Effects of frost hardening on the composition of galactolipids and phospholipids occurring during isolation of chloroplast thylakoids from needles of scots pine |
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Authors: | Eva Selstam Gunnar Öquist |
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Affiliation: | Department of Plant Physiology, University of Umeå, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Frost hardening of seedlings of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) at a non-freezing temperature of 4°C resulted in a 2-fold increase of the acyl lipids of the needles. This was because of increases in phospholipids and triglycerides. The galactolipid content of the needles was almost the same in unhardened and frost-hardened seedlings. In unhardened seedlings the mol ratio of monogalactosyl diacylglycerol (MGDG) to digalactosyl diacylglycerol (DGDG) was 1.7 ± 0.3 and 0.9 ± 0.2 in needles and isolated thylakoids, respectively. Corresponding ratios for frost-hardened seedlings were 1.5 ± 0.2 and 0.3 ± 0.03. The lower ratios found in isolated thylakoids, particularly in thylakoids from frost-hardened seedlings, are suggested to depend on the enzyme galactolipid: galactolipid galactosyltransferase being active during the isolation procedure. This is deduced from the result that the content of MGDG decreased and that of DGDG and 1.2 diglycerides increased. Needles of Scots pine also contain phospholipidase D. This enzyme was active during thylakoid preparation, particularly after frost hardening, as judged from the large amount of phosphatidic acid found the in thylakoid fraction isolated from frost-hardening needles. The fatty acid composition of the acyl lipids showed no major changes due to hardening at non-freezing temperature. |
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Keywords: | frost hardening galactolipids phospholipids phospholipase D galactolipid galactolipid galactosyl transferase Chl chlorophyll DGDG diaglactosyl diacylglycerol GLC gas-liquid chromatography MGDG monogalactosyl diacylglycerol PA phosphatidic acid PC phosphatidyl choline PE phosphatidyl ethanolamine PEG polyethylenglycol TLC thin-layer chromatography |
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