The biochemical composition of fin whale blubber

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 2553-2562 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Lockyer ◽  
L. C. McConnell ◽  
T. D. Waters
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Energy Storage ◽  
Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
High Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Component ◽  
Fin Whale ◽  
Acid Component ◽  
Wet Weight

Fin whale blubber is a heterogenous tissue containing 8.9–77.4% lipid, 3.1–33.8% protein, and 0.07–0.73% ash by wet weight. The blubber may be subdivided into three macroscopically distinct zones. The outermost zones contain up to twice the lipid content of the innermost zone adjacent to the muscle, which contains more protein. Anterior ventral blubber contains less lipid, more protein (of which 50% is collagen), and more ash than posterior dorsal blubber. Foetal blubber contains 1.2% lipid, 10.6% protein, and 0.93% ash by wet weight. Blubber lipid contains ca. 60% triacylglycerol and ca. 25–30% free fatty acid, compared with ca. 25% triacylglycerol and ca. 10% free fatty acid in foetal blubber lipid, which also contains ca. 40% phospholipid. The high free fatty acid component is certainly partly due to postmortem hydrolysis in samples analysed. Monounsaturated fatty acids comprise ca. 60% of blubber lipid; 16:0, 16:1, 18:1, 20:1, 22:1, and 22:6 predominate, similar to the dietary intake. The predominant fatty acids in the outermost and the innermost blubber zones are 22:1 and 16:0, respectively. This may have significance in energy storage and catabolic breakdown.

Changes in the lipid content and fatty acid composition of 2nd-stage juveniles of Globodera rostochiensis after rehydration, exposure to the hatching stimulus and hatch

Parasitology ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. HOLZ ◽  
D. J. WRIGHT ◽  
R. N. PERRY
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Composition ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Acid Composition ◽  
Lipid Content ◽  
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Fraction ◽  
Acid Fraction

The total lipid content of the dry weight of whole cysts and 2nd-stage juveniles (J2) of Globodera rostochiensis was 17·1% in dry cysts, 20·9% in cysts soaked in distilled water (DW), 20·3% in cysts that had been in potato root diffusate (PRD) for 7 days, 7·3% in cysts that had been in PRD for 28 days and 29·2% for hatched J2. The fatty acid composition of the total lipid did not differ between dry cysts, cysts in DW and cysts in PRD for 7 days. However, major differences in the fatty acid composition of all lipid classes were found between rehydrated cysts in PRD and freshly hatched J2. After hatching, the degree of saturation and the percentage of monounsaturated fatty acids decreased and the percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids increased considerably, especially in the free fatty acid fraction, where C20[ratio ]1 showed an 8-fold decrease and C20[ratio ]4 a 33-fold increase. There was a difference in the fatty acid composition of cysts in PRD for 7 days and cysts in PRD for 28 days (after most of the J2 had hatched); with increased time in PRD the percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids increased and the percentage of monounsaturated fatty acids decreased in all lipid classes. Differences in the fatty acid profiles between cysts in PRD for 28 days and hatched J2 were found mainly in the free fatty acid and the non-acidic phospholipid fractions. The free fatty acid fraction of the cysts was dominated by monounsaturated fatty acids (52%), whereas the same fraction of hatched J2 contained large amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids (60%). These polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially C20[ratio ]4, might play an important part in nematode–plant interactions during infection.

D-optimal Design Optimization for the Separation of Oleic Acid from Malaysian High Free Fatty Acid Crude Palm Oil Fatty Acids Mixture Using Urea Complex Fractionation

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murad Bahadi ◽  
Nadia Salih ◽  
Jumat Salimon
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Oleic Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Vegetable Oils ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Urea Complex ◽  
Crude Palm Oil

Oleic acid (OA) rich vegetable oils is important for the daily essential dietary oils intake but restrict to particular oil such as olive oil. However OA enrichment to other vegetable oil such as palm oil is always possible. OA can be obtained from cheap resources such as high free fatty acid crude palm oil (HFFA-CPO). OA concentrate from HFFA-CPO fatty acids mixture requires efficient and low cost technique. Urea complex crystallization fractionation is a classic method for fractionating saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids from polyunsaturated fatty acids of many vegetable oils. In this work, the separation and purification of oleic acid (OA) from unsaturated fatty acids mixture fraction (USFA) of HFFA-CPO fatty acids mixture by urea complex fractionation (UCF) was studied. The crystallization reaction conditions of urea inclusion for the non-urea complex fraction (NUCF) were optimized using the response surface methodology (RSM) and the optimal model was developed. The results showed high content of OA (88%) in urea complex fraction (UCF) with 86% yield at optimal conditions of urea-to-USFAs ratio of 4.62 : 1 (w/w), crystallization temperature at –10°C and crystallization time of 24 h. The results have demonstrated that urea complex crystallization fractionation method is a very effective with low cost, stable, obtainable, and comparatively ease to recover of OA from polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) of an oil fatty acids mixture. Pure OA is plausible to be used back for the OA enrichment modification into palm oil for new dietary oil.

Cell wall lipopolysaccharides from Neisseria catarrhalis

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Adams ◽  
T. G. Tornabene ◽  
M. Yaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Lipid A ◽  
Soluble Fraction ◽  
Insoluble Fraction ◽  
Major Fatty Acid ◽  
Gram Negative Bacteria ◽  
Acetyl Phosphate ◽  
Fatty Acid Component ◽  
Acid Component

Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) prepared from N. catarrhalis cells were separated into a chloroform-soluble fraction (26%) and a chloroform-insoluble fraction (74%). Both LPS fractions contained D-glucose, D-galactose, D-glucosamine, galactosamine, lipid A, ethanolamine, fatty acids, acetyl, phosphate, and protein in approximately equal proportions. The lipid A moieties prepared from the two LPS fractions were also similar in composition to each other. The fatty acids and galactosamine of the LPS fractions were recovered quantitatively in their lipid A fractions. The major fatty acid component was β-hydroxylauric acid in contrast with β-hydroxymyristic acid, which is the major fatty acid component of the lipid A of N. perflava and other Gram-negative bacteria. The lipid A of N. catarrhalis also contained a considerable amount of D-glucose and D-galactose, which are not normal constituents of lipid A fractions. The presence of amino acids (ca. 2%) in all fractions suggested that proteins were an integral part of the LPS molecules. The absence of heptose and 3-deoxyoctulosonic acid (KDO) from the N. catarrhalis LPS shows that it lacks a lipopolysaccharide "core" structure similar to that present in the LPS of N. perflava; the polysaccharide part of the LPS molecule is also compositionally different from that of N. perflava. These differences may provide additional evidence to that already accumulated from other sources that N. catarrhalis is taxonomically a "false neisseria".

The nature of Covalently bound fatty acids in wool fibres

1991 ◽  
Vol 42 (8) ◽  
pp. 1285 ◽  
Author(s):  
AP Negri ◽  
HJ Cornell ◽  
DE Rivett
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Major Fatty Acid ◽  
Wool Fibre ◽  
Fatty Acid Component ◽  
Alcoholic Alkali ◽  
Acid Component ◽  
Alkali Solutions ◽  
Ester Linkage ◽  
Covalently Bound

The wool fibre contains a fatty acid component which can only be liberated from the fibre by treatment with alcoholic alkali solutions. The major fatty acid from this component has been isolated in quantity and purified. Using GC/MS and NMR, the fatty acid was identified as 18-methyleicosanoic acid. The results obtained from transesterification experiments suggest that the fatty acid is covalently bound to the fibre protein by an ester linkage.

Separation of free fatty acids from high free fatty acid crude palm oil using short-path distillation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abd Al-Wali Japir ◽  
Jumat Salimon ◽  
Darfizzi Derawi ◽  
Murad Bahadi ◽  
Muhammad Rahimi Yusop
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Free Fatty Acids ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Short Path ◽  
High Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Crude Palm Oil ◽  
Short Path Distillation

A comparison of fatty acid profiles and lipolysis during ripening of dry-cured loins obtained from a native pig breed (ChatoMurciano) and from a modern crossbreed pig

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
pp. 1928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Tejada ◽  
Eva Salazar ◽  
Adela Abellán ◽  
Begoña Peinado ◽  
Juana Mulero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Free Fatty Acid ◽  
Neutral Lipids ◽  
Saturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Lipid Fraction ◽  
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Fraction ◽  
Polar Lipids ◽  
Lipid Fractions

The fatty acid composition of neutral lipids (NL), polar lipids (PL) and free fatty acids (FFA) was analysed in dry-cured loins obtained from the native pig breed Chato Murciano (CM) and from a modern crossbreed pig genotype (CG) during the ripening stage (between the 30 and 60 days of processing). Fatty acid concentrations from neutral lipids, polar lipids and free fatty acid fractions were affected by breed. With respect to ripening time, lipolysis was more intense in the CG than in CM product, resulting in a decrease in the concentrations of fatty acids in the NL and PL fractions, accompanied by a corresponding increase in FFA. Results for lipid determination provided evidence that the concentrations of the different groups of fatty acids within the lipid fractions depend on the breed. In order of abundance, the groups of fatty acids in the neutral lipid fraction were monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) > saturated fatty acids (SFA) > polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) (59%, 37% and 4% in CM; 58%, 35% and 6% in CG) at 60 days of processing. In the polar lipid fraction, the order was SFA > PUFA > MUFA (44%, 29% and 27% in CM; 42%, 38% and 20% in CG), and in free fatty acid fraction, the order was MUFA > PUFA > SFA (40%, 30%, and 30% in CM; 39%, 32%, and 29% in CG) at 60 days of processing.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Chemical Variability of Cured Vanilla Beans (Vanilla tahitensis and Vanilla planifolia)

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 1934578X0900401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christel Brunschwig ◽  
François Xavier Collard ◽  
Jean-Pierre Bianchini ◽  
Phila Raharivelomanana
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Vanilla Planifolia ◽  
Chemical Variability ◽  
Total Fatty Acids ◽  
Curing Method ◽  
Fatty Acid Compositions

In order to establish a chemical fingerprint of vanilla diversity, thirty samples of V. planifolia J. W. Moore and V. tahitensis G. Jackson cured beans from seven producing countries were examined for their aroma and fatty acid contents. Both fatty acid and aroma compositions were found to vary between vanilla species and origins. Vanillin was found in higher amounts in V. planifolia (1.7-3.6% of dry matter) than in V. tahitensis (1.0-2.0%), and anisyl compounds were found in lower amounts in V. planifolia (0.05%) than in V. tahitensis (1.4%-2.1%). Ten common and long chain monounsaturated fatty acids (LCFA) were identified and were found to be characteristic of the vanilla origin. LCFA derived from secondary metabolites have discriminating compositions as they reach 5.9% and 15.8% of total fatty acids, respectively in V. tahitensis and V. planifolia. This study highlights the role of the curing method as vanilla cured beans of two different species cultivated in the same country were found to have quite similar fatty acid compositions.

scholarly journals Effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids in diets fed to sows on fatty acids in brain, muscle and skin of their piglets

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
I De Gasperín ◽  
J.G. Vicente ◽  
J.M. Pinos-Rodríguez ◽  
F Montiel ◽  
R Loeza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Soybean Oil ◽  
Fatty Acid Profile ◽  
Saturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Profiles ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fat ◽  
Pork Lard ◽  
Piglet Survival

The aim of this research was to determine fatty acid profiles in piglet brain, skin, and muscle, and in the milk of sows fed fat with different saturation grades during gestation and lactation. At 42 days of gestation, 50 multiparous sows were randomly allocated to one of two treatments, namely a diet containing pork lard (n = 25) and a diet containing soybean oil (n = 25). The fats were provided at 3.6% during gestation and at 4% during lactation. The experimental diets were offered through the weaning of the piglets. The fatty acid profile of the milk was determined fourteen days after parturition. At weaning (21 days postpartum) and seven days later, one of the piglets (n = 64) from 16 sows allocated to each treatment was selected at random to determine fatty acid profiles in brain, skin and muscle. Saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids were higher in the diet with pork lard than in that with soybean oil, in which the polyunsaturated fat content was higher. A higher saturation of fatty acids was found in milk from the sows that consumed pork lard, which contained more saturated fatty acids than the milk from sows that consumed soybean oil. The fatty acid profiles in muscle and skin of the piglets were affected by the diet of the sows. However, the fatty acid profile of the piglets’ brains was not affected by the diet of their mothers. Keywords: fat saturation, lard, piglet survival, sow feeding, soybean oil

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