Complex Lipids Flashcards
constitute the main components of membranes.
Complex lipids
Complex lipids can be classified into two groups:
phospholipids and glycolipids
contain an alcohol, two fatty acids, and a phosphate group.
Phospholipids
There are two types of phospholipids:
glycerophospholipids and sphingolipids
the alcohol is glycerol.
glycerophospholipids
the alcohol is sphingosine.
sphingolipids
are complex lipids that contain carbohydrates.
Glycolipids
In this glycerol is the alcohol group.
Glycerophosphatides
In this group, inositol is the alco-hol, e.g. phosphatidyl inositol (lipositol).
Phosphoinositides
Alcohol present is sphingosine (also called as sphingol), an unsaturated amino alcohol. e. g. sphingomyelin.
Phosphosphingosides
GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPIDS also called
phosphoglycerides
contains a glycerol core with fatty acids. They can be the same or different subunits of fatty acids.
Glycerophospholipids
(tail, apolar) contains a fatty acid. typically saturated
Carbon 1
contains a fatty acid, typically unsaturated and in the cis conformation, thus appeamng, “bent”
Carbon 2
contains a phosphate group or an alcohol attached to a phosphate group
Carbon 3
the alcohol inositol is bonded to the rest of the molecute by a phosphate ester bond.
phosphatidylinositols (PI)
• has stearic acid on one end and linoleic acid in the middle
• used commercially in foods requiring a natural emulsifier and/or lubricant, and in pharmaceuticals as protective coverings
Lecithin
• a lipid found in biological membranes
• found particularly in nervous tissue such as the white matter of brain, nerves, neural tissue, and in spinal cord
• principal phospholipid in bacteria
Cephalin
• negatively charged phospholipid
• minor component in the cytosolic side of eukaryotic cell membranes
• play important roles in lipid signaling, cell signaling and membrane trafficking
Phosphatidyl inositol
• usually kept on the inner leaflet, the cytosolic side, of cell membranes by an enzyme called flippase
Phosphatidyl serine
an important component of the inner mitochondrial membrane
Cardiolipin
a rare genetic disorder that was recognized in the 1970s to Infantile death
Barth syndrome
It’s reported that CL content in the brain would decrease with aging
Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease
decreased CL levels and change in acyl chain composition are also observed in the mitochondrial dysfunction
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and heart failure
mainly caused by abnormal enhanced production of CL
Tangier disease
has recently been found to be deficient in the heart at the earliest stages of diabetes, possibly due to a lipid-digesting enzyme that becomes more active in diabetic heart muscle
Diabetes
with anti-cardiolipin antibodies can have recurrent thrombotic ayents even early in their mid to late teen years
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Cardiolipin from a cow heart is used as an antigen in the Wassermann test for?
Syphilis