Corbicula sandai

A novel ceramide octasaccharide (31) from the fresh-water bivalve, Corbicula sandai, which contained D-mannose-6-phosphate residues, is the first report of an internal L-fucose residue in a glycolipid. ... 

The bivalves Hyriopsis schlegelii and Corbicula sandai contain manno-lipids derived from glucosylceramide, in which xylosyl groups occur as a branch, fucosyl residues can be internal in the saccharide chain and, in one case, 4- Omethylglucuronic acid is found (Hori etal, 1977a, b, 1977 Itasaka and Hori, 1979). A tentative set of biosynthetic relationships is put forward in Figure 4.20. 

Neutral glycosphingolipids containing D-mannose have been extracted from whole tissues of the fresh-water bivalve Corbicula sandai. Chemical, enzymic, and physical methods were used to characterize two novel glycolipids, viz. jS-D-mannopyranosyl-(l -s- 4)-D-glucopyranosylceramide and a-D-mannopyranosyl-(1 -> 4)-j8-D-mannopyranosyl-(l 4)-D-glucopyranosylceramide, The compositions of the sialosphingolipids of sea-urchin eggs and spermatozoa have been... 

Corbicula sandai, and Corbicula sp. (Chinese freshwater Corbicula dam)./. Agric. Food Chem., 53, 8357-8364. 

Maoka, T, Fujiwara, Y, Hashimoto, K., and Akimoto, N. (2005c) Carotenoids in three species of Corbicula clams, Corbicula japonica, Corbicula sandai, and Corbicula sp. (Chinese freshwater Corbicula dam)./. Agric. Food Chem., 53,8357-8364. 

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