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Identification of the inositol isomers present in Tetrahymena
Michael C Kersting1, Michele Boyette, Joseph H Massey
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762, USA.
Abstract:
The inositol isomer composition of phosphoinositides, polyphosphoinositols, phosphatidylinositol-linked glycans, and glycosyl phosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins of logarithmic phase Tetrahymena vorax was determined by GC-MS analysis of trimethylsilylimadazole derivatives. The most abundant inositol found was the myo-isomer; however, appreciable percentages of scylloinositol were present in the free inositol pool, phosphatidylinositol-linked glycan fraction, and glycosyl phosphatidylinositol-anchored protein fraction. Trace quantities of chiro- and neo-inositols also were present.