Electrophoretic profiles and amino acid composition of rice endosperm proteins of a mutant with enhanced lysine and total protein after backcrosses for germplasm improvements

1997 ◽  
Vol 95 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 230-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Schaeffer ◽  
F. T. Sharpe
1970 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. CHEN ◽  
W. BUSHUK

Solubility characteristics and amino acid composition of the endosperm proteins of one line of Triticale, its durum wheat and rye parent cultivars, and one cultivar of hard red spring wheat were compared. Quantitative distribution of the soluble protein fractions and amino acid compositions showed that the proteins of Triticale are intermediate in these properties between analogous properties of the proteins of its durum wheat and rye parents. The major differences between the hard red spring wheat and the other three species were its lower content of water-soluble proteins and higher content of insoluble or gluten proteins. This appears lo be the main reason for the superior breadmaking quality of the hard red spring wheat cultivar compared with the other species used in this study.


1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Smith ◽  
M. C. Shekleton ◽  
I. A. Wolff ◽  
Quentin Jones

1971 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 738-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT MYLROIE ◽  
HAROLD KOENIG

Purified neurosecretory granules (NG) from bovine neurohypophysis stain metachromatically with acridine orange. NG were sonicated in 0.2% Triton X-100. The soluble protein, 83% of the total protein, was separated by ultracentrifugal flotation in KBr into two lipoprotein (LP) fractions, a high density lipoprotein fraction (HDLP, D < 1.35 g/ml), 37%, and a very high density LP fraction (VHDLP, D > 1.35 g/ml), 63% of the total. The HDLP contained 0.46 mg phospholipid and 0.13 mg cholesterol/mg protein. The VHDLP contained 0.08 mg phospholipid and 0.025 mg cholesterol/mg protein. The amino acid composition of the delipidated LPs resembled that of bovine neurophysins. Disc gel electrophoresis resolved two major and four minor components of identical mobilities in HDLP and VHDLP. The major anodic components, 90% of the protein, and one minor cathodic component were sudanophilic, reduced iodine and stained metachromatically with acridine orange. The NG lysates prepared without detergent or sonication contained 52% of the total protein and phospholipid. The insoluble residue consisted of membrane profiles and had a different lipid and amino acid composition. Gel electrophoretograms of water extracts of NG revealed the same protein components present in Triton X-100 extracts. The major anodic bands and the cathodic band were colored by Sudan black B and iodine and stained metachromatically with acridine orange. Prior extraction of gels with chloroform-methanol (2/1, v/v) abolished these staining reactions. Neurophysins prepared by extraction of acetone-dried tissue with 0.1 N HCl contained about 7% of the phospholipid present in Triton X-100 extracts. Gel electrophoretograms of neurophysins disclosed the same protein constituents seen in Triton X-100 and water extracts of NG. The major components did not stain with Sudan black B or iodine but stained metachromatically with acridine orange due to the presence of residual phospholipid. Neurophysins are essentially apoproteins of these soluble acidic LPs.


1969 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
F. W. Martin ◽  
A. E. Thompson

The total protein of 38 yam (Dioscorea) cultivars, as tested by Kjeldahl methods, and their amino acid composition, determined by high temperature hydrolysis and GLC chromatography, are reported. Species and varieties differed in total protein and total amino acid contents. Proteins of four species, but not D. alata, were somewhat low in lysine. Proteins of all species were deficient in sulphur-containing amino acids, methionine, and especially cystine. Varietal differences, however, suggest that cultivars can be selected with more balanced protein.


2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Gercho Gerchev ◽  
Gyurga Mihaylova ◽  
G. Ouzounov

The amino acid composition of total protein in sheep milk obtained from ewes of Tsigai breed during the grazing season (April - July) in 2002 was determined. The variation in the amounts of total protein and the dry fat-free residue in the milk produced during the grazing season exercise impact on its amino acid composition. Generally, sheep milk had higher percentage of monoaminocarbonic acids ranging from 13.1% to 13.4%. The total amount of essential amino acids increases proportionally to the changes in the milk composition during the grazing season.


Botany ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingfen Zhang ◽  
Dongmei Qi ◽  
Xiaobing Dong ◽  
Xiaoxia Li ◽  
Liqin Cheng ◽  
...  

The protein content of plants is commonly estimated by multiplying the total nitrogen content (Kjeldahl; KN) by a nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor of 6.25. This method is based on the incorrect assumption that all nitrogen in the ammonia/ammonium and organic substances in plants is protein nitrogen, usually resulting in overestimation of protein content. We have examined amino acid composition, amino acid nitrogen, total nitrogen (KN), and actual protein content (AP) determined from amino acid residues in 16 accessions of perennial sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvelev). We determined a new nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor, kP, as the ratio of AP to KN, and applied this factor to estimate the total protein content (TP) as KN × kP. The non-protein nitrogen accounted for 40.5% to 62.4% of the total nitrogen. The average kP value was 3.17 overall, 3.20 in the accessions sampled at the jointing stage, and 3.15 in the accessions sampled at the flowering stage. The TP, calculated as KN × 3.17, was about half that of crude protein contents, calculated as KN × 6.25. Our study suggests that the AP-based kP of 3.17 can be used to more accurately estimate the total protein content in sheepgrass.


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