Formation of phospholipids from sn-glycerol-3-phosphate and free fatty acids or their derivatives by homogenates of soybean cotyledons |
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Authors: | RJ Porra |
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Institution: | Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, P.O. Box 1600, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601, Australia |
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Abstract: | Cell-free homogenates of soybean cotyledons contain a sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase system which incorporated U-14C]-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate into 5 labelled lipids when incubated with palmitic acid in the presence of ATP and CoA. In decreasing order of incorporation of label, the lipids were: lysophosphatidic acid, monoacylglycerol, phosphatidic acid, diacylglycerol and triacylglycerol. The substrate specificity of the acyltransferase system was investigated with the fatty acids shown in order of decreasing rates of reaction; palmitate > stearate > oleate > linoleate > linolenate > laurate. Making these acids more soluble as triethanolamine salts or as polyoxyethylene sorbitan esters did not greatly enhance these rates of reaction. Activity was found in a 10000 g pellet containing plastids, mitochondria and glyoxysomes and also in the lipid layer; the activity in these particulate fractions was enhanced by the addition of cytosol which itself had little activity when gentle methods of cell disruption were used. During cotyledon development the total acyltransferase activity increased, although its specific activity slowly declined due to more rapid synthesis of other proteins. During germination total activity decreased but there was a transient increase in specific activity due to more rapid degradation of other proteins. |
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Keywords: | Leguminosae soybean acyltransferase activity formation of phosphatidates and acylglycerols cotyledon development seed germination fatty acid specificity intracellular distribution |
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