エンドウ トシヤ   ENDO TOSHIYA
  遠藤 斗志也
   所属   京都産業大学  生命科学部 先端生命科学科
   職種   客員教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 1994/12
形態種別 その他
査読 査読あり
標題 IDENTIFICATION OF THE SECA PROTEIN HOMOLOG IN PEA-CHLOROPLASTS AND ITS POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT IN THYLAKOIDAL PROTEIN-TRANSPORT
執筆形態 その他
掲載誌名 JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
出版社・発行元 AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
巻・号・頁 269(50),pp.31338-31341
著者・共著者 M NAKAI,A GOTO,T NOHARA,D SUGITA,T ENDO
概要 Recently, we identified the SecA and SecY proteins in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC7942, Antibodies raised against cyanobacterial SecA specifically reacted with a 110-kDa protein of pea chloroplasts, suggesting the presence of SecA in higher plant chloroplasts. Apart of the pea secA cDNA was polymerase chain reaction-amplified with degenerated oligonucleotide primers and with pea cDNA as a template. The deduced amino acid sequence shows 62% identity with cyanobacterial SecA and 52% identity with Escherichia coli Seek Antibodies raised against the pea SecA fragment, which was expressed in E. coli cells hom the obtained polymerase chain reaction-amplified cDNA, reacted with the 110-kDa chloroplast protein; the 110-kDa protein was mainly found in the stroma but partly in the thylakoid membrane. The anti-pea SecA IgG inhibited the in vitro import of the 33-kDa protein of the oxygen-evolving complex, but not of the 23-kDa protein of the oxygen-evolving complex, into thylakoids. These results suggest that SecA facilitates transport of a subset of thylakoid lumenal proteins including the 33-kDa protein into thylakoids, We propose that a bacterial-type Sec protein-dependent transport system operates for protein transport into thylakoids in higher plant chloroplasts.
ISSN 0021-9258/1083-351X