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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 111, Issue 1 301-312, Copyright © 1996 by American Society of Plant Biologists

WHOLE PLANT, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND STRESS PHYSIOLOGY

Effects of COR6.6 and COR15am Polypeptides Encoded by COR (Cold-Regulated) Genes of Arabidopsis thaliana on Dehydration-Induced Phase Transitions of Phospholipid Membranes

M. S. Webb, S. J. Gilmour, M. F. Thomashow and P. L. Steponkus
Department of Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (M.S.W., P.L.S.)

Cold acclimation of Arabidopsis thaliana includes the expression of cold-regulated (COR) genes and the accumulation of COR polypeptides. The hydration characteristics of two COR polypeptides, COR6.6 and COR15am, have been determined and their effects on the dehydration-induced liquid crystalline-to-gel and lamellar-to-hexagonal II phase transitions in phospholipid mixtures have been examined. After dehydration at osmotic pressures between 8 and 150 MPa, the water content of the COR polypeptides was less than that of bovine serum albumin, with COR15am the least hydrated: bovine serum albumin > COR6.6 > COR15am. Neither COR6.6 nor COR15am altered the dehydration-induced gel lamellar -> fluid lamellar phase transition temperature of either dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine or dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC). In multilamellar vesicles of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine:DOPC (1:1, mol:mol) prepared by either freeze-thaw or reverse-phase evaporation methods, neither COR6.6, COR15am, nor bovine serum albumin altered the incidence of the dehydration-induced formation of the inverted hexagonal phase as a function of osmotic pressure. However, a specific ultrastructural alteration[mdash] the formation of a striated surface morphology in the lamellar domains[mdash]was observed in mixtures of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine:DOPC that were dehydrated in the presence of COR15am. Nevertheless, neither COR6.6 nor COR15am appears to participate in a specific protein-phospholipid interaction that alters the dehydration-induced phase behavior of phospholipid vesicles.


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