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. 1973 May;51(5):883–888. doi: 10.1104/pp.51.5.883

Mechanism of Chilling Injury in Sweet Potato

X. Change in Lipid-Protein Interaction in Mitochondria from Cold-stored Tissue 1

Shohei Yamaki a, Ikuzo Uritani a
PMCID: PMC366369  PMID: 16658433

Abstract

Seventy per cent of the phospholipid in mitochondria from sweet potato roots was removed by aqueous acetone treatment. The amount of phospholipid that could be rebound to these lipid-depleted mitochondria roughly corresponded to the amount of phospholipid in untreated mitochondria. The activities of NADH-cytochrome c oxidoreductase, succinate-cytochrome c oxidoreductase, cytochrome oxidase, and succinoxidase in lipid-depleted mitochondria were restored by addition of mitochondrial phospholipid to about 60, 50, 15, and 35%, respectively, in comparison to untreated mitochondria. The capacity of lipid-depleted mitochondria from 14-day cold-stored tissue to bind mitochondrial phospholipid from healthy tissue was lower than that from healthy tissue. However, there was no large difference in activities of NADH-cytochrome c oxidoreductase and succinate-cytochrome c oxidoreductase between both phospholipid rebound lipid-depleted mitochondria from healthy and 14-day cold-stored tissues. On the other hand, activity of succinoxidase in phospholipid rebound lipid-depleted mitochondria from 14-day cold-stored tissue was decreased by about 50% of that from healthy tissue. Furthermore, the capacity of lipid-depleted mitochondria from 2-day cold-stored tissue to bind mitochondrial phospholipid from healthy tissue was higher than that from healthy tissue.

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