[Arabidopsis] Isolation of plastid protein

[Jerry D. Cohen]

Take a look at this article and see if it helps:

Methods Mol Biol. 
2007;355:43-8.<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/fref.fcgi?itool=AbstractPlus-def&PrId=3129&uid=17093301&db=PubMed&url=http://biomed.humanapress.com/ChapterDetail.pasp?medline=1-59745-227-0:43>
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Isolation of chloroplast proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana for 
proteome analysis.

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Search&itool=pubmed_AbstractPlus&term=%22van+Wijk+KJ%22%5BAuthor%5D>van 
Wijk KJ,
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Search&itool=pubmed_AbstractPlus&term=%22Peltier+JB%22%5BAuthor%5D>Peltier 
JB,
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Search&itool=pubmed_AbstractPlus&term=%22Giacomelli+L%22%5BAuthor%5D>Giacomelli 
L.
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

This chapter describes a simple protocol for large-scale chloroplast 
purification for proteome analysis. The protocol has not been tested 
for protein import activity but is optimized for chloroplast proteome 
yield and purity and minimal protein degradation.

PMID: 17093301 [PubMed - in process]


At 01:05 PM 1/19/2007, Yu Xiaomin wrote:
>Dear all,
>   I am trying to isolate plastid proteins instead of total proteins from
>Arabidopsis but I do not have any clues. My thought is to identify the
>subcellular location of the expressed proteins. If you have any idea or
>protocols, please send it to me.
>   Thank you very much in advance for your helpful reply.
>
>Xiaomin Yu
>
>
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