GLYCOLIPIDS BASED ON GLYCEROL These lipids consist of a mono- or oligosaccharide moiety linked glycosidically to the hydroxyl group of glycerol which may […]
GLYCOSIDES OF AMINO ALCOHOLS While sphingolipids from animals and plants have a sphingoid base as common feature, some […]
HYDROCARBONS These compounds form the simplest form of lipids, they contain only carbon and hydrogen. They may be divided into aliphatic hydrocarbons with […]
POLYENOIC FATTY ACIDS These fatty acids (also called polyunsaturated fatty acids, PUFA) have 2 or more cis double bonds which are the […]
FATTY ACIDS Carboxylic acids occur in many molecular forms. At first It must be recalled that if the majority of the […]
FATTY ALCOHOLS Aliphatic alcohols occur naturally in free form (component of the cuticular lipids) but more usually in esterified (wax esters) or […]
VITAMIN K1 (PHYLLOQUINONE) The existence of the vitamin K group was discovered by H. Dam (Biochim. Zeitschr. 1929, 215, 475) in studying cholesterol […]
VITAMIN K1 (PHYLLOQUINONE) The existence of the vitamin K group was discovered by H. Dam (Biochim. Zeitschr. 1929, 215, 475) in studying cholesterol […]
HYDROXY ACIDS The hydroxyl group(s) may occur at various positions in the carbon chain which can be saturated or monoenoic. Some polyhydroxy fatty […]
MYCOLIC ACIDS They are complex hydroxylated branched-chain fatty acids with elevated carbon numbers (60-90). They may also contain diverse functional groups such […]