PURPOSE Human meibomian lipids form the outermost lipid layer of the tear film and serve many important functions to maintain its integrity. Although not investigated earlier, these lipids may have antimicrobial properties that help in strengthening the innate host defense of tears at the ocular surface. The aim of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial role of human meibomian lipids. ...

Oxidizability of lipids in homogeneous solution varies linearly with the extent of their unsaturation. In vitro cellular, as well as in vivo, studies of oxidizability have generally relied upon chemical indicators of peroxidation such as thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances. To examine the oxidizability of lipids in cells, we have measured oxygen uptake and, using electron paramagnetic reson...

Two homologues of cereal grain resorcinolic lipids, 5-n-heptadecylresorcinol and 5-n-heptadecenylresorcinol studied in the system employing yeast cell protoplasts showed marked fusiogenic activity. The frequency of hybrid formation induced by studied amphiphiles was significantly higher than that obtained with the use of 40% (w/v) polyethylene glycol 4000. The resorcinolic lipids as fusion-indu...

Lipids were extracted from cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa grown on a pure hydrocarbon (tridecane), mixed hydrocarbons (JP-4 jet fuel), and on Trypticase Soy Broth. Total lipids produced from each substrate represented from 7.1 to 8.2% of cellular dry weight, of which 5.0 to 6.4% were obtained before cellular hydrolysis (free lipids) and 1.7 to 2.0% were extracted after cellular hydrolysis (bou...

Abstract Marine microalgae are a promising sustainable source of lipids, omega-3 fatty acids, and carbohydrates. Selected species belonging to the Bacillariophyceae, Haptophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae, Prasinophyceae were characterised for cellular content carbon nitrogen, production yields total carbohydrates, ?-glucans. Carbon nitrogen showed hyperbolic decrease with increasing cell numbers Chae...

Newly revealed properties of phosphatidylinositol transfer protein help to explain the cellular targeting of lipids involved in signal transduction, and indicate that inositol lipids play a part in directing membrane traffic.

For entry and infection viruses have developed numerous strategies to subjugate indispensable cellular factors and functions. Host cell lipids and cellular lipid synthesis machinery are no exception. Not only do viruses exploit existing lipid signalling and modifications for virus entry and trafficking, they also reprogram lipid synthesis, metabolism, and compartmentalization for assembly and e...

The dopaminergic system has been suggested to serve as a functional target for ketamine, especially with its addictive and antidepressant effects. In this work, intracellular vesicle impact electrochemical cytometry single cell amperometry were applied model line show that the intravesicular contents number of exocytotic events increased fraction release decreased after treatment by subanesthet...

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a powerful experimental system to study biochemical, cell biological and molecular biological aspects of lipid synthesis. Most but not all genes encoding enzymes involved in fatty acid, phospholipid, sterol or sphingolipid biosynthesis of this unicellular eukaryote have been cloned, and many gene products have been functionally characterized. Less informati...

Plant positive strand RNA viruses are intracellular infectious agents that take advantage of cellular lipids and membranes to support replication and protect viral RNA from degradation by host antiviral responses. In this review, we discuss how Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) co-opts lipid transfer proteins and modulates lipid metabolism and transport to facilitate the assembly of the membrane-...