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什么是 Lipid, fatty acid?

又称: lipid · fatty acid · saturated fatty acid · unsaturated fatty acid

Definition 9.1 University Biology — Year 1 · 第 9 章 — Lipids

Lipids are the biological molecules defined not by a common structure but by a common property: they are insoluble in water and soluble in non-polar solvents. Most are built on fatty acids: carboxylic acids with an unbranched hydrocarbon chain of 12 to 24 12\text{ to }24\, carbons, almost always an even number (they are assembled two carbons at a time, Chapter 16). A saturated fatty acid has only single bonds and a straight, flexible chain; an unsaturated one has one or more double bonds, in the cis configuration, each putting a rigid kink of about 30∘30^\circ in the chain. Notation: C18:1 Δ9\Delta^9 is an 18-carbon acid with one double bond after carbon 9 (oleic acid); an omega-3 acid has its last double bond three carbons from the methyl end.

Two 18-carbon fatty acids. The saturated chain is straight and packs closely against its neighbours; the cis double bond of oleic acid bends the chain and keeps neighbours apart, which is why oleic acid is liquid at room temperature and stearic acid a solid.
Two 18-carbon fatty acids. The saturated chain is straight and packs closely against its neighbours; the cis double bond of oleic acid bends the chain and keeps neighbours apart, which is why oleic acid is liquid at room temperature and stearic acid a solid.

示例

Example 9.9 (Bile salts)

Dietary fat arrives in the intestine as oil; the lipase that digests it works only at the oil–water interface. Bile salts, amphiphilic derivatives of cholesterol, coat the fat into droplets a micrometre across, multiplying the interface a thousandfold, and then carry the fatty acids released, in micelles, to the absorbing cells (Chapter 22). The same trick is used by soap.

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