Cryoprotectin protects thylakoids during a freeze-thaw cycle by a mechanism involving stable membrane binding |
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Authors: | Sror Hany A M Tischendorf Gilbert Sieg Frank Schmitt Jürgen M Hincha Dirk K |
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Institution: | Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie und Mikrobiologie, Freie Universit?t, K?nigin Luise Str. 12-16, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Chloroplast thylakoid membranes of higher plants are damaged by freezing both in vivo and in vitro. The resulting inactivation of photosynthetic electron transport has been related to transient membrane rupture, leading to the loss of soluble electron transport proteins and osmotically active solutes from the thylakoid lumen. We have recently purified and sequenced a protein from cold acclimated cabbage, that protects thylakoids from this freeze-thaw damage. The protein belongs to the WAX9 family of nonspecific lipid transfer proteins, but has no detectable lipid transfer activity. Conversely, other transport-active lipid transfer proteins show no cryoprotective activity. We show here that cryoprotectin binds to thylakoid membranes. Both cryoprotective activity and membrane binding were inhibited in the presence of specific sugars, most effectively by Glc-6-S. The binding of cryoprotectin to thylakoids reduced the fluidity of the membrane lipids close to the membrane/solution interface, but not in the hydrophobic core region. Using immobilized liposomes we could show that cryoprotectin was able to bind to pure lipid membranes. |
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Keywords: | Brassica oleracea Cold acclimation Cryoprotectin Frost tolerance Lipid transfer protein Protein-membrane interactions |
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