title: Partial proteolysis of rice phytochrome: comparison with oat phytochrome.
abstract: Phytochrome was isolated from etiolated rice seedlings (Oryza sativa L.) by slight modification of the procedure for oat phytochrome. Spectral data of rice phytochrome are comparable with those of oat and rye phytochrome. Controlled proteolysis with endoproteinases Lys-C and Glu-C yielded defined fragments some of which were different for Pr and Pfr. The fragments were identified by comparison with the corresponding fragments of oat phytochrome and by comparison of the amino acid sequences of rice and oat phytochrome. Regions of the peptide chain which are differently exposed in Pr and Pfr were identified. A highly conserved sequence around residues 740-750 is discussed as candidate for an "active center" of signal transduction.
authors.affiliation: Botanisches Institut der Universität München, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schendel
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rüdiger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012275:Oryza / Q000032:analysis; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases; D010834:Phytochrome; D010940:Plant Proteins; D010944:Plants / Q000032:analysis*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D010940:Plant Proteins; D010834:Phytochrome; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases