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Mature forms of the major seed storage albumins in sunflower: A mass spectrometric approach.

Abstract：

UNLABELLED:Seed storage albumins are abundant, water-soluble proteins that are degraded to provide critical nutrients for the germinating seedling. It has been established that the sunflower albumins encoded by SEED STORAGE ALBUMIN 2 (SESA2), SESA20 and SESA3 are the major components of the albumin-rich fraction of the common sunflower Helianthus annuus. To determine the structure of sunflowers most important albumins we performed a detailed chromatographic and mass spectrometric characterization to assess what post-translational processing they receive prior to deposition in the protein storage vacuole. We found that SESA2 and SESA20 each encode two albumins. The first of the two SESA2 albumins (SESA2-1) exists as a monomer of 116 or 117 residues, differing by a threonine at the C-terminus. The second of the two SESA2 albumins (SESA2-2) is a monomer of 128 residues. SESA20 encodes the albumin SESA20-2, which is a 127-residue monomer, whereas SESA20-1 was not abundant enough to be structurally described. SESA3, which has been partly characterized previously, was found in several forms with methylation of its asparagine residues. In contrast to other dicot albumins, which are generally matured into a heterodimer, all the dominant mature sunflower albumins SESA2, SESA20-2, SESA3 and its post-translationally modified analogue SESA3-a are monomeric. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE:Sunflower plants have been bred to thrive in various climate zones making them favored crops to meet the growing worldwide demand by humans for protein. The abundance of seed storage proteins makes them an important source of protein for animal and human nutrition. This study explores the structures of the dominant sunflower napin-type seed storage albumins to understand what structures evolution has favored in the most abundant proteins in sunflower seed.

journal_name

J Proteomics

journal_title

Journal of proteomics

authors

Franke B,Colgrave ML,Mylne JS,Rosengren KJ

doi

10.1016/j.jprot.2016.05.004

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-09-16 00:00:00

pages

177-186

eissn

1874-3919

issn

1876-7737

pii

S1874-3919(16)30190-7

journal_volume

147

pub_type

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Mature forms of the major seed storage albumins in sunflower: A mass spectrometric approach.