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. 1985 Oct;20(10):693-8.
doi: 10.1007/BF02534389.

The distribution and acyl composition of plasmalogens in guinea pig heart

G Arthur, T Mock, C Zaborniak, P C Choy

The distribution and acyl composition of plasmalogens in guinea pig heart

G Arthur et al. Lipids. 1985 Oct.

Abstract

In guinea pig heart homogenate, 34% of both choline and ethanolamine phosphoglycerides were in the form of plasmalogens (1-alkenyl, 2-acyl glycerophospholipid). Plasmalogens accounted for 39% of the choline phosphoglycerides and 36% of the ethanolamine phosphoglycerides in the mitochondrial fraction. Ethanolamine plasmalogen was the major ethanolamine phosphoglyceride (63%) in the guinea pig heart microsomal fraction. A high arachidonyl content was found in both diacyl and 1-alkenyl, 2-acyl glycerophosphoethanolamine. The C-2 fatty acyl profiles of the diacyl and 1-alkenyl, 2-acyl choline phosphoglycerides differed considerably from each other in the homogenate as well as in the subcellular fractions. Significant differences in the C-2 fatty acyl profiles also were observed in diacyl and 1-alkenyl, 2-acyl ethanolamine phosphoglycerides. Such differences suggest there is no direct metabolic relationship between the diacyl glycerophosphocholine (-ethanolamine) and its plasmalogen analog.

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