Membrane Fluidity: Biophysical Techniques and Cellular Regulation

✍ Scribed by A. Kuksis, J. J. Myher (auth.), Morris Kates, Arnis Kuksis (eds.)

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Series: Experimental Biology and Medicine 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book represents the proceedings of a Satellite Symposium of the XIth International Congress of Biochemistry on "Control of Membrane Fluidity" which was held on July 7, 1979 at the Charles H. Best Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. The meeting was organized by M. Kates and A. Kuksis and was supported by the International Congress of Biochemistry. The purpose of the meeting was to review recent progress in many different areas of investigation bearing on the role of lipids in the structural and functional property of the cell membrane commonly referred to as fluidity. The aim was to emphasize the factors controlling membrane fluidity as studied in appropriate in vitro and in vivo experiments. The Symposium included invited review papers and short papers offered by discussants. In assem· bling the book no distinction has been made between the two types of presentations, nor has any significance been attached to the chronological order of their presentation in the Symposium. As a result it was possible to provide a much more coherent and continuous presentation than that available at the meeting.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
New Approaches to Lipid Analyses of Lipoproteins and Cell Membranes....Pages 3-32
Determination of Molecular Species of Glycerophospholipids by a GC-MS Selected Ion Monitoring Technique....Pages 33-41
High-Precision TLC-Densitometry of Membrane Lipids....Pages 43-55
The Pulmonary Surfactant: Control of Fluidity at the Air-Liquid Interface....Pages 57-67
Fluidity of Membrane Lipids....Pages 69-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Adaptive Regulation of Membrane Lipid Biosynthesis in Bacilli by Environmental Temperature....Pages 77-98
Activity of Membrane-Bound Enzymes of the Respiratory Chain During Adaptation of Fish to Temperature Changes....Pages 99-104
Effect of Membrane Lipid Composition on Mobility of Lymphocyte Surface Immunoglobulins....Pages 105-117
Plasma Membrane Mg 2+ ATPase Activity is Inversely Related to Lipid Fluidity....Pages 119-129
Alkaline Phosphatase in Red Cell Membrane: Interconnection of Activities and Membrane Lipid Fluidity....Pages 131-139
Membrane Permeability in Porcine Malignant Hyperthermia....Pages 141-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Role of Phospholipid Desaturases in Control of Membrane Fluidity....Pages 153-170
Membrane Fluidity and the Activity of Bovine Brain Phospholipid Exchange Protein....Pages 171-179
The regulation of bacterial membrane fluidity by modification of phospholipid fatty acyl chain length....Pages 181-190
The Question of Membrane Fluidity in an Anaerobic General Fatty Acid Auxotroph....Pages 191-201
Thermal Control of Fatty Acid Synthetase from Brevibacterium ammoniagenes ....Pages 203-211
Why do Prokaryotes Regulate Membrane Fluidity?....Pages 213-222
Docosahexaenoyl Chains are Introduced in Phosphatidic Acid During De Novo Synthesis in Retinal Microsomes....Pages 223-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Dynamics of Membrane Fatty Acids During Lymphocyte Stimulation by Mitogens....Pages 239-263
Phosphatidylinositol as a Source of Diacylglycerol to Promote Membrane Fusion in Exocytosis....Pages 265-272
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Glycosphingolipid Domain Formation and Lymphoid Cell Activation....Pages 273-282
Phospholipid Metabolism of Rat Gastric Mucosa....Pages 283-296
Effect of Temperature on the Biosynthesis of 3-SN-Phosphatidylcholine by Fusarium Oxysporum F. SP. Lycopersici....Pages 297-305
In Vivo Modification of Phospholipid Polar Head Groups and Alterations in Membrane Activities and Cellular Events....Pages 307-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Homeostatic Control of Membrane Lipid Fluidity in Fusarium ....Pages 327-348
Homeoviscous Adaptation in Psychrophilic, Meosphilic and Thermophilic Yeasts....Pages 349-363
Regulation of Membrane Fluidity in Anaerobic Bacteria....Pages 365-380
Regulation of Membrane Fluidity During Temperature Acclimation by Tetrahymena Pyriformis ....Pages 381-397
Modification of Lipid Composition and Membrane Fluidity in Tetrahymena ....Pages 399-418
Regulation of Phospholipid N-Methylation in the Hepatocyte....Pages 419-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-445

✦ Subjects

Biochemistry, general