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Phosphoethanolamine in brain of the euritherm lake fish Perccottus glehni (Eleotridae, Perciformes, Dyb. 1877) as a phenomenon depending on temperature factor

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The present work studied effect of a seasonal decrease of environmental temperature and cold shock on pools of free amino acids (FA) in brain of the euritherm lake fish P. glehni. For the first time, non-protein amino acid, phosphoethanolamine (PEA), revealed in the great amounts under conditions of near-zero temperatures was found in brain of ectothermic animals. An intensive rise of the PEA pool from 0.3% during the summer period to 33.6% at winter was shown to occur in the brain of P. glehni as a result of a seasonal temperature decrease. In contrast, the level of taurine showing the greatest pool in comparison with other FA (29.0% of the total pool) in summer decreases to 8.9% in the beginning of winter period. Similar negative correlation between the taurine and PEA content was found under effect of acute cold shock (1°C): the taurine level decreased for 4 days from 32.2 to 14.5% of the total pool, whereas the PEA level sharply increased (from 2.1 to 15.3%). Both types of the low-temperature actions have revealed, besides PEA, an intensive rise in the pool of serine and accumulation of phosphoserine. The role of PEA in biochemical evolution and adaptation of the brain to low temperatures is discussed. It is supposed that accumulation of PEA, phosphoserine, and serine is associated with changes in the status of membrane phospholipids at low temperatures.

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Karanova, 2013, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 195–202.

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Karanova, M.V. Phosphoethanolamine in brain of the euritherm lake fish Perccottus glehni (Eleotridae, Perciformes, Dyb. 1877) as a phenomenon depending on temperature factor. J Evol Biochem Phys 49, 291–299 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093013030031

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