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Phospholipid and Fatty Acid Composition of Phosphatidylcholine and Phosphatidylethanolamine in the Black Plaice Pleuronectes obscura during Thermoadaptation

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The phospholipid (PL) and fatty acid (FA) composition of major membrane lipid constituents, phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), as well as the cholesterol/phospholipid (CL/PL) ratio were assayed in the muscles, gills and liver of the black plaice Pleuronectes (Liopsetta) obscura at different ambient temperatures (18, 9 and 0°C). PL and CL were shown to be actively involved in adaptation of the fish to changes in the seawater temperature. As temperature declines, the monounsaturated FA (MUFA) level increases while the polyunsaturated FA (PUFA) fraction in gills and liver PC and PE, on the contrary, decreases, resulting in diminished functional activity of the fish. However, in muscles this correlation is lacking. The PC and PE composition was shown to be organ- and ambient temperature-dependent. Major PC forms are saturated FA (SFA)/PUFA and MUFA/PUFA composed of a relatively small number of major molecular species. A temperature drop results in an increased SFA/PUFA level and decreased MUFA/PUFA and PUFA/PUFA levels in muscles and gills, and this may promote a drop in the viscosity of the outer lipid monolayer of membranes and in their functional activity. In contrast to PC, the PE composition in all organs tested is characterized by a decrease in the SFA/ PUFA level and an increase in MUFA/PUFA and PUFA/PUFA levels. Such changes promote the retention of functional activity of the inner lipid monolayer of membranes and are not synchronized with rearrangements in their outer monolayer. Due to intermolecular transfer of acyl radicals at a constancy of their composition, functional rearrangement of the lipid matrix appears to be achieved through changes in the membrane viscosity. Our data support the idea that different adaptation strategies in fish are driven by certain sets of PL molecular species.

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Original Russian Text © E.Ya. Kostetsky, P.A. Velanskii, N. M. Sanina, 2018, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2018, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 96–104.

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Kostetsky, E.Y., Velanskii, P.A. & Sanina, N.M. Phospholipid and Fatty Acid Composition of Phosphatidylcholine and Phosphatidylethanolamine in the Black Plaice Pleuronectes obscura during Thermoadaptation. J Evol Biochem Phys 54, 109–118 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093018020035

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