bioRxiv
bioRxiv
3 years ago

Identification of a filamentous form of kunitz protease inhibitor in Asteraceae

Bratsch, S., Olszewski, N., Lockhart, B.
Filamentous structures were observed in purified extracts from chrysanthemum, gerbera, sunflower and zinnia. When purified filament proteins were subjected to SDS-PAGE, the major protein associated with filaments from all three species has an apparent molecular mass of {approx}25 kDa. Protein bands from chrysanthemum, gerbera, and zinnia were subjected to N-terminal protein sequencing while proteins from sunflower were sequenced by CID MS/MS. All of the sequences shared highest similarity to the kunitz trypsin inhibitor family. The sequencing results indicated that the proteins lacked the signal sequences. We tested the gerbera filament protein for glycosylation and found that it was a glycoprotein. Together these results indicate that the filaments are composed of mature KTI protein. This is the first report of a KTI assembling into filaments and the first report of a filament forming Asteraceae enzyme.

Publisher URL: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2021.01.22.427805v1

DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.22.427805

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