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Change of supercooling capability in solutions containing different kinds of ice nucleators by flavonol glycosides from deep supercooling xylem parenchyma cells in trees
| Title: | Change of supercooling capability in solutions containing different kinds of ice nucleators by flavonol glycosides from deep supercooling xylem parenchyma cells in trees |
| Authors: | Kuwabara, Chikako Browse this author | | Kasuga, Jun Browse this author | | Wang, Donghui Browse this author | | Fukushi, Yukiharu Browse this author | | Arakawa, Keita Browse this author | | Koyama, Toshie Browse this author | | Inada, Takaaki Browse this author | | Fujikawa, Seizo Browse this author |
| Keywords: | Supercooling of water | | Xylem parenchyma cells (XPCs) | | Homogenous and/or heterogeneous ice nucleation | | Flavonol glycosides |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2011 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Journal Title: | Cryobiology |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page: | 157 |
| End Page: | 163 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2011.06.001 |
| PMID: | 21906586 |
| Abstract: | Deep supercooling xylem parenchyma cells (XPCs) in Katsura tree contain flavonol glycosides with high supercooling-facilitating capability in solutions containing the ice nucleation bacterium (INB) Erwinia ananas, which is thought to have an important role in deep supercooling of XPCs. The present study, in order to further clarify the roles of these flavonol glycosides in deep supercooling of XPCs, the effects of these supercooling-facilitating (anti-ice nucleating) flavonol glycosides, kaempferol 3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (K3Glc), kaempferol 7-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (K7Glc) and Quercetin 3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (Q3Glc), in buffered Milli-Q water (BMQW) containing different kinds of ice nucleators, including INB Xanthomonas campestris, silver iodide and phloroglucinol, were examined by a droplet freezing assay. The results showed that all of the flavonol glycosides promoted supercooling in all solutions containing different kinds of ice nucleators, although the magnitudes of supercooling capability of each flavonol glycoside changed in solutions containing different kinds of ice nucleators. On the other hand, these flavonol glycosides exhibited complicated nucleating reactions in BMQW, which did not contain identified ice nucleators but contained only unidentified airborne impurities. Q3Glc exhibited both supercooling-facilitating and ice nucleating capabilities depending on the concentrations in such water. Both K3Glc and K7Glc exhibited only ice nucleation capability in such water. It was also shown by an emulsion freezing assay in BMQW that K3Glc and Q3Glc had no effect on homogeneous ice nucleation temperature, whereas K7Glc increased ice nucleation temperature. The results indicated that each flavonol glycoside affected ice nucleation by very complicated and varied reactions. More studies are necessary to determine the exact roles of these flavonol glycosides in deep supercooling of XPCs in which unidentified heterogeneous ice nucleators may exist. |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48042 |
| Appears in Collections: | 農学院・農学研究院 (Graduate School of Agriculture / Faculty of Agriculture) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 宇梶 慎子
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