In this chapter, we describe a method to extract and quantify photosynthetic enzymes using sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and immunoblotting. The method is particularly suitable for characterizing altered… Click to show full abstract
In this chapter, we describe a method to extract and quantify photosynthetic enzymes using sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and immunoblotting. The method is particularly suitable for characterizing altered protein amounts in leaves of plants produced from genetic engineering or gene-editing approaches. We focus on RuBisCO and RuBisCO activase, a molecular chaperone required to sustain the activity of RuBisCO and CO2 fixation, yet the method can be easily adapted to investigate other leaf proteins of interest.
               
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