Cerebrosides fatty acids

Biosynthesis of odd- and even-numbered cerebroside fatty acids Evidence for two... 

Isotopic studies of the biosynthesis of the cerebroside fatty acids in rats. J. Lipid Res. 

Table 4. Spleen cerebroside fatty acids in Gaucher s disease...

Very generally distributed like cerebrosides. Fatty acid and base composition similar... 

Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Components of Membrane Lipids A common structural feature of membrane lipids is their amphipathic nature. For example, in phosphatidylcholine, the two fatty acid chains are hydrophobic and the phosphocholine head group is hydrophilic. For each of the following membrane lipids, name the components that serve as the hydrophobic and hydrophilic units (a) phos-phatidylethanolamine (b) sphingomyelin (c) galactosyl-cerebroside (d) ganglioside (e) cholesterol. 

Kayser, S. G. and Patton, S. 1970. The function of very long chain fatty acids in membrane structure Evidence from milk cerebrosides. Biochem. Biophy. Res. Commun. 41, 1572-1578. 

From the sponge M. incrustans, two cerebrosides and a polar glycolipid were isolated.78 Both cerebrosides contain galactose and sphingosine, but differ in the nature of their fatty acids the less polar cerebroside contains normal, and the more polar, monohydroxy, acids. The structure of the polar glycolipid was not established, but it was shown to contain sphingosine, fatty acids, galactose, arabinose, fucose, and phosphorus.78... 

From the sea anemone M. senile was isolated j3-glucopyranosyl-( 1 - l)-ceramide, the structure of which was determined by mass spectrometry, H-n.m.r. spectroscopy, and chemical splitting. The major sphingosine in the cerebroside is a new base containing two double bonds and branching at one double bond, namely, 2-amino-D-eryf/jro-l,3-dihydroxy-9-methyl-( , E)-octadeca-4,8-diene. The major fatty acids are Ci6 0 and C20 o a-hydroxy acids.133... 

The hepatopancreas of H. schlegelii was found to contain an unusual cerebroside, a mannosylceramide, isolated from the monohexosylceramide fraction by t.l.c. on borate-impregnated silica gel.265 Its structure was shown to be /3-D-mannosylceramide, whose major sphingosine base is 4-sphingenine, and the fatty acids constitute a mixture of normal (77% of the total acids) and a-hydroxy acids, with hexadecanoic acid preponderant (43.7% of the total acids).265... 

Considerable proportions of cerebroside have been detected in the starfish Asterias rubens.9Ail0 It is a glucosylceramide having a-hydroxy fatty acids (from C16 to C26) and dihydroxy bases whose major components are Cl8 and C22 bases, with one, or two, double bonds. 

We initially demonstrated that brain cerebrosides, galactosyl-ceramides containing hydroxy fatty acids (HFA) and nonhydroxy fatty acids (NFA), could be completely derivatized by reaction with 10% benzoyl chloride at 60°C for 1 hour (2). After removal of excess reagents by partition between hexane and alkaline aqueous methanol, the perbenzoyl derivatives were seen to separate into two completely resolved components (HFA and NFA... 

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