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Variation in the content of free amino acids in body fluids of freshwater mollusk Lymnaea stagnalis during seasonal adaptation to low positive temperatures

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The effect of autumn and winter decrease in environmental temperature on the content of free amino acids in body fluids has been studied in freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis. In autumn, when temperature drops to 4 and 0°C, the highest increase in alanine concentration was observed and its pool was almost three times that in summer. A less pronounced accumulation of glutamate, glycine, histidine, and serine was observed in the same temperature range. Cysteine was detected at 0°C. The accumulation of essential amino acids methionine, leucine, isoleucine, tyrosine, and phenylalanine took place at 0°C, while only traces of these amino acids were detectable at 4°C. At the same time, free lysine undetectable in summer has been revealed in autumn at 4°C and its concentration increased as temperature decreased to 0°C. In winter, when the mollusks were hypermetabolic for 2.5 months, the pools of all amino acids decreased 4–8 times, while essential amino acids (except lysine) were undetectable. The involvement of alanine and, possibly, lysine in L. stagnalis adaptation to near-zero temperature is proposed.

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Karanova, 2006, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2006, No. 6, pp. 719–724.

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Karanova, M.V. Variation in the content of free amino acids in body fluids of freshwater mollusk Lymnaea stagnalis during seasonal adaptation to low positive temperatures. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 33, 587–591 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359006060094

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