Light stimulates the accumulation of cytoplasmic and plastid rRNA in the cotyledons of mustard (Sinapis alba L.) seedlings. This effect is mediated by phytochrome. Continuous far red irradiation and brief red light pulses (the effect of which is reversible by brief far red light pulses) increase the amount of 1.3 x 10(6) + 0.7 x 10(6) and 1.1 x 10(6) + 0.56 x 10(6) molecular weight rRNA species...

Hydroxycinnamoyltransferases which catalyze the formation of O-sinapoylcholine (sinapine) using l-0-sinapoyl-ß-D-glucose as acyl donor have been isolated from seeds of radish (Raphanus sativus L. var. sativus) and mustard (Sinapis alba L.) and purified 420and 293-fold, respectively. The enzymes (“sinapine synthase”) had apparent molecular weights of about 60,000 daltons and showed highest activ...

Myrosinase from white mustard seeds (Sinapis alba) has been purified starting from aqueous crude extract in a single step by affinity chromatography on Con A-Sepharose. The specific activity, recovery, and binding capacity in four separate trials using glucose, mannose, methyl a-D-glucoside, and methyl a-D-mannoside for elution were also determined. The enzyme isolated by our approach showed a ...

The influence of phytochrome (high irradiance reaction; operationally, continuous far red light) on the incorporation of [(3)H]uridine into the cytoplasmic 2.5 megadalton precursor rRNA in the cotyledons of mustard (Sinapis alba L.) seedlings has been investigated. After irradiating 36-hour-old etiolated seedlings with 12 hours of far red light, the rate of incorporation is stimulated about 2-f...

Ming Zeng,1 Min Chen,1, 2, ∗ Zheng-Ming Sheng,1, 2, † Warren B. Mori,3, 4 and Jie Zhang1, 5 1Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China 2Department of Mathematics, Institute of Natural Sciences, and MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 20040, China 3Department of Electrical Engi...

Zheng-Gao Dong,1,2,* Jie Zhu,2 Xiaobo Yin,2 Jiaqi Li,1 Changgui Lu,2 and Xiang Zhang2 1Physics Department and Key Laboratory of MEMS of the Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China 25130 Etcheverry Hall, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-1740, USA (Received 6 December 2012; revised manuscript received 23 Apri...

The developed duplex real-time PCR method allows the simultaneous detection of traces of potentially allergenic white mustard (Sinapis alba) and celery roots (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum), celery stalks (A. g. var. dulce) and leaf celery (A. g. var. secalinum). The duplex assay does not show any cross-reactivity with 64 different biological species, including various members of the Brassicac...

CYP83B1 from Arabidopsis thaliana has been identified as the oxime-metabolizing enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway of glucosinolates. Biosynthetically active microsomes isolated from Sinapis alba converted p-hydroxyphenylacetaldoxime and cysteine into S-alkylated p-hydroxyphenylacetothiohydroximate, S-(p-hydroxyphenylacetohydroximoyl)-l-cysteine, the next proposed intermediate in the glucosinol...

Two cDNA clones, encoding cytosolic and chloroplast glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases (GAPDH) from mustard (Sinapis alba), have been identified and sequenced. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences with one another and with the GAPDH sequences from animals, yeast and bacteria demonstrates that nucleus-encoded subunit A of chloroplast GAPDH is distinct from its cytosolic counterp...