alpha-linolenic acid biosynthesis in Cyanidium caldarium. |
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Authors: | C J Bedord V McMahon B Adams |
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Affiliation: | Division of Biochemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Although α-linolenic acid is nearly absent from Cyanidium caldarium cultured at 53 °C, it is the most abundant unsaturated fatty acid in 20 °C-grown cells. A sudden growth temperature shift of 55 to 25 °C does not stimulate the immediate biosynthesis of α-linolenic acid. However, after an induction period of 48 h, synthesis of α-linolenic acid from acetate can be detected, and the fatty acid accumulates in phosphatidyl choline and sulfolipid. The newly synthesized α-linolenic acid appears to be formed primarily by de novo synthesis and to a much lesser extent from the elongation of a previously formed hexadecatrienoic acid precursor. On the other hand, when a cell-free algal preparation was presented with a hexadecatrienoic acid precursor in the presence of [14C] malonyl-CoA, the α-linolenic acid formed demonstrated a synthesis by elongation of the precursor. While the cell appears enzymatically capable of α-linolenic acid biosynthesis by both the de novo and elongation processes, de novo synthesis of α-linolenic acid appears to be the more significant mode of synthesis. |
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