Amount and Composition of Wax Esters in Various Tissue Lipids of Forked Hake Laemonema longipes
The amounts and compositions of wax esters (WE) in various tissues of the forked hake Laemonema longipes were examined. Liver specimens containing copious amounts of lipids (72.9%) were composed almost entirely of WE (87.4%). Flesh and ovary samples contained small amounts of lipids (0.4% and 1.4%)...
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Published in | Journal of Oleo Science Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 439 - 445 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | Japanese English |
Published |
Tokyo
公益社団法人 日本油化学会
2002
Japan Oil Chemists' Society Japan Science and Technology Agency |
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Summary: | The amounts and compositions of wax esters (WE) in various tissues of the forked hake Laemonema longipes were examined. Liver specimens containing copious amounts of lipids (72.9%) were composed almost entirely of WE (87.4%). Flesh and ovary samples contained small amounts of lipids (0.4% and 1.4%) with lower WE content (1.9 % and 13.1%, respectively). WE in the tissue lipids was found to consist mostly of C38, C36, C40, C34 and C42 components (85.0-90.9%) in the carbon chain lengths. Fatty alcohols originating in WE were essentially monoenoic (89.0-95.1%) with the predominant components being 22:1 (54.0-60.9%) and 20:1 (26.7-28.1%) alcohols. Each of the monoenoic fatty alcohols comprised their isomers, and the more abundant components were 22:1n-11 (49.1-54.8%) and 20:1n-11 (21.1-22.1%) alcohols. Component fatty acids in WE from liver lipids were more monoenoic (71.8%) with 18:1n-9 (20.4%), 22:1n-11 (13.4%) and 16:1n-7 (11.8%) acids. Highly purified WE was separated from liver lipids adsorbed on silicic acid or activated aluminum oxide with n-hexane. |
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ISSN: | 1345-8957 1347-3352 |
DOI: | 10.5650/jos.51.439 |