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Isolation of Lipoprotein Particles from Chicken Egg Yolk for the Study of Bacterial Pathogen Fatty Acid Incorporation into Membrane Phospholipids
Published on: May 15, 2019
Enzymatic enrichment of egg-yolk phosphatidylcholine with alpha-linolenic acid
A Chojnacka1, W Gładkowski, G Kiełbowicz
1Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Norwida 25, Wroclaw, 50-375, Poland. jeanna@wp.pl
Biotechnology Letters
|January 24, 2009
Abstract:
alpha-Linolenic acid (ALA) was incorporated at 28% into the sn-1 position of egg-yolk phospatidylcholine using Novozyme 435 in one-step transesterification process. Using phospholipase A(2) in a two-step process gave 25% incorporation of ALA into the sn-2 position.

