Cell membrane localization of long chain C24?C30 fatty acids in two marine demosponges |
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Authors: | Mishelle P Lawson Janice E Thompson Carl Djerassi |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, 94305 Stanford, CA |
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Abstract: | Subcellular fractionation by differential centrifugation was performed on two previously unstudied marine sponges (Reniera sp. andPseudaxinyssa sp.) that represent both major subclasses of the Demospongiae. Long chain fatty acids (LCFA) with 24–30 carbon units were
found as major constituents of cell membrane isolates of both sponges. Most LCFA were polyunsaturated and were constituents
of the phospholipids, which are typical membrane lipids, and in particular the amino-phospholipids. The LCFA composition of
phospholipids from whole sponge tissue was shown to provide a reliable indication of the LCFA composition of cell membrane
phospholipids in the sponges studied. An unusual triply branched C16 isoprenoid fatty acid, 4,8,12-trimethyltridecanoic acid, also was identified as a cell membrane acid in the spongePseudaxinyssa sp.
Part 16 of “Phospholipid Studies of Marine Organisms.” For Part 15 in this series see Dasgupta, A., Ayanoglu, E., Tomer, K.B.,
and Djerassi, C. (1987)Chem. Phys. Lipids 43, 101–111. |
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