The cucumber long hypocotyl mutant lacks a light-stable PHYB-like phytochrome.
AUTOR(ES)
López-Juez, E
RESUMO
A novel cDNA sequence homologous to a phytochrome B (phyB) gene that was isolated in a library from tobacco tissue has been used in an Escherichia coli expression system to raise anti-phytochrome B (anti-PHYB) polypeptide-specific monoclonal antibodies. The specificity of these antibodies has been tested by cross-reactivity against purified pea light-labile type 1 and light-stable type 2 phytochromes, with some antibodies reacting with the type 2 and none with the type 1 phytochromes. One such antibody, monoclonal mAT1, has been employed to analyze the phytochrome molecular species present in a photomorphogenic long hypocotyl (lh) mutant of cucumber. The results indicated that the mutant contains wild-type levels of the light-labile type 1 phytochrome polypeptide (PHYA), which has an apparent molecular mass of approximately 120 kD, but shows less than 1% (detection limit) of a light-stable polypeptide recognized by mAT1 in wild-type seedlings. This protein, not detectable in the lh mutant, has the properties of light-stable type 2 phytochrome, has an apparent molecular mass of 116 to 117 kD, and remains at constant levels under continuous low-fluence-rate red light. Therefore, we conclude that the lh mutant lacks at least one type 2 phytochrome-like polypeptide, most probably a phyB gene product. The correlation between the lack of this protein and the deficiency or absence of physiological responses to a light-stable phytochrome species in this mutant helps to identify the physiological roles played by the products of different subfamilies within the phytochrome gene family.
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