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Enzymes of the CDP-diglyceride pathway of phospholipid synthesis, CDP-diacylglycerol synthetase, CDP-diacylglycerol: glycerol 3-phosphate phosphatidyl-transferase and enzymes of phosphatidylserine formation were initially of relatively high specific activities in aleurone cells of wheat and declined upon imbibition. Enzyme activity of phosphatidylinositol synthesis was not detected in dry grains but was present upon imbibition. CDP-diacylglycerol: glycerol 3-phosphate phosphatidyltransferase shifted during imbibition from 85% of the activity in the supernatant of aleurone layers from dry seeds to 98% associated with large particle fractions after 36 hours of imbibition. Phosphatidylserine formation shifted from a dominant location in the 1,500 x g fraction in the dry seed to a predominantly “mitochondrial” location after 36 hours of imbibition. The subcellular distribution of CDP-diacylglycerol synthetase did not change appreciably upon imbibition from that of the dry seed, 75 to 80% of the activity was found in the supernatant. Only CDP-diacylglycerol: glycerol 3-phosphate phosphatidyltransferase showed increased specific activity late in the imbibition period. GA3 accelerated the decrease of already declining activities of the CDP-diglyceride enzymes and the changes in their patterns of distribution, augmented the activities of the phosphatidylinositol synthesizing enzyme, and both accelerated and augmented the increase in the activity of the enzyme of phosphatidylglycerol synthesis which occurred late in imbibition.
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Jelsema, C.L., Morré, D.J. & Ruddat, M. Phospholipid metabolism of wheat grains: Enzymes of the CDP-diglyceride phospholipid biosynthetic pathway. Protoplasma 113, 120–126 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01282000
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