Neutral lipids, phospholipids, and a betaine lipid of the snow mold fungus Microdochium nivale

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 1051-1059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Istokovics ◽  
Naoki Morita ◽  
Kazuo Izumi ◽  
Tamotsu Hoshino ◽  
Isao Yumoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Neutral Lipid ◽  
Polar Lipid ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Microdochium Nivale ◽  
Neutral Lipid Fraction ◽  
Polar Lipid Fraction ◽  
Snow Mold ◽  
Betaine Lipid

The hyphae of the snow mold Microdochium nivale contained lipids in a yield of about 10% w/w of the dry matter of hyphae. The total lipid was fractionated into neutral and polar lipid fractions. In the neutral lipid fraction, triacylglylcerol was the sole major component. As minor components, ergosterol, diacylglycerol, free fatty acid, and fatty acyl ergosterol were identified. The polar lipid fraction contained phospholipids, glycolipids, and a lipid containing neither phosphorus nor sugar. Phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylserine, and phosphatidic acid were identified as phospholipids. The polar lipid fraction included at least four kinds of glycolipids that have not been identified. A very unusual lipid in fungi, a betaine lipid, diacylglyceryltrimethylhomoserine, was identified by chemical and physicochemical analyses. The level of the neutral lipid fraction, which accounted for 60% of the total lipid in hyphae at the exponential phase, was significantly increased compared with that of the polar lipid fraction and constituted 80% of the total at the stationary phase. The neutral and polar lipids of Microdochium nivale contained 18:3 (9,12,15), 18:2 (9,12), 18:1 (9), and 16:0 as principal fatty acids. Among them, 18:2 (9,12) and 18:3 (9,12,15) were the major fatty acids of triacylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, and phosphatidylethanolamine, whereas in diacylglyceryltrimethylhomoserine, the major components were 16:0 and 18:3 (9,12,15).Key words: snow mold, phospholipids, betaine lipid, fatty acid, Microdochium nivale.

The effect of long term storage on the lipid reserves and fatty acid composition of cysts and hatched juveniles of Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Holz ◽  
D.J. Wright ◽  
R.N. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Neutral Lipid ◽  
Lipid Content ◽  
Neutral Lipids ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Neutral Lipid Fraction ◽  
Fatty Acid Profiles ◽  
Acidic Phospholipids

AbstractThe lipid composition of three batches of single generation cysts of Globodera rostochiensis, stored dry at 4°C for 1,7 and 13 years, comprised 81%, 74% and 53% neutral lipids, 14%, 18% and 27% non-acidic phospholipids and 5%, 8% and 20% free fatty acids, respectively. Lipids in eggs from two batches of G. pallida cysts, stored for 3 and 7 years, comprised 80% and 67% neutral lipids, 15% and 23% non-acidic phospholipids and 5% and 10% free fatty acids, respectively. All batches contained the same fatty acids which were dominated by C18:l, C20:l and C20:4. The fatty acid profiles of hatched J2 of G. rostochiensis from two batches, stored for 1 and 9 years, differed only in their free fatty acid fractions. Thus, while it is not possible to determine the age of cysts by their fatty acid profile, it may be possible to use the relative amounts of the main lipid classes as an indicator of age. Four batches of hatched J2 of G. pallida were investigated, with sample A hatched during the second week in potato root diffusate, B during week 3, C during week 4 and D during weeks 5 and 6 and stored for 3.5 days (on average) after hatching. Total lipid content was 27.2%, 31.5%, 18.5% and 6.3% of the dry weight for A, B, C and D, respectively. In the neutral lipid fraction of D an increase in C18:l and to a lesser extent C18:2 was observed. In the free fatty acid fraction of sample D, the percentages of C18:l, C18:2 and C18:3 were greater but the percentages of C20:3 and C20:4 were smaller compared with sample C. Fresh early hatched J2 of G. rostochiensis were compared with later hatched and stored (for 13 days on average) individuals for their lipid content and fatty acid composition. The lipid content was 26.1% and 11.4% in fresh and stored J2, respectively. Total lipid consisted of 77% and 70% neutral lipid, 18% and 26% non-acidic phospholipid and 6% and 4% free fatty acid in fresh and stored J2, respectively. In the neutral lipid fraction of stored J2 C18:l, C16:0 and C18:0 increased, whereas C20:4, C20:l and C20:3 decreased. Therefore, both neutral lipid and free fatty acid fractions showed changes in their fatty acid profiles after long delayed hatching and/or storage in both PCN species.

Variations du contenu lipidique occasionnées par la carence en pyridoxine du milieu nutritif de Ceratocystis ulmi

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-104
Author(s):  
Y. Dalpé
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Fatty Acid Content ◽  
Neutral Lipid Fraction ◽  
Polar Lipid Fraction ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Content ◽  
Synthetic Growth Medium ◽  
Total Disappearance ◽  
Synthetic Growth

Pyridoxin deficiency of the synthetic growth medium results on four of the five strains of the studied Ceratocystis ulmi in an increase (6.9 to 18.8%) of the lipid content of the mycelium. This increase mainly affects the neutral lipid fraction. The analysis of fatty acids shows a significative decrease, both in the neutral and the polar lipid fraction, of the polyunsaturated fatty acid content, and in some cases the total disappearance of the linolenic acid.

scholarly journals Seasonal Variations of Lipid Content and Composition in Starfish Asterias amurensis Lütken

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.K.M. Azad Shah ◽  
H. Kurihara ◽  
K. Takahashi
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Lipid Content ◽  
Polar Lipid ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Total Lipid Content ◽  
Polar Lipid Fraction ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Asterias Amurensis ◽  
Lipid Fractions

The total lipid content, lipid classes and fatty acid composition in the internal organs of starfish (Asterias amurensis) were analyzed to determine the effects of seasons (winter and spring). The non-polar and polar lipid fractions obtained from starfish internal organs were analyzed through two seasons using thin layer chromatography (TLC) and gas liquid chromatography. Total lipid content of internal organs was 10.18% in spring and 8.21% in winter as wet weight basis. The predominant lipid class in spring was triglyceride whereas free fatty acids were the main lipid class in winter. The most abundant fatty acid of non-polar lipid fraction was eicosamonoenoic acid (C20:1) in spring having the highest proportion (29.2% of total fatty acid) as compared to the winter. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) was also found significantly (P < 0.05) higher in spring compared to winter in the non-polar lipid fraction. On the other hand, comparatively lower amount of EPA was observed in spring than winter in the polar lipid fraction. Proportions of other fatty acids in non-polar and polar lipid fractions were also varied seasonally. This result might be useful for commercial production of lipid from internal organ of starfish with a view to potential use in food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and other non-food industries.

The fatty acid composition of conidia of Aspergillus niger V. Tiegh.

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1575-1576 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gunasekaran ◽  
W. M. Hess ◽  
D. J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Composition ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Aspergillus Niger ◽  
Lipid Content ◽  
Polar Lipid ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Lipid Bodies ◽  
Neutral Lipid Fraction ◽  
Total Fatty Acids

The lipids from conidia of Aspergillus niger were extracted and identified. The polar lipid content was higher (54.3%) than the neutral lipid fraction (45.7%). The major fatty acids present were C16:0, C18:0, C18:1, and C18:2. The amount of unsaturation in total fatty acids (62%) was higher than the unsaturation in the polar lipids (35%). Freeze-etched replicas of dormant conidia revealed the presence of lipid bodies.

The metabolism of exogenous fatty acids by preimplantation mouse embryos developing in vitro

Development ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Flynn ◽  
Nina Hillman
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Palmitic Acid ◽  
Neutral Lipid ◽  
Polar Lipid ◽  
Mouse Embryos ◽  
Exogenous Fatty Acid ◽  
Preimplantation Mouse Embryos ◽  
Preimplantation Mouse

The utilization of fatty acids from the culture medium has been examined in preimplantation mouse embryos developing in vitro. Incorporation of exogenous fatty acid into embryo lipids was examined by culturing 8-cell mouse embryos for 2 h in a medium containing 0·1 HIM [9, 10-3H]palmitic acid (900 mCi/mmol). Lipids were extracted from the embryos, and the total lipid extract was fractionated into various neutral lipid and polar lipid classes by thin-layer chromatography. Most of the radioactivity, over 93 %, was recovered in neutral glycerides (mono- di-, and triacylglycerols). about 2% of the total radioactivity was recovered in other neutral lipid species including fatty acids, fatty alcohols, and sterol esters. The remainder of the radioactivity was recovered in polar lipids. Seventy-four per cent of the polar lipid radioactivity was present in the choline phosphatides. Other labelled phospholipid and glycolipid species included ethanolamine phosphatides, inositol and/or serine phosphatides, sphingomyelin, choline lysophosphatides, sulfatides, cerebrosides, and monoglycosylglycerides. Chemical degradation studies of labelled embryo lipids indicated that the tritium label was entering into embryo lipids as the fatty acid and not via metabolic recycling. The oxidation of exogenous fatty acids by mouse embryos was assessed by incubating variously staged embryos for 4h in medium containing 0·1 mM [U-14C]palmitic acid (50 mCi/mmol) and quantitating the production of 14CO2. The rate of fatty acid oxidation was found to be relatively constant from the unfertilized egg up to the 8-cell stage and then increase significantly between the 8-cell and late blastocyst stages. The results suggest that preimplantation mouse embryos developing in vitro can utilize fatty acids from the medium both for incorporation into embryo lipids and for energy production via oxidation.

scholarly journals The fuel of respiration of rat kidney cortex

1969 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Weidemann ◽  
H. A. Krebs
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Neutral Lipid ◽  
Ketone Body ◽  
Ketone Bodies ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Kidney Cortex ◽  
Neutral Lipid Fraction ◽  
Body Formation ◽  
Endogenous Substrates

1. In kidney-cortex slices from the well-fed rat, glucose (5mm) supplied 25–30% of the respiratory fuel; in the starved state, the corresponding value was 10%. These results are based on measurements of the net uptake of glucose and of the specific radioactivity of labelled carbon dioxide formed in the presence of [U−14C]-glucose. 2. Added acetoacetate (5mm) or butyrate (10mm) provided up to 80%, and added oleate (2mm) up to 50% of the fuel of respiration. The oxidation of endogenous substrates was suppressed correspondingly. 3. More [U−14C]oleate was removed by the tissue than could be oxidized by the amount of oxygen taken up; less than 25% of the oleate removed was converted into respiratory carbon dioxide and about two-thirds was incorporated into the tissue lipids. The rate of oleate incorporation into the neutral-lipid fraction was calculated to be equivalent to the rate of oxidation of endogenous fat, which provided the chief remaining fuel. 4. The contribution of endogenous substrates to the respiration (50%) in the presence of added oleate is taken to reflect either a high turnover rate of the endogenous neutral lipids (approx. half-life 2·5hr.) or a raised rate of lipolysis caused by the experimental conditions in vitro. 5. Added l-α-glycerophosphate (2·5mm) increased oleate incorporation into the neutral-lipid fraction by up to 40% (i.e. caused a net synthesis of triglyceride). 6. Lactate (2·5mm) added as sole substrate supplied 30% of the respiratory fuel, but with added oleate (2mm) lactate was converted quantitatively into glucose. Oleate stimulated the rate of gluconeogenesis from lactate by 45%. 7. The oxidation of both long-chain and short-chain even-numbered fatty acids was accompanied by ketone-body formation. Ketone-body synthesis from oleate, but not from butyrate, increased six- to seven-fold after 48hr. of starvation. The maximum rates of renal ketogenesis (80μmoles/hr./g. dry wt., with butyrate) were about 20% of the maximum rates observed in the liver (on a weight-for-weight basis) and accounted for, at most, 35% of the fatty acid removed. 8. dl-Carnitine (1·0mm) had no effect on the rates of uptake of acetate, butyrate or oleate or on the rate of radioactive carbon dioxide formation from [U−14C]oleate, but increased ketone-body formation from oleate by more than 100%. Ketone-body formation from butyrate was not increased. 9. There is evidence supporting the assumption that there are cells in which gluconeogenesis and ketogenesis occur together, characterized by equal labelling of [U−14C]oleate and the ketone bodies formed, and other cells that oxidize fat and do not form ketone bodies. 10. Inhibitory effects of unlabelled acetoacetate on the oxidation of [1−14C]butyrate and of unlabelled butyrate on [4−14C]acetoacetate oxidation show that fatty acids and ketone bodies compete as fuels on the basis of their relative concentrations. 11. The pathway of ketogenesis in renal cortex must differ from that of the liver, as β-hydroxy-β-methylglutaryl-CoA synthetase is virtually absent from the kidney. In contrast with the liver the kidney possesses 3-oxo acid CoA-transferase (EC 2.8.3.5), and the ready reversibility of this reaction and that of thiolase (EC 2.3.1.9) provide a mechanism for ketone-body formation from acetyl-CoA. This mechanism may apply to extrahepatic tissues generally, with the possible exception of the epithelium of the rumen and intestines.

Variation in neutral and polar lipid compositions of ova in ten reproductively isolated populations of walleye (Sander vitreus)

2004 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray D Wiegand ◽  
Thomas A Johnston ◽  
Jennifer Martin ◽  
William C Leggett
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Neutral Lipid ◽  
Lipid Content ◽  
Polar Lipid ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Egg Mass ◽  
Sander Vitreus ◽  
Isolated Populations ◽  
Relative Abundances ◽  
High Level

We examined variation in the mass and composition of egg lipids within and among 10 walleye (Sander vitreus) populations. Larger eggs contained more lipid, but neither absolute lipid content (mg·egg–1) nor relative lipid content (percent of egg mass as lipid) were related to maternal age or size. Among populations, the proportion of egg mass as neutral lipid varied significantly, whereas the proportion as polar lipid did not. Egg fatty acid composition did vary with respect to maternal traits. In the Lake Ontario population, larger females appear to produce a qualitatively superior egg; relative abundances of docosahexaenoic acid (22:6(n–3), DHA) and arachidonic acid (20:4(n–6), AA) increased, and the relative abundance of eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5(n–3), EPA) decreased in egg fatty acids with increasing maternal length. We predicted that fatty acid profiles would be less variable in the polar than in the neutral lipid fraction. Relative abundances of DHA, AA, the sum of AA and EPA, and several other fatty acid classes were all significantly less variable in the polar than in the neutral fraction both among females and among populations. Our results indicate a high level of conservatism of egg lipid mass and polar lipid composition in this species.

scholarly journals Lipidomic markers of sperm cryotolerance in cattle

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly C. Evans ◽  
Thu T. N. Dinh ◽  
Muhammet Rasit Ugur ◽  
Mustafa Hitit ◽  
Dishnu Sajeev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Composition ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Acid Composition ◽  
Polar Lipid ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Saturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Membrane Integrity ◽  
Reproductive Technologies

AbstractThe objective of the current study was to determine the fatty acid composition of sperm from Holstein bulls with different freezability (Good and Poor; n = 12). Fatty acids were extracted from frozen sperm in 1:2 (v/v) chloroform–methanol solvent, fractionated into neutral and polar fractions, and composition determined by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. Thirty-four fatty acids were quantified and their concentrations and percentages within each lipid fraction were calculated. Overall, saturated fatty acids (SFA) were predominant, accounting for 71 to 80% of fatty acids in neutral and polar lipid factions. There were marked differences in fatty acid composition between the lipid fractions (P < 0.001). The branched chain fatty acid (BCFA) concentration (15 to 18 µg) was almost twice as much as polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) concentration found in the polar lipid fraction (8 to 9 µg; P < 0.001). Sperm with different freezability phenotypes only had a few differences in 22:0, 18:1 cis 9, and 14:0 13-methyl fatty acids (P ≤ 0.011). These results are significant because they reveal key understandings of fatty acid composition of sperm membrane and lay a foundation for the manipulation of membrane integrity, fluidity, and stability to advance the assisted reproductive technologies.

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