This article reported the induction, purification and identification of a pathogenesis-related protein from the intercellular fluids of cucumber seedlings, which were treated with benzothiadiazole (BTH) or
Pseudoperonospora cubensis. Our results demonstrated that both BTH treatment and Pseudoperonospora cubensis inoculation could induce the exp ression of a 27 kD p rotein in intercellular fluids of cucumber leaves. This protein was purified by electroelution combined with SDS - PAGE, and analyzed by MALDI-TOF MS. The obtained pep tide mass fingerp rinting ( PMF) was searched in the protein data bank, indicating that it was an acidic chitinase. This was confirmed further by the assay of chitinase activity andWestern blotting.
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