Lipidomics update - April, 2018
The lipidomics update provides an overview of developments in lipid research. Each month we offer a fresh collection of research, news and events for the specialist and the interested non-specialist alike.
LIPID MAPS® highlights
PlantFA DatabaseLIPID MAPS has recently incorporated several hundred plant fatty acid structures, including common names and other annotations from the PlantFA Database (https://plantfadb.org/) at Michigan State University. This resource provides updates and enhancements to the Seed Oil Fatty Acid (SOFA) database at the Max Rubner-Institute (http://sofa.mri.bund.de). The PlantFA Database contains data and references for hundreds of fatty acids synthesized by thousands of plants along with their phylogenetic relationships. Currently the LIPID MAPS Structure Database contains over 550 plant fatty acids with links to the corresponding PlantFA online source, for example Coniferonic acid with a PlantFA id of 10121.
Lipid of the month
Coniferonic acid (Systematic name:5Z,9Z,12Z,15Z-octadecatetraenoic acid) is a C18 Delta(5)-unsaturated bis-methylene-interrupted fatty acid commonly found in pine seed oil. It is assumed to be synthesized from alpha-linolenic acid (ALA; 18:3Delta(9,12,15)) by Delta(5)-desaturation. A unicellular green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii also accumulates this fatty acid in a betaine lipid.
Events calendar
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Deuel Conference on Lipids
March 6 - 9, 2018
Coronado, CA, USAAmerican Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
April 14-18, 2018
Chicago, IL, USA7th European Lipidomic Meeting
During the meeting a LIPID MAPS representative will present a workshop on the use of databases and tools on the LIPID MAPS Lipidomics Gateway website.Sept 26-29, 2018
Leipzig, Germany
Research library
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Major roles for minor bacterial lipids identified by mass spectrometry
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids Volume 1862, Issue 11, November 2017, Pages 1319-1324