Molecular biology of seed storage proteins and lectins
- eds.
The seeds of many plants contain abundant storage protein and lectin which have been the subject of biochemical investigations for over a hundred years. Because these proteins represent abundant gene products translated from abundant messages, they were among the first plant proteins to which the techniques of molecular biology were applied. Many of the proteins have now been purified and characterized and their amino acid sequences have been determined; some have been crystallized and their 3-dimensional structure is known. Studies of their biosynthesis, transport and accumulation in protein bodies have lead to a greater understanding of the dynamics of plant cell organelles. Seed storage proteins and lectins are encoded by small gene families whose members show considerable homology and appear to have been conserved in evolution. The expression of these genes is highly regulated in time (development) and space (tissue). The recent discovery that other plant organs synthesize lectins, or lectin-like proteins which are closely related to the seed lectins, has lent additional support to the search for a function for these intriguing proteins; this finding also indicates that different members of the gene family are expressed in different tissues. Individual papers were processed separately for the data base.
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Riverside, CA (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/ER
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-85ER13334
- OSTI ID:
- 5518549
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8601154-; ISBN: 0-943088-08-9
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 9. annual symposium in plant physiology: molecular biology of seed storage proteins and lectins, Riverside, CA (USA), 9-11 Jan 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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