Phase behavior of galactocerebrosides from bovine brain.
Phase behavior of galactocerebrosides from bovine brain.
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牛脑半乳糖脑苷脂的相行为。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00344a046
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发表时间:
1985
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Jungalwala,FB
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作者:
Curatolo,W;Jungalwala,FB
Bovine brain cerebrosides (BOV-CER) were separated by high-performance liquid chroma-tography into cerebroside fractions with a single acyl chain type or with a relatively homogeneous acyl chain distribution. The thermal behavior of these isolated cerebroside fractions was studied by differential scanning calorimetry. Nonhydroxy (n-acyl) fatty acidcerebrosides (NFA-CER) possessing a saturated acyl chain (C16: 0, C18: 0, C24: 0) exhibit their major order-disorder transition temperature TM at 83 C, independent of chain length. NFA-CER possessing primarily unsaturated acyl chains (C24: l) exhibits TM at 70 C.2-Hydroxy fatty acid cerebrosides (HFA-CER), which possess a saturated hydroxyacyl chain (C18: 0h, C24: 0h), exhibit TM at 70-72 C. Thus, naturally occurring cerebrosides exhibit high TM's that do not depend significantly on acyl chain length and that depend only to a small degree on unsaturation and the presence of a 2-hydroxy branch in the amide-linked chain. Isolated NFA-CER’s each exhibit metastable polymorphism of the type previously described for unfractionated NFA-CER [Curatolo, W.(1982) Biochemistry 21, 1761]. Polymorphism in HFA-CER is complex, with a different type of thermal behavior observed for each isolated acyl chain fraction studied. On prolonged storage at low temperature, unfractionated HFA-CER and unfractionated BOV-CER reach a highly ordered gel state similar to that which is readily reached by NFA-CER’s. These results indicate that all cerebrosides exhibit metastable poly-morphism. However, the kinetic barriers to reaching the stable gel state are greater for HFA-CER and BOV-CER than for NFA-CER.