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Circadian Rhythms, Membranes and Susceptibility to Environmental Factors

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Membranes and Circadian Rythms

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Circadian rhythm in energy metabolism and circadian rhythmicity of plasmamembrane-linked functions are possibly closely coupled. Rhythmic stimulation of plasmamembrane-bound receptors could feed-back on cellular energy metabolism (phase shifting) which in turn could rephase sensitivity changes of plasmamembrane-bound receptors and metabolic function (e.g. transporters and channels).

Indications for membrane-associated rhythmic functions are deduced from rhythmic photochrome pelletability in Cucurbita, the rhythmic binding of alkaline peroxidase to plasmamembrane microsomes from Pharbitis and the amplitude modulation of this rhythm by photochrome photoreversibility, only at a particular phase of the rhythm.

These results clearly indicate an endogenous rhythmic control of the phase for potential amplitude modulation by the photoreceptor phytochrome in Pharbitis, a phenomenon earlier observed in Chenopodium for enzymes involved in energy metabolism.

The short-day plant Chenopodium rubrum is characterized by rhythmic functions in the different organs (leaves, shoot, root, apical meristem). Organization of activity in the whole plant seems to depend on the communication between the different organs and tissues via frequency-coded (electrical) signals.

A 20 h rhythm in cell division at the apex might impose rhythmic limits on the effectiveness of a floral stimulus originating in a 30 h rhythmic pattern from the leaves. A two frequency oscillation in the pattern of a circadian, rhythm in stem-extension-rate (SER) is considered to result from the interaction between rhythmic functions which originate in the leaf and in the stem or apex.

Changing the phase or frequency of the leaf-based oscillation by the critical photoperiod via photochrome could result in a modified interaction between leaf- and shoot -based rhythmic (electrical) activity and might thus lead to a change in the rates and planes of cell division at the apex to allow flower initiation.

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Wagner, E. et al. (1996). Circadian Rhythms, Membranes and Susceptibility to Environmental Factors. In: Vanden Driessche, T., Guisset, JL., Petiau-de Vries, G.M. (eds) Membranes and Circadian Rythms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79903-7_10

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