I'm interested in the answer to Bob's question too, but would also
appreciate any suggestions on a project of this sort that could be
expanded into a multi-week investigation, including Westerns perhaps,
in which students could hypothesize about the impact of some treatment
on expression of the protein. Maybe also link to measuring activity of
enzyme in parallel.
Carl Pike
Department of Biology
Franklin and Marshall College
On Apr 21, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Bob Wise wrote:
> Dear Plant Edders,
>> I need help. One of the exercises I use in my plant physiology
> teaching lab is the standard old expression of amylases during wheat
> seed germination. We take seeds germinated for 0 to 3 days, extract
> total soluble protein and then run SDS-PAGE.
>> The goal is to monitor the increase in the abundance of a-amylase
> during germination. The problem is that the bands don't get any
> darker with germination time. I have repeated the lab several times,
> and changed to fresh seeds twice, yet I still cannot get an increase
> in a-amylase expression. The seeds are perfectly viable and work
> quite well in a starch-digestion assay that forms the basis of a
> separate lab exercise.
>> Has anyone had success with this one? Carol Reiss, are you out there?
>> On the other hand, if this one is a bust, does anyone have a lab that
> uses SDS-PAGE to show differential expression of plant proteins? How
> about a light vs. dark treatment to look for the increase in LHC
> proteins during greening? All I need is an electrophoresis lab that
> clearly demonstrates protein synthesis during some plant developmental
> or physiological process. I would rather not do Westerns, due to time
> constraints.
>> TIA
>> Bob
>> --
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