Journal article
Changes in lipid fluidity and fatty acid composition with altered culture temperature in Tetrahymen a pyriformis-NT1
Abstract
Cultures of T. pyriformis-NT1 were grown at 20 degrees C (Tg 20 degrees C) and 38 degrees C (Tg 38 degrees C). G.L.C. analysis and D.P.H. fluorescence polarization measurements in extracted phospholipids indicated that there was increased saturation of fatty acids and relatively reduced fluidity as growth temperature was increased. Breakpoints occurred in the Arrhenius plots of fluorescence polarization at 16 degrees C for Tg 38 degrees C total …
Authors
Connolly JG; Brown ID; Lee AG; Kerkut GA
Journal
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 287–292
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 1985
DOI
10.1016/0300-9629(85)90137-9
ISSN
1095-6433