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(carboxylic acid). If the carbon-to-carbon bonds are all single, the acid is saturated; if any of the bonds is double or triple, the acid is unsaturated and is more reactive. A few fatty acids have branched chains; others contain ring structures (e.g.,prostaglandins). Fatty acids are ...
In addition, fatty acids are constituents of more complex structures like lipopolysaccharides. Fatty acids have interesting chemical properties because of highly hydrophobic (water repelling) and highly hydrophilic (water soluble) regions. Palmitate, e.g., is a 16-carbon fatty acid composed of a ...
Qualitative aroma assessments of dilutions of each fatty acid showed a wide range of unique aroma properties. Fatty acids exhibiting branching at the 4-position had goaty/muttony/sheepy aroma notes as did other fatty acids containing 8-carbon chain structures. Cheese-like aromas were associated ...
One is to purify and delipidate transmembrane proteins and to reconstitute them with selectively deuterated lipids; the other is to incorporate deuterated fatty acids or other deuterated substrates into biological membranes by means of the biosynthetic pathway. In the latter case, the intact biological...
Properties of biodiesels are determined by the structural features of the fatty acids and the alcohol used for the transesterification. With accurate knowledge of the influence of the molecular structures on the biodiesel properties, the composition of oils and alcohol can both be selected to give ...
A molecular engineering technology initially applied to insulin — and which has now been successfully applied to several biopharmaceuticals — entails the derivatization of peptides and proteins with fatty acids. Various protraction mechanisms are enabled by the specific characteristics and positions of ...
To investigate the effect of Fa-Trp on fatty liver, fatty acids were added to the hepatoma cell line HepG2 culture medium, and the effect of Fa-Trp on fat-accumulated cells was evaluated. As shown in Fig. 5a, the number of Oil-red O-positive cells was significantly increased in cells...
Many bacteria, such as the very successfulBacillusgenus, possess only very low levels ofunsaturated fatty acidsunder most growth conditions. Instead ofunsaturated fatty acids, the major fatty acids impartingmembrane fluidityare terminally branched chain fatty acids, which have physical properties similar ...
(Kishino etal.,2002a,2003a,2011a;Ogawa etal.,2001), demonstrated thatL. plantarumAKU 1009a can transform thecis-9,cis-12 diene structure of C18 fatty acids such as linoleic acid, α-linolenic acid, and γ-linolenic acid into the conjugated diene structurescis-9,trans-11 andtrans-9,trans...