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[email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications STUDIES ON THE TARGETING AND PROCESSING OF PRORICIN. Michael Westby BSc. (Hons) Dunelm A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Biological Sciences University of Warwick Coventry. U.K. September, 1991 CONTENTS Page No. Contents i-vii List of Figures viii-xi List of Tables xi Acknowledgements xii Declaration xiii Abbreviations xiv-xvi Dedication xvii Summary xviii î.o ihtbodpctioh 1 1.1 Summary 2 1.2 Plant storage proteins 3 1.2.1 Introduction 3 1.2.2 Classification of plant storage proteins 4 1.2.3 Storage proteins of cereals 4 1.2.4 Storage proteins of dicots. 4 1.2.5 Subcellular site of storage protein deposition- the protein bodies 9 1.2.6 Synthesis as preproproteins 11 1.2.7 Summary 15 1.3 Intracellular trafficking of newly-synthesised proteins 16 1.3.1 Introduction 16 1.3.2 Membrane translocation as a first step in compartmentalisation 16 1.3.3 Translocation across the ER membrane 18 1.3.4 Co-translatlonal modifications 21 1.3.5 Protein folding in the ER 21 1.3.6 Protein export