Synthesis of large subunit of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase by thylakoid-bound polyribosomes from spinach chloroplasts |
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Authors: | T Hattori M M Margulies |
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Affiliation: | Environmental Research Center, Smithsonian Institution, 12441 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20852-1773 USA |
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Abstract: | Intact chloroplasts were isolated from developing first leaves of spinach. The chloroplasts were broken and separated into an extensively washed membrane (thylakoid) fraction and a soluble (stroma) fraction. The membrane fraction contained polyribosomes with properties similar to those of thylakoid-bound polyribosomes of other organisms. The distribution of mRNA for large-subunit ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase (LS) was determined by translating RNA from chloroplasts, thylakoids, and stroma in a wheat germ cell-free translation system. LS translation product was identified by immunoprecipitation with antibody to LS from spinach, electrophoresis of the immunoprecipitated product, and fluorography. At least 44% of translatable chloroplast LS-mRNA was in the washed thylakoid fraction. Thylakoid-bound LS-mRNA was in polyribosomes since LS was produced by thylakoids in an Escherichia coli cell-free translation system under conditions where initiation did not take place. Our results demonstrate that membrane-bound polyribosomes can synthesize the stroma-localized polypeptide LS, and suggest that the thylakoids may be an important site of its synthesis. |
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