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ArticlePlanta2010

Evaluation of chloroform/methanol extraction to facilitate the study of membrane proteins of non-model plants.

Annelies Vertommen, Bart Panis, Rony Swennen, Sebastien Christian Carpentier

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Article in Planta, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Annelies VertommenDivision of Crop Biotechnics, Department of Biosystems, K U Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Annelies.vertommen@biw.kuleuven.be
Bart Panis
Rony Swennen
Sebastien Christian Carpentier
KU Leuven · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membrane proteins are of great interest to plant physiologists because of their important function in many physiological processes. However, their study is hampered by their low abundance and poor solubility in aqueous buffers. Proteomics studies of non-model plants are generally restricted to gel-based methods. Unfortunately, all gel-based techniques for membrane proteomics lack resolving power. Therefore, a very stringent enrichment method is needed before protein separation. In this study, protein extraction in a mixture of chloroform and methanol in combination with gel electrophoresis is evaluated as a method to study membrane proteins in non-model plants. Benefits as well as disadvantages of the method are discussed. To demonstrate the pitfalls of working with non-model plants and to give a proof of principle, the method was first applied to whole leaves of the model plant Arabidopsis. Subsequently, a comparison with proteins extracted from leaves of the non-model plant, banana, was made. To estimate the tissue and organelle specificity of the method, it was also applied on banana meristems. Abundant membrane or lipid-associated proteins could be identified in both tissues, with the leaf extract yielding a higher number of membrane proteins.

Indexed as

Cell ExtractsChemical FractionationChloroformElectrophoresis, Gel, Two-DimensionalMembrane ProteinsMeristemMethanolModels, BiologicalMusaPlant LeavesPlant ProteinsReproducibility of ResultsSolubilityCell ExtractsChloroformMembrane ProteinsMethanolPlant Proteins

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PMID20177697
PMCPMC2840667
OpenAlexW1993003325

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