NDLI: Factors contributing to inactivation of isolated thylakoid membranes during freezing in the presence of variable amounts of glucose and NaCl.

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Author	Santarius, K. A. Giersch, C.
Abstract	During freezing of isolated spinach thylakoids in sugar/salt solutions, the two solutes affected membrane survival in opposite ways: membrane damage due to increased electrolyte concentration can be prevented by sugar. Calculation of the final concentrations of NaCl or glucose reached in the residual unfrozen portion of the system revealed that the effects of the solutes on membrane activity can be explained in part by colligative action. In addition, the fraction of the residual liquid in the frozen system contributes to membrane injury. During severe freezing in the presence of very low initial solute concentrations, membrane damage drastically increased with a decrease in the volume of the unfrozen solution. Freezing injury under these conditions is likely to be due to mechanical damage by the ice crystals that occupy a very high fraction of the frozen system. At higher starting concentrations of sugar plus salt, membrane damage increased with an increase in the amount of the residual unfrozen liquid. Thylakoid inactivation at these higher initial solute concentrations can be largely attributed to dilution of the membrane fraction, as freezing damage at a given sugar/salt ratio decreased with increasing the thylakoid concentration in the sample. Moreover, membrane survival in the absence of freezing decreased with lowering the temperature, indicating that the temperature affected membrane damage not only via alterations related to the ice formation. From the data it was evident that damage of thylakoid membranes was determined by various individual factors, such as the amount of ice formed, the final concentrations of solutes and membranes in the residual unfrozen solution, the final volume of this fraction, the temperature and the freezing time. The relative contribution of these factors depended on the experimental conditions, mainly the sugar/salt ratio, the initial solute concentrations, and the freezing temperature.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3495(84)84006-0
Ending Page	139
Page Count	11
Starting Page	129
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00063495
e-ISSN	15420086
Journal	Biophysical Journal
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	46
Language	English
Publisher Date	1984-08-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Biophysics Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biophysics

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