Theresa D. Kennedy

The wheat-germ Ec protein is a zinc-containing metallothionein

Wheat Ec metallothionein genes. Like mammalian Zn2+ metallothionein genes, wheat Zn2+ metallothionein genes are conspicuously expressed during embryogenesis.

Germin isoforms are discrete temporal markers of wheat development. Pseudogermin is a uniquely thermostable water-soluble oligomeric protein in ungerminated embryos and like germin in germinated embryos, it is incorporated into cell walls.

Covalently bonded and adventitious glycans in germin.

Synthesis and turnover of proteins and mRNA in germinating wheat embryos

Germin: compartmentation of two forms of the protein by washing growing wheat embryos

Polypeptide structure of germin as deduced from cDNA sequencing.

Germin: physicochemical properties of the glycoprotein which signals onset of growth in the germinating wheat embryo

Preparation and analysis of mass amounts of germin: demonstration that the protein which signals the onset of growth in germinating wheat is a glycoprotein

Wheat embryo ribonucleates. XIV. Mass isolation of mRNA from wheat germ and comparison of its translational capacity with that of mRNA from imbibing wheat embryos