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Redox state and phosphorylation potential as macroparameters in rhythmic control of metabolism — a molecular basis for seasonal adaptation of development

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The Redox State and Circadian Rhythms

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The network of cellular energy metabolism is regarded as an evolutionary adaptation to a cyclical energy supply from the solar cycle of light and dark. As a working hypothesis we propose that the oscillatory feedback system of cellular energy metabolism could be the basis for the endogenous timing of development and behaviour. The interaction of environmental signals with an endogenous physiological rhythm with the qualities of a clock are assumed to occur at membrane-organized receptors coupled to signal transduction chains which modulate membrane-bound energy transduction. The energy-dependent state of membranes in turn is considered to determine the sensitivity of membrane-bound receptors. The structural and functional principles for the physiological oscillators are supposed to be the same as those underlying the theory of membrane-bound energy transduction. The metabolic network is controlled by redox and phosphorylation potential (or charge) and the modulation of the hydrophobicity of key elements. The circadian system, the clock’s periodicity, is genetically determined and provides the temporal frame for physiological and behavioural patterns that are necessary for adaptation of organisms and populations to environmental constraints. In the photoperiodic acclimation of organisms, photoredox systems most likely function in signal transduction as modulators of vectorial metabolism in general and in feedback control of oscillating transcription rates in cellular and organismic adaptation in particular. From an evolutionary point of view the circadian rhythmic cell is a hydro-electro-chemical oscillator driven or synchronized by sunlight with a temporal compartmentation of metabolism and a network of metabolic sequences to compensate for oxidative stress. The plasma membrane is the interface between apoplast (extracellular matrix) and symplast (protoplast) and as such the structure for integration of environmental and endogenous signals in cellular or organismic adaptation.

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  1. Department of Biology II, University of Freiburg, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany

    E. Wagner, J. T. P. Abrechtová & J. Normann

  2. Department of Plant Physiology, University of Geneva, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

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Wagner, E., Abrechtová, J.T.P., Normann, J., Greppin, H. (2000). Redox state and phosphorylation potential as macroparameters in rhythmic control of metabolism — a molecular basis for seasonal adaptation of development. In: Driessche, T.V., Guisset, JL., Petiau-de Vries, G.M. (eds) The Redox State and Circadian Rhythms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9556-8_14

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