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  • Title: Studies on thermal adaptation in Tetrahymena membrane lipids. Positional distribution of fatty acid in diacyl- and alkyl-acyl-phosphatidylcholines and -(2-aminoethyl)phosphonolipids from cells grown at different temperatures.
    Author: Watanabe T, Fukushima H, Nozawa Y.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1980 Oct 06; 620(1):133-41. PubMed ID: 7417476.
    Abstract:
    Phosphatidylcholine and 2-aminoethylphosphonolipid, major membrane phospholipids in Tetrahymena, comprise 1,2-diacyl and 1-alkyl-2-acyl moieties, whereas phosphatidylethanolamine is solely in diacyl form. The overall fatty acid composition of phosphatidylcholine and 2-aminoethylphosphonolipid fractions from 15 degrees C-grown cells mainly consisted of linoleic (C18 : 2 delta 9,12) and gamma-linolenic (C18 : 3 delta 6,9,12) acids, except for the large amount of an usual fatty acid, cilienic acid (C18 : 2 delta 6,11) in 2-aminoethylphosphonolipids. When compared with 39.5 degrees C-grown cells, the 1-position of phosphatidylcholine and 2-aminoethylphosphonolipid from 15 degrees C-grown cells undergoes a large increase in palmitoleic (C16 : 1 delta 9) and gamma-linolenic acids with a corresponding decrease of myristic (C14 : 0) and palmitic (C16 : 0) acids. At the 2-position of 15 degrees C-grown cells, linoleic and gamma-linolenic acids in phosphatidylcholine, and cilienic and linoleic acids in 2-aminoethylphosphonolipid increase with a large decrease of palmitoleic acid in both phospholipids and of gamma-linolenic acid in 2-aminoethylphosphonolipid. There was quite a similarity in fatty acid composition between 1,2-diacylphosphatidylcholine and 1,2-diacyl-(2-aminoethyl)phosphonolipid in 39.5 degrees C- and 15 degrees C-grown cells. However, a marked increase of gamma-linolenic acid at the 1-position of 1,2-diacyl-phosphatidylcholine, and of linoleic acid at the 2-position of diacyl-aminoethylphosphonolipid was observed in 15 degrees C-grown cells. The 2-position of 1-alkyl-2-acyl-phosphatidylcholine and 1-alkyl-2-acyl-(2-aminoethyl)phosphonolipid was occupied mainly by unsaturated fatty acids. In 15 degrees C-grown cells, the sum of linoleic and gamma-linolenic acids accounted for 79.9% in 1-alkyl-2-acyl-phosphatidylcholine and 87.1% in 1-alkyl-2-acyl-(2-aminoethyl)phosphonolipid. These data support the hypothesis that 2-aminoethylphosphonolipid and phosphatidylcholine would play an important role as acceptors of polyunsaturated fatty acids (C18 : 2 delta 6,11, C18 : 2 delta 9,12 and C18: 3 delta 6,9,12) for temperature acclimation. Furthermore, changes in the ratio of diacyl- to alkyl-acylphosphatidylcholine may also be involved in thermal adaptation by regulating the number of fatty acid acceptor.
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