Proteomic analysis of the pulvinus, a heliotropic tissue, in Glycine max

Submitted: 24 May 2013
Accepted: 23 April 2014
Published: 23 June 2014
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Certain plant species respond to light, dark, and other environmental factors by leaf movement. Leguminous plants both track and avoid the sun through turgor changes of the pulvinus tissue at the base of leaves. Mechanisms leading to pulvinar turgor flux, particularly knowledge of the proteins involved, are not well-known. In this study we used two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and liquid chromatography-tandom mass spectrometry to separate and identify the proteins located in the soybean pulvinus. A total of 183 spots were separated and 195 proteins from 165 spots were identified and functionally analyzed using single enrichment analysis for gene ontology terms. The most significant terms were related to proton transport. Comparison with guard cell proteomes revealed similar significant processes but a greater number of pulvinus proteins are required for comparable analysis. To our knowledge, this is a novel report on the analysis of proteins found in soybean pulvinus. These findings provide a better understanding of the proteins required for turgor change in the pulvinus.

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Lee, H., Garrett, W. M., Sullivan, J., Forseth, I., & Natarajan, S. S. (2014). Proteomic analysis of the pulvinus, a heliotropic tissue, in Glycine max. International Journal of Plant Biology, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2014.4887