Thermal phase transitions in the polar lipids of plant membranes. Their induction by disaturated phospholipids and their possible relation to chilling injury |
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Authors: | John K. Raison L.C. Wright |
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Affiliation: | Plant Physiology Group, CSIRO Division of Food Research and School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2113 Australia |
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Abstract: | The phase behaviour of leaf polar lipids from three plants, varying in their sensitivity to chilling, was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry. For the lipids from mung bean (Vigna radiata L. var. Berken), a chilling-sensitive plant, a transition exotherm was detected beginning at . No exotherm was evident above 0°C with polar lipids from wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Falcon) or pea (Pisum sativum cv. Massey Gem), plants which are insensitive to chilling. The enthalpy for the transition in the mung bean polar lipids indicated that only about 7% w/w of the lipid was in the gel phase at ?8°C. The thermal transition of the mung bean lipids was mimicked by wheat and pea polar lipids after the addition of 1 to 2% w/w of a relatively high melting-point lipid such as dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine, dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol or dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine. Analysis of the polar lipids from the three plants showed that a dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol was present in mung bean (1.7% w/w) and pea (0.3% w/w) but undetected in wheat, indicating that the transition exotherm temperature of 10°C in mung bean, 0°C in pea and about ?3°C in wheat correlates with the proportion of the high melting-point disaturated component in the polar lipids. The results indicate that the transition exotherm, observed at temperatures above 0°C in the membranes of chilling-sensitive plants, could be induced by small amounts of high melting-point lipids and involves only a small proportion of the membrane polar lipids. |
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Keywords: | Phase transition Polar lipid Differential scanning calorimetry Chilling damage (Plant membrane) DGDG digalactosyl diacylglycerol DMPC dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine DOPC dioleoylphosphatidylcholine DPPE dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine DPPC dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine DPPG dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol HPLC high performance liquid chromatography MGDG monogalactosyl diacylglycerol PLPC 1-palmitoyl-2-linoleoylphosphatidylcholine POPC 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoylphosphatidylcholine |
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