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phyA-GFP is spectroscopically and photochemically similar to phyA and comprises both its native types, phyA ' and phyA ''

Sineshchekov, Vitaly and Sudnitsin, Artem and Ádám, Éva and Schafer, Eberhard and Viczián, András (2014) phyA-GFP is spectroscopically and photochemically similar to phyA and comprises both its native types, phyA ' and phyA ''. PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 13 (12). pp. 1671-1679. ISSN 1474-905X

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Abstract

Low-temperature fluorescence investigations of phyA-GFP used in experiments on its nuclear-cytoplasmic partitioning were carried out. In etiolated hypocotyls of phyA-deficient Arabidopsis thaliana expressing phyA-GFP, it was found that it is similar to phyA in spectroscopic parameters with both its native types, phyA' and phyA '', present and their ratio shifted towards phyA'. In transgenic tobacco hypocotyls, native phyA and rice phyA-GFP were also identical to phyA in the wild type whereas phyA-GFP belonged primarily to the phyA' type. Finally, truncated oat Delta 6-12 phyA-GFP expressed in phyA-deficient Arabidopsis was represented by the phyA' type in contrast to full-length oat phyA-GFP with an approximately equal proportion of the two phyA types. This correlates with a previous observation that Delta 6-12 phyA-GFP can form only numerous tiny subnuclear speckles while its wild-type counterpart can also localize into bigger and fewer subnuclear protein complexes. Thus, phyA-GFP is spectroscopically and photochemically similar or identical to the native phyA, suggesting that the GFP tag does not affect the chromophore. phyA-GFP comprises phyA'-GFP and phyA ''-GFP, suggesting that both of them are potential participants in nuclear-cytoplasmic partitioning, which may contribute to its complexity.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QD Chemistry / kémia
Q Science / természettudomány > QH Natural history / természetrajz > QH301 Biology / biológia
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 09 Feb 2015 15:07
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2015 15:07
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/21442

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