Journal of Plant Biotechnology

The Korean Society of Plant Biotechnology (한국식물생명공학회)
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Analysis of Thermotolerance in Hot Pepper Using the Antiserum Against Carrot HSP17

  • Published : 2001.01.01
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Abstract

An antiserum against the carrot HSP17 (17 KDa heat shock protein) was raised using the HSP17 purified after being expressed in a recombinant E.coli in order to develop an assay system for thermotolerance in crops. The DCHsp17.7 including the coding sequence corresponding to a carrot HSP17 protein was recombined within pET-32(b) vector and achieved a maximum expression in 4 hours after an induction in E.coli. The purified DCHsp17.7 was used as an antigen to generate the corresponding antibody. The polyclonal antiserum was confirmed for it's specificity only to the low molecular weight (1mw) HSP. Besides, the possibilities to use the antiserum to interact with 1mwHSPs from other plants such as rice, cucumber, tomato, and hot pepper were examined to be plausible. To reveal any specific correlation between the amounts of 1mwHSP expressed upon HS conditions and an acquisition of thermotolerance two different approaches have been applied. first, it has been shown that only the pre-HS conditions inducing the synthesis of HSP17 allowed for the seedlings to achieve an thermotolerance and to survive the following lethal condition. Second, a western analysis using 15 different collected lines of hot peppers was performed to distinguish each other in terms of the amount of 1mwHSP. The results indicated that all 14 hot pepper lines were able to synthesize HSPs in response to an exposure to HS conditions and the amounts of the proteins synthesized at different HS temperatures were variable among the lines. There are several different patterns of 1mwHSP synthesized as a function of temperature increase observed and their correlation to physiological aspects of thermotolerance remains to be analyzed.

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