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12077151

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
35
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-8-30
pubmed:abstractText
A sensitive approach based on electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry has been employed to profile membrane lipid molecular species in Arabidopsis undergoing cold and freezing stresses. Freezing at a sublethal temperature induced a decline in many molecular species of phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) but induced an increase in phosphatidic acid (PA) and lysophospholipids. To probe the metabolic steps generating these changes, lipids of Arabidopsis deficient in the most abundant phospholipase D, PLD alpha, were analyzed. The PC content dropped only half as much, and PA levels rose only half as high in the PLD alpha-deficient plants as in wild-type plants. In contrast, neither PE nor PG levels decreased significantly more in wild-type plants than in PLD alpha-deficient plants. These data suggest that PC, rather than PE and PG, is the major in vivo substrate of PLD alpha. The action of PLD alpha during freezing is of special interest because Arabidopsis plants that are deficient in PLD alpha have improved tolerance to freezing. The greater loss of PC and increase in PA in wild-type plants as compared with PLD alpha-deficient plants may be responsible for destabilizing membrane bilayer structure, resulting in a greater propensity toward membrane fusion and cell death in wild-type plants.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
277
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
31994-2002
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Profiling membrane lipids in plant stress responses. Role of phospholipase D alpha in freezing-induced lipid changes in Arabidopsis.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Biology, Ackert Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA. welti@ksu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't