Welcome

The following website was created to disseminate data from NSF-Young Investigator Award Plant Genome Research program-funded research project DBI-0332418 "Proteomics of Seed-filling in Oilseeds" awarded October 1, 2003

 

Overview

Plant seeds are important renewable sources of natural products such as oil, protein, starch and fiber. Though the biosynthetic pathways for these storage compounds are mostly known, it is not clear how these pathways are regulated in oilseeds which produce higher quantities of oil and protein. To better understand the integrated processes ocurring during embryogenesis and seed-filling of select oilseeds, total proteins isolated from whole seeds at key developmental stages will be resolved, profiled and identified. Proteomic analysis of four diverse oilseeds, Arabidopsis, oilseed rape, castor and soybean will collectively provide more insight into seed-filling than analysis of any single oilseed.

What's New

Upcoming Proteomics workshop and symposium **save the dates**

High School Science Teaching Workshop on Proteomics, June 10-12, 2009 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Follow this link for registration information   2nd Annual MU Plant Proteomics Symposium, June 8-9, 2009. Registration brochure will be available soon. Please Register at this link.    Invited speakers and topics are below Sacha Baginsky (ETH Zurich) – Proteomics of Arabidopsis plastids Christoph Borchers (University of British Columbia) – Protein ubiquitinylation Frances DuPont (USDA-ARS) – wheat endosperm amyloplast proteomics Michael Goshe (North Carolina State University) - Data-Independent Methods for Quantitative Proteomics Susanne Hoffman-Benning (Michigan State University) - Identification and characterization of novel chloroplast envelope proteins Jesus Jorrin (University of Córdoba) - Proteomics of plant development and response to stresses Thierry Meinnel (Institut des Sciences du Végétal) - Proteomics of plant acylation and related modifications Bill Plaxton (Queens University) - Regulatory monoubiquitination of castor bean phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase Julian Whitelegge (UCLA) – Top-down proteomics Dong Xu (University of Missouri – Columbia) - Bioinformatics analysis and prediction of protein phosphorylation in plants

Software tools

• SpotLink: create a 2-D gel web database similar to www.oilseedproteomics.missouri.edu with this tool. Alpha software for developing web pages from a gel image and associated information about each protein spot.
• DecoyDBCreator: create decoy search databases (FASTA) for peptide/protein identification from mass spectrometry data. It supports the creation of reversed and randomized decoy databases from any custom FASTA protein database. Requires Java 6 install.

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