Thermotropic behavior of galactosylceramides with cis-monoenoic fatty acyl chains1
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Keywords
Sphingolipid
Differential scanning calorimetry
Metastable phase formation
Hydrocarbon chain-length asymmetry
Human immunodeficiency virus glycolipid receptor
Abbreviations
DSC, differential scanning calorimetry
FTIR, Fourier transform infrared
GalCer or N-acyl GalSph, galactosylceramide
GalSpd, galactosylsphingoid
HIV, human immunodeficiency virus
NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance
TLC, thin layer chromatography
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Portions of this investigation were presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society held in New Orleans, LA, USA [69].
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Present address: Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar St., New Haven, CT 06520-8023, USA.
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