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Food Chem. 2008 Sep 01;110(1):199-206. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.01.033. Epub 2008 Feb 01.

Stereospecific analysis of triacylglycerol and phospholipid fractions of four freshwater fish species: Salmo trutta, Ictalurus punctatus, Ictalurus melas and Micropterus salmoides.

Food chemistry

Maria Stella Simonetti, Francesca Blasi, Ancilla Bosi, Angela Maurizi, Lina Cossignani, Pietro Damiani

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Estimative e degli Alimenti, Sezione di Chimica Bromatologica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Estimative e degli Alimenti, Sezione di Chimica Bromatologica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 26050184 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.01.033

Abstract

The fatty acid compositions and the positional distributions of fatty acid in triacylglycerol (TAGs) and phospholipid (PLs) fractions of four cultured freshwater fish species (Salmo trutta, Ictalurus punctatus, Ictalurus melas and Micropterus salmoides) were investigated. As regards the TAGs fraction, the S. trutta (trout) and I. punctatus (channel catfish) species had the highest % content in n3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and the lowest n6/n3 ratio; this ratio resulted always lower than 1 in all the considered fish species. The PLs fraction of the considered fish was very interesting because of the high percentage of PUFAs, both in phosphatidylcholines and in phosphatidylethanolamines. The fatty acid distribution among the three sn-positions of the glycerol backbone was non-random; generally, both n6 and n3 PUFAs were mainly distributed between sn-2- and sn-3-positions of TAGs while the contents in sn-1-position were generally lower; in PLs fraction these fatty acids preferred the sn-2-position.

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Keywords: Freshwater fish; Phosphatidylcholines; Phosphatidylethanolamines; Structural analysis; Triacylglycerols

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