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Occurrence of New Polyenoic Very Long Chain Acyl Residues in Lipids from Acanthamoeba castellanii

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PALUSIŃSKA-SZYSZ M., TURSKA-SZEWCZUK A., KARAŚ M., RUSSA R., DROŻAŃSKI W. J.
Acta Protozoologica
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2009
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vol. 48
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issue 1
PL
The cellular fatty acid composition of Acanthamoeba castellanii, a unicellular bacteriovorous organism, was reinvestigated. Lipids from amoebae grown axenically in proteose peptone-yeast extract-glucose medium were extracted with chloroform–methanol and separated by silicic acid column chromatography into non-polar and polar fractions. The fatty acid composition of the lipids and the double-bond position of the unsaturated acids have been determined by capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) of their corresponding methyl esters, 2-alkenyl-4,4-dimethyloxazoline (DMOX) derivatives and dimethyldisulfide (DMDS) adducts. Evidence is given that lipids from A. castellanii in addition to the three already identified saturated straight chain fatty acids: tetradecanoic (C14:0), hexadecanoic (C16:0), octadecanoic (C18:0), and six preponderant unsaturated fatty acids: hexadecenoic (C16:1 Δ7), octadecenoic (C18:1 Δ9), octadecadienoic (C18:2 Δ9,12), eicosadienoic (C20:2 Δ11,14), eicosatrienoic (C20:3 Δ8,11,14), and eicosatetraenoic (C20:4 Δ5,8,11,14), contain additionally four very long chain unsaturated fatty acids: octacosenoic (C28:1 Δ21), octacosadienoic (C28:2 Δ5,21), triacontadienoic (30:2 Δ21,24), and triacontatrienoic (C30:3 Δ5,21,24) previously unreported in lipids of A. castellanii. These new long chain fatty acids account for approximately 25% of total fatty acids. To our knowledge, this is the first report of very long chain polyenoic fatty acids present in lipids extracted from A. castellanii cells.
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