PMID: 1204633Dec 1, 1975Paper

Biochemistry of development in insects. Incorporation of fatty acids into different lipid classes

European Journal of Biochemistry
A M MunicioM A Pérez-Albarsanz

Abstract

1. To study the different metabolic behaviour of various stages of development of the insect Ceratitis capitata, the incorporation of labelled decanoic, lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, oleic, and linoleic acids into triacylglycerols by insect homogenates was investigated. The time-course of incorporation of labelled fatty acids was firstly studied by using oleic acid; it showed that after 10 min of incubation the levels of radioactivity incorporated into triacylglycerols and those remaining in the free fatty acids were practically unchanged. 2. All labelled fatty acids were efficiently incorporated by larval homogenates; however, most of the radioactivity remained as free fatty acids in the presence of pharate adult homogenates, palmitic, and stearic acids being the most scarcely incorporated by this stage of development of the insect. 3. Plots of triacylglycerol and free fatty acid radioactivites versus the stage of development defined a crossing-zone in coincidence with the larval-pupal apolysis. This metabolic difference between larval and pharate adult homogenates could not be explained through differences in the acyl-CoA synthetase activity of the insect; this enzyme activity was notably higher in pharate adult homoge...Continue Reading

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Dec 23, 1974·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications·R E Catalán, A M Municio
Sep 19, 1974·Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta·A M MunicioJ A Ramos
Oct 1, 1974·European Journal of Biochemistry·L FrancoM C Rojo
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May 15, 1973·FEBS Letters·M P CastillónA M Municio
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Jan 1, 1982·Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. B, Comparative Biochemistry·M A Pérez-AlbarsanzM N Recio
Dec 1, 1975·European Journal of Biochemistry·A M MunicioM A Perez-Albarsanz
Mar 21, 2006·Molecular Genetics and Metabolism·Julian A Martinez Agosto, Edward R B McCabe
Jan 1, 1985·Progress in Lipid Research·A M BeenakkersW J Van Marrewijk
Nov 22, 1976·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications·J M Fernandez-Sousa, A M Michelson
Apr 19, 1976·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications·R E CatalánA M Municio
Sep 7, 1976·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications·R E CatalánA M Municio

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