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First published online November 4, 2005
Journal of Experimental Biology 208, 4283-4290 (2005)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2005
doi: 10.1242/jeb.01899

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Thermally induced changes in lipid composition of raft and non-raft regions of hepatocyte plasma membranes of rainbow trout

John K. Zehmer^* and Jeffrey R. Hazel

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: john.zehmer{at}utsouthwestern.edu)

Accepted 26 September 2005

In poikilotherms, increases in plasma membrane (PM) cholesterol and an increase in the degree of lipid acyl chain saturation commonly accompany an increase in growth temperature. This has typically been interpreted in terms of membrane fluidity/order homeostasis, but these changes would also be expected to stabilize the structure of PM rafts against thermal perturbation. Rafts are microdomains that organize the molecules of many signaling cascades and are formed as a result of interactions between lipids with saturated acyl chains and cholesterol. No study to date has examined the thermally induced compositional changes of raft and non-raft regions of the PM separately. In this study we have measured the phospholipid class composition and fatty acid composition of raft-enriched (raft) and raft-depleted PM (RDPM) of hepatocytes from trout Oncorhynchus mykiss acclimated to 5°C and 20°C. In the raft, warm acclimation was associated with a reduction in the proportion of phosphatidylcholine from 56% to 30% while phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylinositol each increased from 8% to approximately 20% of the total phospholipid. Additionally, there were significantly fewer unsaturated fatty acids in the raft lipids from warm-acclimated (61%) than from the cold-acclimated trout (68%). In contrast, there were no significant changes in phospholipid class or acyl chain unsaturation in the RDPM. These data suggest that changes in raft lipid composition, rather than the PM as a whole, are particularly important during thermal acclimation.

Key words: raft, trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, lipid composition, cholesterol, fatty acid, poikilothermy

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