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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2021

Sphingolipid Δ4-desaturation is an important metabolic step for glycosylceramide formation in Physcomitrium patens.

Jasmin Gömann, Cornelia Herrfurth, Krzysztof Zienkiewicz, Tegan M Haslam, Ivo Feussner

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Genome analysis of the glycosphingolipid-producing green alga tetraselmis sp. NKG400013.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2026
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  3. Diversity in sphingolipid metabolism across land plants.Journal of experimental botany · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jasmin GömannDepartment of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Cornelia HerrfurthDepartment of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8255-3255
Krzysztof ZienkiewiczDepartment of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Tegan M HaslamDepartment of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4849-7330
Ivo FeussnerDepartment of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9888-7003
University of Göttingen · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycosylceramides are abundant membrane components in vascular plants and are associated with cell differentiation, organogenesis, and protein secretion. Long-chain base (LCB) Δ4-desaturation is an important structural feature for metabolic channeling of sphingolipids into glycosylceramide formation in plants and fungi. In Arabidopsis thaliana, LCB Δ4-unsaturated glycosylceramides are restricted to pollen and floral tissue, indicating that LCB Δ4-desaturation has a less important overall physiological role in A. thaliana. In the bryophyte Physcomitrium patens, LCB Δ4-desaturation is a feature of the most abundant glycosylceramides of the gametophyte generation. Metabolic changes in the P. patens null mutants for the sphingolipid Δ4-desaturase (PpSD4D) and the glycosylceramide synthase (PpGCS), sd4d-1 and gcs-1, were determined by ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with nanoelectrospray ionization and triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry analysis. sd4d-1 plants lacked unsaturated LCBs and the most abundant glycosylceramides. gcs-1 plants lacked all glycosylceramides and accumulated hydroxyceramides. While sd4d-1 plants mostly resembled wild-type plants, gcs-1 mutants were impaired in growth and development. These results indicate that LCB Δ4-desaturation is a prerequisite for the formation of the most abundant glycosylceramides in P. patens. However, loss of unsaturated LCBs does not affect plant viability, while blockage of glycosylceramide synthesis in gcs-1 plants causes severe plant growth and development defects.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsBryopsidaPollenSphingolipidsArabidopsis ProteinsSphingolipidsGlycosylceramideglycosylceramide synthaselong-chain base desaturationnon-vascular plantsPhyscomitrium patensplant developmentsphingolipid metabolismsphingolipid Δ4-desaturase

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PMID34111292
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