Linoleic acid, oxidation products

Our study relied on regression analysis to examine the relative effects of two related dietary factors (TG and oxidized TG). Obviously, it would be better if we could have compared the effects of fresh and aged walnut oil on factor Vila. Furthermore, we need to identify the active component. However, it is of interest that plasma linoleic acid had been identified as the factor that activated factor VII in Swedish men (52). In that study, oxidation products of linoleic acid were not measured. Could it be that linoleic acid reflected the absorption of linoleic acid oxidation products in the Swedish study Perhaps the oxidized linoleic acid and not the cfr.cw-linoleic acid itself was the activator of factor VII. 

In relation to cancer, there is some evidence that highly oxidized and heated fats may have carcinogenic characteristics. HNE (4-hydroxy-2-frans-nonenal), a secondary lipid peroxidation product derived from linoleic acid oxidation, has assumed particular interest because it has shown cytotoxic and mutagenic properties. Its toxicity, as well other secondary lipid peroxidation products (HHE 4-hydroxy-2-frans-hexenal and HOE 4-h yd roxy-2-trans-oc ten al), is explained through the high reactivity with proteins, nucleic acids, DNA, and RNA. Research links them to different diseases such as atherosclerosis, Alzheimer s, and liver diseases (Seppanen and Csallany, 2006). Research is rapidly progressing, but results are still not conclusive. 

Reactive aldehydes derived from lipid peroxidation, which are able to bind to several amino acid residues, are also capable of generating novel amino acid oxidation products. By means of specific polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies, the occurrence of malonaldehyde (MDA) and 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) bound to cellular protein has been shown. Lysine modification by lipid peroxidation products (linoleic hydroperoxide) can yield neo-antigenic determinants such as N-c-hexanoyl lysine. Both histidine and lysine are nucleophilic amino acids and therefore vulnerable to modification by lipid peroxidation-derived electrophiles, such as 2-alkenals, 4-hydroxy-2-alkenals, and ketoaldehydes, derived from lipid peroxidation. Histidine shows specific reactivity toward 2-alkenals and 4-hydroxy-2-alkenals, whereas lysine is an ubiquitous target of aldehydes, generating various types of adducts. Covalent binding of reactive aldehydes to histidine and lysine is associated with the appearance of carbonyl reactivity and antigenicity of proteins [125]. 

Cytosolic EH (MW 62 kDa) processes oxidation products of arachidonic acid and arachidonic acid metabolites, key autocoids in inflammatory and other processes, and also activates the linoleic acid oxide, leukotoxin, which is produced by leukocytes, to cytotoxic diols that appear to be the mediators of multiorgan failure and respiratory distress syndrome in some patients. With regard to xenobiotics, soluble EH also metabolizes trans-epoxide metabolites of xenobiotics. 

FIGURE 14.3 Inhibition of linoleic acid oxidation by ishiru products. SQ-1 to SQ-5, commercial products of ishiru-squid SA-1 to SA-5, commercial products of ishiru-sardine. 

The formation of the product of the linoleic acid oxidation, 13-hydroperoxyoctadecadienoic acid (HPOD), was maximal at pH 9.0. The enzymatic activity of immobilized LOX in... 

Multiply unsaturated linolenic and linoleic acid residues make triglycerides more vulnerable to oxidative degradation than oleic acid which is relatively stable. It is therefore desirable to hydrogenate the most unsaturated residues selectively without production of large quantities of stearic (fully saturated) acid. The stepwise reduction of an unsaturated oil may be visualized as ... 

Polyunsaturated fatty acids pose a slightly more complicated situation for the cell. Consider, for example, the case of linoleic acid shown in Figure 24.24. As with oleic acid, /3-oxidation proceeds through three cycles, and enoyl-CoA isomerase converts the cA-A double bond to a trans-b double bond to permit one more round of /3-oxidation. What results this time, however, is a cA-A enoyl-CoA, which is converted normally by acyl-CoA dehydrogenase to a trans-b, cis-b species. This, however, is a poor substrate for the enoyl-CoA hydratase. This problem is solved by 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase, the product of which depends on the organism. The mammalian form of this enzyme produces a trans-b enoyl product, as shown in Figure 24.24, which can be converted by an enoyl-CoA isomerase to the trans-b enoyl-CoA, which can then proceed normally through the /3-oxidation pathway. Escherichia coli possesses a... 

Lipid hydroperoxides are either formed in an autocatalytic process initiated by hydroxyl radicals or they are formed photochemically. Lipid hydroperoxides, known as the primary lipid oxidation products, are tasteless and odourless, but may be cleaved into the so-called secondary lipid oxidation products by heat or by metal ion catalysis. This transformation of hydroperoxides to secondary lipid oxidation products can thus be seen during chill storage of pork (Nielsen et al, 1997). The secondary lipid oxidation products, like hexanal from linoleic acid, are volatile and provide precooked meats, dried milk products and used frying oil with characteristic off-flavours (Shahidi and Pegg, 1994). They may further react with proteins forming fluorescent protein derivatives derived from initially formed Schiff bases (Tappel, 1956). 

Antioxidant capacities of common individual curcuminoids were determined in vitro by phosphomolybdenum and linoleic acid peroxidation methods. Antioxidant capacities expressed as ascorbic acid equivalents (pmol/g) were 3099 for curcumin, 2833 for demethoxycurcumin, and 2677 for bisdemethoxycurcumin at concentrations of 50 ppm. The same order of antioxidant activity (curcumin > demethoxycurcumin > bisdemethoxycurcumin) was observed when compared with BHT (buty-lated hydroxyl toluene) in linoleic peroxidation tests. The antioxidant activity of curcumin in the presence of ethyl linoleate was demonstrated and six reaction products were identified and structurally characterized. The mechanism proposed for this activity consisted of an oxidative coupling reaction at the 3 position of the curcumin with the lipid and a subsequent intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction. ... 

The origin of many of the components of black tea aroma has been studied. Aldehydes are produced by catechin quinone oxidation of amino acids. Enzymic oxidation of carotenoids during manufacture generates ionones and their secondary oxidation products such as theaspirone and dihydroactinidolide. Oxidation of linoleic acid is responsible for the formation of trans-2-hexenal.82... 

As mentioned earlier, oxidation of LDL is initiated by free radical attack at the diallylic positions of unsaturated fatty acids. For example, copper- or endothelial cell-initiated LDL oxidation resulted in a large formation of monohydroxy derivatives of linoleic and arachi-donic acids at the early stage of the reaction [175], During the reaction, the amount of these products is diminished, and monohydroxy derivatives of oleic acid appeared. Thus, monohydroxy derivatives of unsaturated acids are the major products of the oxidation of human LDL. Breuer et al. [176] measured cholesterol oxidation products (oxysterols) formed during copper- or soybean lipoxygenase-initiated LDL oxidation. They identified chlolcst-5-cnc-3(3, 4a-diol, cholest-5-ene-3(3, 4(3-diol, and cholestane-3 3, 5a, 6a-triol, which are present in human atherosclerotic plaques. 

Inhibition and stimulation of LOX activity occurs as a rule by a free radical mechanism. Riendeau et al. [8] showed that hydroperoxide activation of 5-LOX is product-specific and can be stimulated by 5-HPETE and hydrogen peroxide. NADPH, FAD, Fe2+ ions, and Fe3+(EDTA) complex markedly increased the formation of oxidized products while NADH and 5-HETE were inhibitory. Jones et al. [9] also demonstrated that another hydroperoxide 13(5)-hydroperoxy-9,ll( , Z)-octadecadienoic acid (13-HPOD) (formed by the oxidation of linoleic acid by soybean LOX) activated the inactive ferrous form of the enzyme. These authors suggested that 13-HPOD attached to LOX and affected its activation through the formation of a protein radical. Werz et al. [10] showed that reactive oxygen species produced by xanthine oxidase, granulocytes, or mitochondria activated 5-LOX in the Epstein Barr virus-transformed B-lymphocytes. 

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