Revised structure of beauvellide a cyclodepsipeptide from Beauveria tenella

Phytochemistry
1978.0

Abstract

Aminopeptidases were investigated in protein extracts of dormant and germinated peanut cotyledons by electrophoretic immunochemical techniques. Considerable activity was observed in protein zones that migrated toward the anode after simple electrophoresis. Of the immunogenic proteins in dormant seed, aminopeptidase activity was associated only with the immunocomplex of α₁-conarachin, a globular protein in peanuts. The specific aminopeptidase activity of total extracts was marginally higher than that of purified α₁-conarachin. Specific isoenzyme(s) adsorption on the antigen-antibody complex of α₁-conarachin might be attributed in part, to these phenomena. Reactions of protein extracts from germinated cotyledons with immune sera made against protein in germinated tissues-roots and cotyledons--showed the identical associative interaction. Some of the determinant groups on α₁-conarachin in the germ and cotyledon were apparently maintained during early phases of germination.

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