human growth hormone of high specific radioactivity. - Biochem. J. 89: 114-123.
13. Hara, I. & Matsubara, H. 1980. Pumpkin (Cucurbita sp.) seed globulin. V. Proteolytic activities involved in globulin degradation in ungerminated seeds. - Plant Cell Physiol. 21: 219-232.
14. Harper, J. W., Hemmi, K. & Powers, J. C. 1985. Reaction of serine proteases with substituted isocoumarins: Discovery of 3,4-dichloroisocoumarin, a new general mechanism based serine protease inhibitor. - Biochemistry 24: 1831-1841.
15. Laemmli, U. K. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. - Nature 227: 680-685.
16. Matile, P. 1987. Biochemistry and function of vacuoles. - Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 29: 193-213.
17. Mikkonen, A., Begbie, R. Grant, G. & Pusztai, A. 1986. Intracellular localization of some peptidases and a-mannosidase in cotyledons of resting kidney bean, Phaseolus vulgaris. -Physiol. Plant. 68: 75-80.
18. Pernollet, J. C. 1978. Protein bodies of seeds: Ultrastructure, biochemistry, biosynthesis and degradation. - Phytochemistry 17: 1473-1480.
19. Porsild, A. E. & Harrington, C. R. 1967. Lupinus arcticus Wats. grown from seeds of Pleistocene age. - Science 158: 113-114.
20. Rich, D. H., Boparai, A. S. & Bematowicz, M. S. 1982. Synthesis of a 3-oxo-4-(5-amino) acid analog of pepstatin. A new inhibitor of carboxyl proteases. - Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 104: 1127-1133.
21. Ryan, C. A. 1973. Proteinases and their inhibitors. - Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 24: 173-196.
22. _ & Simmons, W. 1981. Plant proteinases. - In The Biochemistry of Plants (P. K. Stumpf and E. E. Conn, eds), Vol. 6, pp. 321-350. Academic Press, New York, NY. ISBN 0-12-675406-3.
23. Scarafoni, A., Giani, D. & Cerletti, P. 1992. An endopeptidase in dormant lupin seeds. - Phytochemistry 31: 3715-3723.
24. St. Angelo, A. J., Ory, R. L. & Hansen, H. J. 1969. Localization of an acid protease in hempseed. - Phytochemistry 8: 1135-1141.
25. Shutov, A. D. & Vaintraub, I. A. 1987. Degradation of storage proteins in germinating seeds. - Phytochemistry 26: 1557-1566.
26. Tan-Wilson, A. L. & Wilson, K. A. 1982. Nature of proteinase inhibitors released from soybeans during imbibition and germination. - Phytochemistry 21: 1547-1551.
27. Wilson, K. A., Papastoitsis, G., Hartl, P. & Tan-Wilson, A. 1988. Survey of the proteolytic activities degrading the Kunitz trypsin inhibitor and glycinin in germinating soybeans (Glycine max). - Plant Physiol. 88: 355-360.
28. Yamaoka, Y., Takeuchi, M. & Morohashi, Y. 1990. Purification and characterization of a cysteine endopeptidase in cotyledons of germinated mung bean seeds. - Plant Physiol. 94: 561-566.