POSSIBLE ROLE OF FATTY-ACIDS AND THEIR CO NFORMATION IN RESPIRATORY-FUNCTION AND ADAPTATION OF MEMBRANES OF FISH GILL AND MAMMALIAN LUNG

Authors
ZABELINSKII SA BROVTSYNA NB CHEBOTAREVA MA KRIVCHENKO AI
Citation
Sa. Zabelinskii et al., POSSIBLE ROLE OF FATTY-ACIDS AND THEIR CO NFORMATION IN RESPIRATORY-FUNCTION AND ADAPTATION OF MEMBRANES OF FISH GILL AND MAMMALIAN LUNG, Izvestia Akademii nauk SSSR. Seria biologiceskaa, (4), 1994, pp. 550-560
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
Izvestia Akademii nauk SSSR. Seria biologiceskaa → ACNP
ISSN journal
00023329
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
550 - 560
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-3329(1994):4<550:PROFAT>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Fatty acid composition of major phospholipids has been studied in 12 f ish and 7 mammalian species. Projections of the fatty acid pairs of th ese molecules on the plane parallel to the membrane surface have been computed. The projection area of two saturated acids was shown to look like the projection area of its <<head>>, while substitution of one o r two saturated acids to nonsaturated ones increases the projection ar ea 25%.