Chapter 23 Flashcards

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Lipids

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  • Biomolecules that are **not water soluble **
  • mostly hydrocarbon⇒london forces
  • long term energy storage→Fats & Oils
  • short term energy storage→Glycogen
  • structual cell membrane
  • chemical messengers→ Steriods & eicosanoids (do not have fatty acids)
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Fatty acid

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  • long chain monocarboxyclic acids (12-24)
  • always an even mumber of carbons

Saturated:

  • all c-c bonds are single bonds

_Unsaturated: _

  • conatin at least one c-c double bond

Polyunsaturated:

  • two or more c-c double bonds
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Cis double bonds

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  • put a kink in the carbon chain, that forces the hydrocarbons apart
  • lower melthing point b/c fewer london forces
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Essential fatty acids

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  • Linoleic (18:2)
  • Linolenic (18:3)
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5
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Waxes

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An ester of a fatty acid + a long chain alcohol

  • simplest fatty acid in nature
  • function: water proffing
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triglycerides

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glycerol + 3 Fatty acids

  • animal fats & vegatable oils
  • Function: long term energy storage
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Adipocytes

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  • light yellow tissue under the skin
  • storage occurs in adipocytes
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Properties of fats & oils

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Oil:

  • a mixture of triglycerols that is liquid b/c it conations a high amount of unsaturated fatty acids
  • liquid

Fat:

  • a mixture of trigycerols that is solid b/c it contains high amounts of satutrated fatty acids
  • solid
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9
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Good & Bad fats:

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  • High concetrations of saturated fat is considered to be bad
  • trans fat is considered to be bad
  • polyunsaturated fats can be good or bad. (Omega-6 is bad, Omega-3 is better)
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Partial hydrogenation

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Hydrogen is added to c-c double bonds to make them single bonds

Purose:

  • convert liquid oils to solid fats

Can produce trans fats

(oils⇒fats); (less saturated⇒more saturated)

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Saponification

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soap making

  • salt of the fatty acids = soap
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12
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Detergents

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sythetic soaps where the carboxylate ion of a soap is replaced by a different higly polar group like an amine or sulfonic acid

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Micelles

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a spherical aggregation of soap molecules arranged w/ hydrophobic tail in the center and hydrophillic head on the outside

  • soap molecules form micelles in water
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Membrane lipids

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molecules that form cell membranes

  • two hydrophobic tails and a polar head

3 major kind:

  • phospholipid- lipid w/ ester link between phosphoric acid and alcohol
  • glycolipids- sphingosince w/attached carbohydrate (no phosphate)
  • sphinogolipids-amide; sphinogosine & glycolipids
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membrane lipid structures:

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16
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Choline:

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  • quanternary amine
  • permanent + charge
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lecithin

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when an amino alcohol attached to phosphate in a glyceropholipid is choline the membrane is called lecithin

  • emulsifying agent
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Sphigomylein

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phospholipids that use choline as their polar head

  • foun din high concentrations in cells of the myelin sheath
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Glycolipids:

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Cerebrosides: monosaccarides as their polar head.

  • Particually abundant in nerve cell membranes
  • Amide

Gangliosides: oligilosaccarides as the polar head

20
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Cholesterol

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Starting material for synthesis of all other steriods

  • regulate the fluidity of cell membranes
  • hydrophobic
  • nearly flat

Sterols( fluidity)

21
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saturation

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  • Saturated with hydrogens
  1. saturated (single bonds to H) Most saturated
  2. monosaturated (double bonds to H)
  3. polysaturated ( multiplebonds to H) Less saturated
22
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Integral proteins

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  • embedded in the membrane
  • act as a gate or channel to let selected molecules pass across the membrane
23
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passive & active transport

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Passive (no energy):

  1. Simple (random)
  2. Facilitated- requires the protein to change

Active (energy):

  1. Na+/K+
24
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chemical messengers

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Eicosanoids “bobby pin”:

  • made from arachidoric acid
  1. prostaglanding→inflammatory
  2. thromboxnes→ inflammatory
  3. leukotries→ 3 conjuated DB’s