Acquisition of desiccation tolerance in developing wheat embryos correlates with appearance of a fluid phase in membranes

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1815-1826

  Golovina, E A ^a,b   Hoekstra, F A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TIMIRYAZEV INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amphiphile partitioning; Dehydration; Electron paramagnetic resonance; Fluidization; Membrane integrity; Mobility; Ordering effect; Spin probes; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

DESICCATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE; WHEAT;

TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0346433695     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.2003.01098.x     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Aloia R.C., Curtain C.C. & Gordon L.M. (eds) (1988) Physiological Regulation of Membrane Fluidity (Advances in Membrane Fluidity Vol. 3). Alan R. Liss, New York, USA.
2. Bales B.L. & Leon V. (1978) Magnetic resonance studies of eukaryotic cells. III. Spin labeled fatty acids in the plasma membrane. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 509, 90-99.
3. Barratt M.D. & Laggner P. (1974) The pH-dependence of ESR spectra from nitroxide probes in lecithin dispersions. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 363, 127-133.
4. Bartels D. & Salamini F. (2001) Desiccation tolerance in the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum. A contribution to the study of drought tolerance at the molecular level. Plant Physiology 127, 1346-1353.
5. Bartucci R., Gulfo N. & Sportelli L. (1990) Effect of high electrolyte concentration on the phase transition behaviour of DPPC vesicles: a spin label study. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1025, 117-121.
6. Berliner L.J. (1976) Spin Labeling: Theory and Applications. Academic Press, New York, USA.
7. Bianchi G., Gamba A., Limiroli R., Pozzi N., Elster R., Salamini F. & Bartels D. (1993) The unusual sugar composition in leaves of the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia. Physiologia Plantarum 87, 223-226.
8. Bianconi M.L., do Amaral A.T. & Schreier S. (1988) Use of membrane spin label spectra to monitor rates of reaction of partitioning compounds: hydrolysis of a local anesthetic analog. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 152, 344-350.
9. Buitink J., Hoekstra F.A. & Leprince O. (2002) Biochemistry and biophysics of tolerance systems. In Desiccation and Survival in Plants: Drying Without Dying (eds M. Black & H.W. Pritchard), pp. 293-318. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
10. Crowe J.H., Carpenter J.F. & Crowe L.M. (1998) The role of vitrification in anhydrobiosis. Annual Review of Physiology 60, 73-103.
11. Crowe J.H., Hoekstra F.A. & Crowe L.M. (1992) Anhydrobiosis. Annual Review of Physiology 54, 579-599.
12. Crowe J.H., Hoekstra F.A., Nguyen K.H.N. & Crowe L.M. (1996) Is vitrification involved in depression of the phase transition temperature in dry phospholipids? Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1280, 187-196.
13. Eaton S.S. & Eaton G.R. (1978) Interaction of spin labels with transition metals. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 26, 451-453.
14. Franks N.P. & Lieb W.R. (1982) Molecular mechanisms of general anaesthesia. Nature 300, 487-493.
15. Golovina E.A. & Hoekstra F.A. (2002) Membrane behavior as influenced by partitioning of amphiphiles during drying: a comparative study in anhydrobiotic plant systems. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 131A, 545-558.
16. Golovina E.A. & Tikhonov A.N. (1994) The structural differences between the embryos of viable and nonviable wheat seeds as studied with the EPR spectroscopy of lipid-soluble spin labels. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1190, 385-392.
17. Golovina E.A., Hoekstra F.A. & Hemminga M.A. (1998) Drying increases intracellular partitioning of amphiphilic substances into the lipid phase: impact on membrane permeability and significance for desiccation tolerance. Plant Physiology 118, 975-986.
18. Golovina E.A., Hoekstra F.A. & van Aelst A.C. (2000) Programmed cell death or desiccation tolerance: two possible routes for wheat endosperm cells. Seed Science Research 10, 365-379.
19. Golovina E.A., Hoekstra F.A. & van Aelst A.C. (2001) The competence to acquire cellular desiccation tolerance is not dependent on seed morphological development. Journal of Experimental Botany 52, 1015-1027.
20. Golovina E.A., Tikhonov A.N. & Hoekstra F.A. (1997) An electron paramagnetic resonance spin-probe study of membrane permeability changes with seed aging. Plant Physiology 114, 383-389.
21. Hincha D.K., Oliver A.E. & Crowe J.H. (1999) Lipid composition determines the effects of arbutin on the stability of membranes. Biophysical Journal 77, 2024-2034.
22. Hoekstra F.A. & Golovina E.A. (2000) Impact of amphiphile partitioning on desiccation tolerance. In Seed Biology: Advances and Applications (eds M. Black, K.J. Bradford & J. Vasques-Ramos), pp. 43-55. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
23. Hoekstra F.A. & Golovina E.A. (2002) The role of amphiphiles. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 131A, 527-533.
24. Hoekstra F.A., Golovina E.A. & Buitink J. (2001) Mechanisms of plant desiccation tolerance. Trends in Plant Science 6, 431-438.
25. Hoekstra F.A., Golovina E.A. & Nijsse J. (2003) What do we really know about desiccation tolerance mechanisms? In The Biology of Seeds, Recent Research Advances (eds G. Nicolas, K.J. Bradford, D. Come & H.W. Pritchard), pp. 259-270. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
26. Hoekstra F.A., Wolkers W.F., Buitink J., Golovina E.A., Crowe J.H. & Crowe L.M. (1997) Membrane stabilization in the dry state. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 117A, 335-341.
27. Ioku K., Terao J. & Nakatani N. (1992) Antioxidative activity of arbutin in a solution and liposomal suspension. Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry 56, 1658-1659.
28. Kaplan J., Canonico P.G. & Caspary W.J. (1973) Electron spin resonance studies of spin-labeled mammalian cells by detection of surface membrane signals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 70, 66-70.
29. Koag M.C., Fenton R.D., Wilkens S. & Close T.J. (2003) The binding of maize DHN1 to lipid vesicles. Gain of structure and lipid specificity. Plant Physiology 131, 309-316.
30. Lee C.W.B., Waugh J.S. & Griffin R.G. (1986) Solid-state NMR study of trehalose/1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-phosphatidylcholine interactions. Biochemistry 25, 3737-3742.
31. Lenaz G. & Castelli G.P. (1985) Membrane fluidity: molecular basis and physiological significance. In Structure and Properties of Cell Membranes, Vol. 3 (ed. G. Benga), pp. 93-135. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
32. Leprince O. & Hoekstra F.A. (1998) The responses of cytochrome redox state and energy metabolism to dehydration support a role for cytoplasmic viscosity in desiccation tolerance. Plant Physiology 118, 1253-1264.
33. Marsh D. (1981) Electron spin resonance: spin labels. In: Membrane Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol. 31 (ed. E. Grell), pp. 51-142. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
34. Oliver A.E., Crowe L.M., De Araujo P.S., Fisk E. & Crowe J.H. (1996) Arbutin inhibits PLA-2 in partially hydrated model systems. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1302, 69-78.
35. Oliver A.E., Hincha D.K., Crowe L.M. & Crowe J.H. (1998) Interactions of arbutin with dry and hydrated bilayers. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1370, 87-97.
36. Oliver A.E., Hincha D.K., Tsvetkova N.M., Vigh L. & Crowe J.H. (2001) The effect of arbutin on membrane integrity during drying is mediated by stabilization of the lamellar phase in the presence of nonbilayer-forming lipids. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 111, 37-57.
37. Popova A.V., Heyer A.G. & Hincha D.K. (2002) Differential destabilization of membranes by tryptophan and phenylalanine during freezing: the roles of lipid composition and membrane fusion. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1561, 109-118.
38. Sanson A., Ptak M., Rigaud J.L. & Gary-Bobo C.M. (1976) An ESR study of the anchoring of spin-labeled stearic acid in lecithin multilayers. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 17, 435-444.
39. Suau R., Cuevas A., Valpuesta V. & Reid M.S. (1991) Arbutin and sucrose in the leaves of the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia. Phytochemistry 30, 2555-2556.
40. Sun W.Q. & Leopold A.C. (1993) Acquisition of desiccation tolerance in soybeans. Physiologia Plantarum 87, 403-409.
41. Teixeira C.V., Itri R., Casallanovo F. & Schreier S. (2001) Local anesthetic-induced microscopic and mesoscopic effects in micelles. A fluorescence, spin label and SAXS study. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1510, 93-105.
42. Tieleman D.P., Marrink S.J. & Berendsen H.J.C. (1997) A computer perspective of membranes: molecular dynamics studies of lipid bilayer systems. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1331, 235-270.
43. Tsvetkova N.M., Horvath I., Torok Z., Wolkers W.F., Balogi Z., Shigapova N., Crowe L.M., Tablin F., Vierling E., Crowe J.H. & Vigh L. (2002) Small heat-shock proteins regulate membrane lipid polymorphism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 99, 13504-13509.
44. 31P NMR and FTIR studies. Biophysical Journal 75, 2947-2955.
45. Turchiello R.F., Juliano L., Ito A.S. & Lamy-Freund M.T. (2000) How bradykinin alters the lipid membrane structure: a spin label comparative study with bradykinin fragments and other cations. Biopolymers 54, 211-220.
46. Vereyken I.J., Chupin V., Demel R.A., Smeekens S.C.M. & de Kruijff B. (2001) Fructans insert between the headgroups of phospholipids. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1510, 307-320.
47. Vijn I. & Smeekens S. (1999) Fructan: more than a reserve carbohydrate? Plant Physiology 120, 351-359.