LOW TEMPERATURE-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN THE CHLOROPLAST AND MICROSOMAL-MEMBRANES OF DUNALIELLA-SALINA
LOW TEMPERATURE-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN THE CHLOROPLAST AND MICROSOMAL-MEMBRANES OF DUNALIELLA-SALINA
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DOI:
10.1104/pp.69.6.1369
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
THOMPSON, GA
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作者:
LYNCH, DV;THOMPSON, GA
The metabolic regulation of membrane lipid composition was examined using the cell wall-less, unicellular green alga D. salina (UTEX 1644) as a model system. Low temperature stress was employed to initiate and study the regulatory response. When cultures growing logarithmically at 30.degree. C were chilled to 12.degree. C, cell division ceased for .apprx. 100 h and then the cells resumed logarithmic growth at a slower rate. The phospholipid, glycolipid and protein content, on a per cell basis, was, in each case, .apprx. 20% higher in cells grown at 12.degree. C. The volume of the 12.degree. C-acclimated cells was 2.8 times that of 30.degree. C-grown cells. The quantity of chloroplast membrane, as determined by morphometric analysis, was 20% greater, whereas the content of microsomal membrane material was more elevated, being .apprx. 2.8 times that of 30.degree. C-grown cells. Lipid compositional analyses were carried out on purified chloroplasts and microsomes isolated from Dunaliella grown at 30 and 12.degree. C and from cells 12 and 60 h following a shift from 30 to 12.degree. C. In chloroplast and microsomal phospholipids fatty acid unsaturation increased during acclimation to low temperature. Microsomal phospholipids responded more quickly and to a greater extent than did chloroplast phospholipids. Despite these alterations, little change in the relative proportions of phospholipid classes occurred in either cell fraction. Chloroplast glycolipids responded to low temperature by significantly increasing the proportion of 1 specific class, digalactosyl diglycerides, relative to monogalactosyl diglycerides, while showing minimal change in fatty acid distribution within any given glycolipid class. The ease and rapidity with which Dunaliella cells can be manipulated with respect to environmental stress and isolation of intact cell organelles makes it particularly well suited for research on intermembrane lipid dynamics within the plant cell.