Lipid bilayer properties potentially contributed to the evolutionary disappearance of betaine lipids in seed plants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many organisms rely on mineral nutrients taken directly from the soil or aquatic environment, and therefore, developed mechanisms to cope with the limitation of a given essential nutrient. For example, photosynthetic cells have well-defined responses to phosphate limitation, including the replacement of cellular membrane phospholipids with non-phosphorous lipids. Under phosphate starvation, phospholipids in extraplastidial membranes are replaced by betaine lipids in microalgae. In higher plants, the synthesis of betaine lipid is lost, driving plants to other strategies to cope with phosphate starvation where they replace their phospholipids by glycolipids.

Results

The aim of this work was to evaluate to what extent betaine lipids and PC lipids share physicochemica

SUBMITTER: Bolik S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10685587 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature