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Influence of Sulfur Nutrition on Developmental Patterns of Some Major Pea Seed Proteins and Their mRNAs

Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia

In addition to the marked reduction in legumin synthesis and legumin mRNA levels reported earlier (Chandler, Higgins, Randall, Spencer 1983 Plant Physiol 71: 47-54), pulse labeling of S-deficient Pisum sativum L. seeds showed that a high relative level of total vicilin (vicilin plus convicilin) synthesis was maintained throughout the entire phase of protein accumulation, whereas in nondeficient seeds vicilin synthesis is largely confined to the first half of this phase. Fractionation of pulse-labeled proteins on Na-dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gels showed that the synthesis of the M_r 50,000 family of vicilin polypeptides was increased and greatly extended in S-deficient seeds whereas that of convicilin was slightly reduced. Other changes apparent from pulse-labeling experiments include a depression, to different degrees, in the synthesis of three major albumin polypeptides.

The level of the mRNAs for seven major seed proteins was followed throughout development of control and sulfur-deficient seeds. In all cases, the changes in each mRNA closely reflected the pattern of synthesis of its corresponding polypeptide seen by pulse labeling. S-deficient seeds showed an elevated level of M_r 50,000 vicilin mRNA which remained high throughout seed formation, whereas legumin mRNA levels were greatly reduced at all stages of development.

When S-deficient plants were given an adequate supply of sulfate midway through seed development, there was a shift toward the protein synthesis profile characteristic of healthy plants. The synthesis of legumin and two albumins rapidly increased and the synthesis of M_r 50,000 vicilin declined more slowly. Similar responses were seen in detached, S-deficient seeds supplied directly with adequate sulfate.

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