1. The turnover of lipids, of myelin and other brain subcellular particles has been studied in double-labelling experiments on intact rats. 2. Overall metabolism of brain mitochondrial lipids was three times slower than that of the liver. 3. Individual lipids of brain mitochondria and myelin were also separated and their metabolism was studied. 4. All myelin lipids examined undergo very slow tu...

Depending on growth phase and culture conditions, cardiolipin (CL) makes up 5-15% of the phospholipids in Escherichia coli with the remainder being primarily phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG). In E. coli, the cls and ybhO genes (renamed clsA and clsB, respectively) each encode a CL synthase (Cls) that catalyzes the condensation of two PG molecules to form CL and glycer...

A new method is described for the isolation of beef heart cardiolipin. A lipid-protein complex, rich in cardiolipin, is obtained by a one-step solvent fractionation of the tissue total lipid extract. Cardiolipin in the complex is largely freed of protein by salt denaturation and is further purified by gel filtration on Sephadex LH-20 followed by column chromatography on bicarbonate-treated sili...

Bovine heart cytochrome-c oxidase was reconstituted in liposomes (asolectin) and the activity measured in the presence and absence of uncoupler at increasing concentrations of non-esterified fatty acids. Palmitic and stearic acids resulted in a decrease of about 40% in the respiratory control ratio at a concentration of 1 microM, when measured using a spectrophotometric procedure but not with a...

The cytoplasmic and outer membranes of a nonconditional chain-forming mutant, Escherichia coli PM61 envC, were separated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation. The phosphatidylglycerol/cardiolipin ratio in both membrane fractions was about one-third as high as in the parental strain P678. The increased level of cardiolipin in PM61 membranes is the result of an alteration of the polyglycero...

The idea of a Cardiolipin workshop in Italy came to the meeting organizers in June 2011, during the mini‐ sabbatical of Angela Corcelli in New York City in the Laboratory of Michael Schlame. They thought to take advantage of the presence of the 54th International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids (ICBL) at Bari in 2013 to organize the Cardiolipin workshop as a satellite event. The web page...

The specific FTA-ABS and TPI tests are too costly and time-consuming to be used as screening procedures for treponemal disease. The VDRL test detects reagin, the antibody amongst others produced in syphilis and yaws and also present in a wide variety of disorders giving the biological false positive reaction. The RPR card test (Portnoy, Garson, and Smith, 1957; Reed, 1965), like the VDRL test, ...

The design of a human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) immunogen that can induce broadly reactive neutralizing antibodies is a major goal of HIV-1 vaccine development. Although rare human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) exist that broadly neutralize HIV-1, HIV-1 envelope immunogens do not induce these antibody specificities. Here we demonstrate that the two most broadly reactive HIV-1 envelope gp4...

Membrane lipid homeostasis is maintained by de novo synthesis, intracellular transport, remodeling, and degradation of lipid molecules. Glycerophospholipids, the most abundant structural component of eukaryotic membranes, are subject to acyl chain remodeling, which is defined as the post-synthetic process in which one or both acyl chains are exchanged. Here, we review studies addressing acyl ch...

Comparative serum testing by the Wassermann reaction using cardiolipin and standard antigens was reported by Price and Wilkinson (1950). Test results on 5,124 sera were reviewed and it was concluded that cardiolipin antigen was appreciably more sensitive than the standard antigen (Harrison and Wyler technique), as it detected a higher proportion of cases of early primary syphilis and also remai...