Stroma protein Extraction from Arabidopsis

Protocol from CO-EXPRESSED WITH PSI ASSEMBLY1 (CEPA1) is a photosystem I assembly factor in Arabidopsis. David Rolo, Omar Sandoval-Ibáñez, Wolfram Thiele, Mark A Schöttler, Ines Gerlach, Reimo Zoschke, Joram Schwartzmann, Etienne H Meyer, Ralph Bock. Plant Cell. 2024 Oct 3; 36(10):4179-4211.doi: 10.1093/plcell/koae042.

 

Uncovering the photosystem I assembly pathway in land plants. Aihong Zhang, Lin Tian, Tong Zhu, Mengyu Li, Mengwei Sun, Ying Fang, Yi Zhang, Congming Lu. Nat Plants. 2024 Apr; 10 (4):645-660. doi: 10.1038/s41477-024-01658-3. Epub 2024 Mar 19.

 

RESISTANCE TO PHYTOPHTHORA1 promotes cytochrome b559 formation during early photosystem II biogenesis in Arabidopsis. Li-Ping Che, Junxiang Ruan, Qiang Xin, Lin Zhang, Fudan Gao, Lujuan Cai, Jianing Zhang, Shiwei Chen, Hui Zhang, Jean-David Rochaix, Lianwei Peng. Plant Cell. 2024 Oct 3; 36(10):4143-4167.doi: 10.1093/plcell/koae196.

Procedure:

  1. Collect 1g of Arabidopsis leaves, add them to 20ml of Medicine I+BSA+ASA solution, and crush them with a homogenizer;
  2. Filter the above liquid through filter membranes, then centrifuge at 4,200g at 4 ℃ for 5 minutes;
  3. Discard the supernatant, suspend the precipitate in 1ml of Medium II, then centrifuge at 8,000g at 4 ℃ for 2 minutes;
  4. Discard the supernatant, suspend the precipitate in 1ml Medium II-sorbitol, centrifuge at 8,000g at 4 ℃ for 2 minutes; the supernatant is the stroma protein.
  5. Protein concentration was determined using Bio-rad-Quick Start Bradford 1x Dye (Bio-Rad, 5000205). The stroma protein was solubilized in 2×sample buffer.

 

Solutions Required

 

Medium I                         

0.33M  Sorbitol (M=182.17)                           60.12g

30mM  Tricine/KOH  (0.5M, pH 8.4)            40ml

5 mM  EDTA  (0.25M, pH 8.35)                      20ml

10 mM  NaHCO3  (M=84.01)                          20ml

                                                                                               

                                                       Add ddH2O to 1L

 

Medium II+sorbitol                       

0.3M  Sorbitol (M=182.17)                            13.66g

20mM  Hepes/KOH  (1M, pH 7.6)                  5ml

2.5 mM  EDTA  (0.5M, pH 8.0)                    1.25ml

5 mM  MgCl2  (M=203.3)                          0.255g

                                                                                               

                                              Add ddH2O to 250ml

 

Medium II-sorbitol                 

20mM  Hepes/KOH  (1M, pH 7.6)                  5ml

2.5 mM  EDTA  (0.5M, pH 8.0)                    1.25ml

5 mM  MgCl2  (M=203.3)                          0.255g

                                                                                               

                                               Add ddH2O to 100ml

 

Medium I+ASA+BSA        

1.87M    Ascorbate                                         20ul

10%      BSA                                                     200ul

Medium I                                                        20ml