title: Stereospecific analysis of triacylglycerol and phospholipid fractions of four freshwater fish species: Salmo trutta, Ictalurus punctatus, Ictalurus melas and Micropterus salmoides.
abstract: The fatty acid compositions and the positional distributions of fatty acid in triacylglycerol (TAGs) and phospholipid (PLs) fractions of four cultured freshwater fish species (Salmo trutta, Ictalurus punctatus, Ictalurus melas and Micropterus salmoides) were investigated. As regards the TAGs fraction, the S. trutta (trout) and I. punctatus (channel catfish) species had the highest % content in n3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and the lowest n6/n3 ratio; this ratio resulted always lower than 1 in all the considered fish species. The PLs fraction of the considered fish was very interesting because of the high percentage of PUFAs, both in phosphatidylcholines and in phosphatidylethanolamines. The fatty acid distribution among the three sn-positions of the glycerol backbone was non-random; generally, both n6 and n3 PUFAs were mainly distributed between sn-2- and sn-3-positions of TAGs while the contents in sn-1-position were generally lower; in PLs fraction these fatty acids preferred the sn-2-position.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Estimative e degli Alimenti, Sezione di Chimica Bromatologica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
authors.forename: Maria Stella
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Simonetti
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Estimative e degli Alimenti, Sezione di Chimica Bromatologica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Blasi
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Estimative e degli Alimenti, Sezione di Chimica Bromatologica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
authors.forename: Ancilla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bosi
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Estimative e degli Alimenti, Sezione di Chimica Bromatologica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maurizi
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Estimative e degli Alimenti, Sezione di Chimica Bromatologica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy.
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cossignani
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Estimative e degli Alimenti, Sezione di Chimica Bromatologica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. Electronic address: chimbrom@unipg.it.
authors.forename: Pietro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Damiani
keywords: Freshwater fish; Phosphatidylcholines; Phosphatidylethanolamines; Structural analysis; Triacylglycerols