Glycerol Is an Osmoprotectant in Two Antarctic Chlamydomonas Species From an Ice-Covered Saline Lake and Is Synthesized by an Unusual Bidomain Enzyme

• Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science
• Main Authors: James A. Raymond, Rachael Morgan-Kiss, Sarah Stahl-Rommel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
• Subjects: Chlamydomonas; glycerol synthesis; phosphoserine phosphatase; glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase; Antarctica; Lake Bonney; Plant culture; SB1-1110; Antarctic; Bonney; Saline Lake; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.01259; https://doaj.org/article/78e4265cdf774a77916f6bba88077dab

Glycerol, a compatible solute, has previously been found to act as an osmoprotectant in some marine Chlamydomonas species and several species of Dunaliella from hypersaline ponds. Recently, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Dunaliella salina were shown to make glycerol with an unusual bidomain enzyme, w...