Abstract
The triglycerides of the fat globules of sheep and goat milk were isolated and separated into short and long chain lengths by silicic acid column chromatography. The short chain lengths comprised major triglycerides with 34–44 acyl carbon atoms and accounted for nearly 50% of the total milk fat. The long chain lengths contained major triglycerides with 40–54 acyl carbons. Stereospecific analyses of the short chain triglyceride fraction showed that of the 20–23 moles per cent of C4−C8 fatty acids present, at least 95% were specifically attached to the glycerol molecule in the position corresponding to carbon 3 ofsn-glycerol. The distribution of the other fatty acids (C10 or greater) did not show such marked specificity for either the 1 or the 2 position. Although individual triglycerides were not identified, the specific placement of the fatty acids could best the accounted for by assuming a common pool of long chain 1,2-diglycerides which served as precursors of the bulk of both short and long chain triglycerides during milk fat synthesis.
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Marai, L., Breckenridge, W.C. & Kuksis, A. Specific distribution of fatty acids in the milk fat triglycerides of goat and sheep. Lipids 4, 562–570 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02531042
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02531042