scholarly journals Polymers from sugars and unsaturated fatty acids: ADMET polymerisation of monomers derived from d-xylose, d-mannose and castor oil

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 2681-2691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Piccini ◽  
David J. Leak ◽  
Christopher J. Chuck ◽  
Antoine Buchard
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
High Molecular Weight ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Castor Oil ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Transparent Films ◽  
Hemicellulosic Sugars

High molecular weight renewable polyesters are synthesised from an unsaturated fatty acid and structurally unmodified, hemicellulosic sugars, with post-polymerisation modification inducing semicrystallinity and allowing casting of transparent films.

Enterotoxin B production by Staphylococcus aureus under controlled fatty acid nutrition induced by cerulenin

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 1145-1150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Altenbern
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Membrane Fluidity ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Basal Medium ◽  
Aureus Strain ◽  
Enterotoxin B ◽  
Fatty Acid Supplement

Cells of Staphylococcus aureus, strain S-6, can grow in the presence of 100 μg of cerulenin/ml if the basal medium is supplemented with certain saturated or unsaturated fatty acids. The production of enterotoxin B (SEB) is markedly influenced by both the ratio of saturated to unsaturated fatty acid and by the melting point of the unsaturated fatty acid supplement. The results presented suggest that a certain degree of membrane fluidity promotes maximum SEB production and that greater or lesser degrees of membrane fluidity prohibit substantial SEB formation but fail to affect final growth density.

scholarly journals DesT Coordinates the Expression of Anaerobic and Aerobic Pathways for Unsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

2009 ◽  
Vol 192 (1) ◽  
pp. 280-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chitra Subramanian ◽  
Charles O. Rock ◽  
Yong-Mei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Biosynthesis ◽  
Acid Synthesis ◽  
Cell Extracts ◽  
Translational Start

ABSTRACT The fabA and fabB genes are responsible for anaerobic unsaturated fatty acid formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Expression of the fabAB operon was repressed by exogenous unsaturated fatty acids, and DNA sequences upstream of the translational start site were used to affinity purify DesT. The single protein interaction with the fabAB promoter detected in wild-type cell extracts was absent in the desT deletion strain, as was the repression of fabAB expression by unsaturated fatty acids. Thus, DesT senses the overall composition of the acyl-coenzyme A pool to coordinate the expression of the operons for the anaerobic (fabAB) and aerobic (desCB) pathways for unsaturated fatty acid synthesis.

scholarly journals The biochemical content and antioxidant capacities of endemic Tanacetum densum (Lab.) Schultz Bip. subsp. laxum, and Tanacetum densum (Lab.) Schultz Bip. subsp. amani Heywood growing in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 1106-1114
Author(s):  
İ. Emre
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Acid Content ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Phenolic Content ◽  
Total Phenolics ◽  
Fatty Acid Content ◽  
Radical Scavenging ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid Content

Abstract Medicinal plants have a significant role in preventing and curing several diseases, and Tanacetum L. is one of these plants. The aim of the present study is to determine the fatty acid, lipid-soluble vitamin, sterol, phenolic content, and antioxidant capacity of Tanacetum densum subsp. laxum and Tanacetum densum subsp. amani, to compare the effect of altitude on the biochemical content and to compare systematically by using fatty acids and phenolics. This study showed that palmitic acid (C16:0) and stearic acid (C18:0) are major sources of saturated fatty acid and oleic acid (C18:1 n9), and linoleic acid (18:2 n6c) and a-linolenic acid (C18:3 n3) are the principal unsaturated fatty acids in the two endemic Tanacetum densum taxa. Also, this study found that the unsaturated fatty acid content (60.11±1.61%) of Tanacetum densum subsp. laxum was higher than the unsaturated fatty acid content (44.13±1.28%) of Tanacetum densum subsp. amani. And also, the ω6/ω3 ratio of Tanacetum densum subsp. laxum (1.74) and Tanacetum densum subsp. amani (1.60) was found to be similar. However, this study determined that the lipid soluble vitamin and sterol content of two endemic Tanacetum taxa are low except for stigmasterol. Present study showed that catechin is principal phenolic in the Tanacetum densum taxa. This study also found that Tanacetum densum subsp. laxum and Tanacetum densum subsp. amani had the highest levels of catechin, vanillic acid, and caffeic acid content though the phenolic amounts, particularly catechin and quercetin, were dissimilar in the T. densum taxa. This study suggested that ecological conditions such as altitude may affect the biochemical content of two endemic Tanacetum densum taxa. Furthermore, the current study determined that two endemic Tanacetum L. taxa had potent radical scavenging capacities and found a correlation between total phenolics and antioxidant activity.

scholarly journals The effects of unsaturated fatty acid depletion on the proton permeability and energetic functions of yeast mitochondria

1977 ◽  
Vol 166 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Haslam ◽  
Norman F. Fellows
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Acid Content ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Content ◽  
Energy Charge ◽  
Tween 80 ◽  
Adenylate Energy Charge ◽  
Proton Permeability

1. The fatty acid composition of the ole-1 and ole-1 petite mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was manipulated by growing the organism in the presence of defined supplements of Tween 80 or by allowing cells that had first been grown in the presence of Tween 80 to deplete their unsaturated fatty acids by sequent growth in the absence of Tween 80. 2. The transition temperature of Arrhenius plots of mitochondrial ATPase (adenosine triphosphatase) increases as the unsaturated fatty acid content is lowered. 3. Cells require larger amounts of unsaturated fatty acids to grow on ethanol at lower temperatures. 4. Cells that stop growing owing to unsaturated fatty acid depletion at low temperatures are induced to grow further by raising the temperature and this results in a further depletion of unsaturated acids. This is due to a higher rate, but not a greater efficiency, of mitochondrial ATP synthesis. 5. Arrhenius plots of the passive permeability of mitochondria to protons between 4 and 37°C are linear. The rate and the Arrhenius activation energy of proton entry increase greatly as the unsaturated fatty acid content is lowered. 6. Unsaturated fatty acid depletion has the same effects on the proton permeability of ole-1 petite mitochondria, indicating that the mitochondrially synthesized subunits of the ATPase are not involved in the enhanced rates of proton entry. 7. The adenylate energy charge of depleted ole-1 cells is greatly decreased by growth on ethanol medium. 8. The adenylate energy charge of isolated mitochondria is also lowered by unsaturated fatty acid depletion. 9. The results confirm that unsaturated fatty acid depletion uncouples oxidative phosphorylation in yeast both in vivo and in vitro, and is a consequence of changes in the lipid part of the membrane.

scholarly journals Identification of genes associated with the biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acid and oil accumulation in herbaceous peony ‘Hangshao’ (Paeonia lactiflora ‘Hangshao’) seeds based on transcriptome analysis

BMC Genomics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-Song Meng ◽  
Yu-Han Tang ◽  
Jing Sun ◽  
Da-Qiu Zhao ◽  
Ke-Liang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Biosynthesis ◽  
Paeonia Lactiflora ◽  
Acid Biosynthesis ◽  
Oil Accumulation ◽  
Herbaceous Peony

Abstract Background Paeonia lactiflora ‘Hangshao’ is widely cultivated in China as a traditional Chinese medicine ‘Radix Paeoniae Alba’. Due to the abundant unsaturated fatty acids in its seed, it can also be regarded as a new oilseed plant. However, the process of the biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids in it has remained unknown. Therefore, transcriptome analysis is helpful to better understand the underlying molecular mechanisms. Results Five main fatty acids were detected, including stearic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and α-linolenic acid, and their absolute contents first increased and then decreased during seed development. A total of 150,156 unigenes were obtained by transcriptome sequencing. There were 15,005 unigenes annotated in the seven functional databases, including NR, NT, GO, KOG, KEGG, Swiss-Prot and InterPro. Based on the KEGG database, 1766 unigenes were annotated in the lipid metabolism. There were 4635, 12,304, and 18,291 DEGs in Group I (60 vs 30 DAF), Group II (90 vs 60 DAF) and Group III (90 vs 30 DAF), respectively. A total of 1480 DEGs were detected in the intersection of the three groups. In 14 KEGG pathways of lipid metabolism, 503 DEGs were found, belonging to 111 enzymes. We screened out 123 DEGs involved in fatty acid biosynthesis (39 DEGs), fatty acid elongation (33 DEGs), biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acid (24 DEGs), TAG assembly (17 DEGs) and lipid storage (10 DEGs). Furthermore, qRT-PCR was used to analyze the expression patterns of 16 genes, including BBCP, BC, MCAT, KASIII, KASII, FATA, FATB, KCR, SAD, FAD2, FAD3, FAD7, GPAT, DGAT, OLE and CLO, most of which showed the highest expression at 45 DAF, except for DGAT, OLE and CLO, which showed the highest expression at 75 DAF. Conclusions We predicted that MCAT, KASIII, FATA, SAD, FAD2, FAD3, DGAT and OLE were the key genes in the unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis and oil accumulation in herbaceous peony seed. This study provides the first comprehensive genomic resources characterizing herbaceous peony seed gene expression at the transcriptional level. These data lay the foundation for elucidating the molecular mechanisms of fatty acid biosynthesis and oil accumulation for herbaceous peony.

scholarly journals Variation in Milk Composition of Dairy Goats due to N-3 Unsaturated Fatty Acids Supplementation

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Gantner ◽  
Mirna Gavran ◽  
Maja Gregić ◽  
Božo Važić ◽  
Ranko Gantner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Protein Content ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Milk Fat ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Experimental Period ◽  
Milk Composition ◽  
Dairy Goats ◽  
Supplementation Period

The objective of this research was to determine the effect of addition of n-3 unsaturated fatty acids (α-linoleic, eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic) in dairy goats’ ration on milk composition (fat and protein content). Also, the persistence of the effect after supplementation was analysed. The research was conducted on dairy goats (Alpine and Saanen) bred at an indoor farm. Regarding the experimental period, the milk sampling at milking (morning and evening) was performed in the period before supplementation (BS), during supplementation (S), and after supplementation (AS). According to the added supplement, animals were randomly allocated into a group (G-4) with no added supplement and three test groups (G-1; G-2; G-3) where a supplement containing n-3 unsaturated fatty acid was added over a period of five days. The results of this research indicate that the addition of PUFA in goats’ ration changes the milk composition. The supplementation of α-linoleic resulted in increase of both milk fat and protein content. Furthermore, the addition of eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic resulted in decrease of fat but increase of protein content in milk. The observed trends also persisted after the supplementation period.

scholarly journals Identification of Organic Constituents in Cooking Oil by Adding Turmeric as a Potential Antioxidant Agent

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 8904-8914
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Oleic Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Palmitic Acid ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Saturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Content ◽  
Cooking Oil ◽  
Turmeric Extract

The objective of this study to compare the fatty acids composition in cooking oil from repeated frying without added turmeric extract and added. The research design is testing the composition of fatty acids in repeated cooking oil using two types of treatment, namely cooking oil from frying without adding turmeric extract and cooking oil from frying with 0.03% turmeric extract added with 10 times frying repeat because it is suspected that repeated frying will increase the composition of fatty acids in cooking oil. The analysis of fatty acids was conducted using gas chromatography. Based on these results that the fatty acid components were produced of saturated fatty acids, namely lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, and stearic acid, whereas unsaturated fatty acids also detected such as elaidic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, cis-11-eicosadienoic acid, linolenic acid, and cis-11,14-eicosadienoic acid. The highest saturated fatty acid content in cooking oil before frying is palmitic acid (30.88%), whereas unsaturated fatty acid was oleic acid (35.86%). The highest content of saturated fatty acids in cooking oil has been added turmeric extract before frying is palmitic acid (28.5%), while unsaturated fatty acid of oleic acid was 32.97%.

Effects of unsaturated fatty acid deprivation on neutral lipid synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1982 ◽  
Vol 152 (2) ◽  
pp. 747-756
Author(s):  
T M Buttke ◽  
A L Pyle
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Oleic Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Lipid Metabolism ◽  
Cell Growth ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acid ◽  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Lipid Synthesis ◽  
Yeast Cells

The effects of unsaturated fatty acid deprivation on lipid synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain GL7 were determined by following the incorporation of [14C]acetate. Compared to yeast cells grown with oleic acid, unsaturated fatty acid-deprived cells contained 200 times as much 14C label in squalene, with correspondingly less label in 2,3-oxidosqualene and 2,3;22,23-dioxidosqualene. Cells deprived of either methionine or cholesterol did not accumulate squalene, demonstrating that the effect of unsaturated fatty acid starvation on squalene oxidation was not due to an inhibition of cell growth. Cells deprived of olefinic supplements displayed additional changes in lipid metabolism: (i) an increase in 14C-labeled diacylglycerides, (ii) a decrease in 14C-labeled triacylglycerides, and (iii) increased levels of 14C-labeled decanoic and dodecanoic fatty acids. The changes in squalene oxidation and acylglyceride metabolism in unsaturated fatty acid-deprived cells were readily reversed by adding oleic acid. Pulse-chase studies demonstrated that the [14C]squalene and 14C-labeled diacylglycerides which accumulated during starvation were further metabolized when cells were resupplemented with oleic acid. These results demonstrate that unsaturated fatty acids are essential for normal lipid metabolism in yeasts.

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