The uptake of dissolved free fatty acids from seawater by a marine filter feeder, Crassostrea virginica

Autor: Terry A Bunde, Melvin Fried
Rok vydání: 1978
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Zdroj: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology. 60:139-144
ISSN: 0300-9629
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(78)90219-0
Popis: 1. 1. Crassostrea virginica can remove free fatty acids from seawater at naturally occurring concentrations of 0.25 μM. 2. 2. The uptake is saturable for both palmitate and stearate but not oleate; above 3 μM the uptake is greatly enhanced by micellar formation. The V max for palmitate is 1.67 nmole/g per hr and stearate is 1.22 nmole/g per hr. 3. 3. The most rapidly labeled lipid in the CHCl 3 extracts of the animal bries is phosphatidyl choline. The V max for the palmitate incorporation into phosphatidyl choline is 850 nmole/g per hr.
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