Abstract
Spin-labeling studies were conducted to elucidate the viscosity and phase transition temperatures of lipids isolated from psychrophilic, psychrotrophic, and mesophilic clostridia. Electron spin resonance spectroscopy indicated that the lipids, for all the growth temperatures tested, were in a fluid state and from 13 to 24 C higher than the corresponding lipid transition temperatures. When the organisms were grown at different temperatures, a psychrotropic and two mesophilic clostridia were shown to be able to adjust their lipid-phase transition temperature to the growth temperature. A psychrophilic Clostridium strain, when grown at different temperatures, synthesized lipids that had the same phase transition temperature. It is suggested that this lack of growth temperature-inducible regulation of lipid-phase transition temperature may be a molecular determinant for the psychrophily of this organism. It is proposed that the growth temperature range of an organism is dependent upon the ability of the organism to regulate its lipid fluidity within a specific range.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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