The protein complement of chloroplasts, prochromoplasts, chromoplasts, and mitochondria of the daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) has been investigated comparatively by gel electrophoresis. Mitochondria do not share common proteins with plastids. On the other hand, there is a broad overlap of the protein complement of the three plastid types investigated, in spite of their different fine structures. There are, however, remarkable differences regarding the relative amounts of many protein species, and certain plastid proteins are entirely absent either from the chloroplasts (e.g., 2 chromoplast proteins in the 60 kDa range) or the chromoplasts (e.g., LHCP). The protein complement of prochromoplasts, which contain chlorophylls and the LHCP, is nevertheless quite more similar to the protein pattern of the chromoplasts than to the one of the chloroplasts.
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Hansmann et al. (1984) studied this question.