WATER-PERMEABILITY OF YEAST-CELLS AT SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES
WATER-PERMEABILITY OF YEAST-CELLS AT SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01961376
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
CRAVALHO, EG
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作者:
LEVIN, RL;USHIYAMA, M;CRAVALHO, EG
A combined cryomicroscopic-multiple nonlinear regression analysis technique was used to determine the water permeability of the yeast cell Saccharomyces cerevisiae during freezing. The time rate of change in volume of supercooled yeast cells was photographically monitored using a cryomicroscope which is capable of controlling in a programmable manner the temperature and the time rate of change in temperature of the cell suspension being studied. Multiple nonlinear regression analysis together with a thermodynamic model of cell water transport during freezing was then used to statistically deduce the subzero temperature dependence of the cell water permeability. The water permeability process for S. cerevisiae being cooled at subzero temperatures was rate-limited by the passage of water through either the plasmalemma, the cell wall, or a combination of these 2 permeability barriers. The hydraulic water permeability coefficient for yeast at 20.degree. C is approximately 1-2 .times. 10-13 cm3/dynes if extrapolation from subzero temperatures to room temperature is permissible, while the apparent activation energy governing the permeability process at subzero temperatures is approximated 45-68 kj/mol (11-16 kcal/mol).