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The influence of dissolved oxygen on the synthesis and activity of Δ12-desaturase in was investigated. A decline in oxygen concentration during batch growth at 30° was correlated with a decline in the degree of cellular fatty acid unsaturation. Chilling of early-stationary-phase cultures to 15° led to increased dissolved oxygen levels (from < 1 μM to 305 μM) and increased fatty acid unsaturation, which has been shown previously [Avery, S. V., Harwood, J. L. & Lloyd, D. (1994) 140, 2423–2431] to be due mainly to δ12-desaturase induction. In contrast, chilling of mid-exponential-phase cultures, where the dissolved oxygen concentration prior to chilling was high (> 160 μM), gave no change in cellular fatty acid unsaturation. Measurement of [1-C]acetate incorporation by oxygen-limited revealed that labelling of the Δ12-desaturase product, linoleate (18:2), increased with oxygen concentration. Microsomal levels of the Δ12-desaturase enzyme were found to increase by up to 10-fold during aeration of cultures; a transient elevation in oxygen was sufficient to induce Δ12-desaturase synthesis that was still fully detectable 1 h later. In addition, the activity of pre-existing Δ12-desaturase, measured in isolated microsomal membranes, increased by up to fivefold with increases in the oxygen concentration of assay mixtures. These results demonstrate for the first time that (i) oxygen availability alone can regulate Δ12-desaturase synthesis in and that (ii) oxygen can limit the activity of pre-existing Δ12-desaturase. These responses can occur independently of temperature changes.

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