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A comparison of the ganglioside distributions of fat tissues in various animals by two‐dimensional thin layer chromatography
Author(s) -
Ohashi Masako
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
lipids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1558-9307
pISSN - 0024-4201
DOI - 10.1007/bf02533566
Subject(s) - ganglioside , adipose tissue , clinical chemistry , lipidology , thin layer chromatography , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , chromatography
The ganglioside distributions of various fat tissues from human, rabbit, rat, mouse, chicken and frog were compared with pig adipose gangliosides by two‐dimensional thin layers chromatography. It was found that there is a remarkable species variation in ganglioside distribution, especially in the composition and relative concentration of complex gangliosides. Differing from pig adipose tissues, those of human, rabbit, rat, mouse, chicken, but not frog, contained GM3 as a most abundant ganglioside. The data for human, rabbit and chicken indicated a simple distribution of only NeuActype gangliosides, while those for rat and mouse indicated a rather complicated pattern containing both NeuAc‐ and NeuGc‐type gangliosides. The ganglioside pattern of the frog fat body differed markedly from those of mammalian fat tissues because of the presence of three different, unsual monosialosylgangliosides as major components. In other respects, a substantial amount of disialosylgangliosides was commonly found in all animal fat tissues.