H. ALSAID, G. De Souza, M. C. Bourdillon, F. Chaubet, A. Sulaiman, C. Zahir, E. Lancelot, D. Letourneur, A. Briguet, E. CanetSoulas Laboratoire de RMN UMR CNRS 5012. UCB Lyon1-ESCPE, Villeurbanne, France, EA 3740, Université UCB-Lyon1, Faculté Médecine Laennec, Lyon, France, INSERM U 698, Hôpital X. Bichat, Paris, France, CREATIS, UMR 5515 INSERM U 630, Radiologie, Hôpital Cardiologique, Bron, ...

Rational and objectives Obesity-associated inflammation plays a critical role in the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Increased adipose inflammation is associated with the recruitment of pro-inflammatory macrophages. Our aim was to determine if macrophage imaging using Magnetic Resonance microscopy following systemic injection of a new kind of iron-oxide nanoparticles (P904 dev...

Four glycolipids have been isolated from three fractions of pig blood. The glycolipids were presumably cerebroside, diglycosyl ceramide, triglycosyl ceramide, and globoside. The blood fractions were erythrocytes and plasma high and low density lipoproteins. Fatty acid distributions were determined for each glycolipid as a means to assist in identifying relationships among the several glycolipid...

Natural killer T (NKT) cells are a subset of T cells that recognize glycolipid antigens presented by the CD1d protein. The initial discovery of immunostimulatory glycolipids from a marine sponge and the T cells that respond to the compounds has led to extensive research by chemists and immunologists to understand how glycolipids are recognized, possible responses by NKT cells, and the structura...

Altered networks of gene regulation underlie many pathologies, including cancer. There are several proteins in cancer cells that are turned either on or off, which dramatically alters the metabolism and the overall activity of the cell, with the complex machinery of enzymes involved in the metabolism of glycolipids not being an exception. The aberrant glycosylation of glycolipids on the surface...

A highly selective (>99%) tandem catalytic system for the conversion of ethanol (up to 37%) to n-butanol, through the Guerbet process, has been developed using a bifunctional iridium catalyst coupled with bulky nickel or copper hydroxides. These sterically crowded nickel and copper hydroxides catalyze the key aldol coupling reaction of acetaldehyde to exclusively yield the C4 coupling product, ...

UNLABELLED AIM/ BACKGROUND: To determine the feasibility and safety of intratumoral α-gal glycolipids injection for conversion of human tumors into autologous Tumor Associated Antigens (TAA) vaccine. α-Gal glycolipids bind anti-Gal--the most abundant antibody in humans. Pre-clinical studies indicated that injected α-gal glycolipids insert into tumor cell membranes, bind anti-Gal and target tumo...

A novel group of glycosphingolipids was identified in the nervous tissue and skin of the mollusc, Aplysia kurodai, which lacks gangliosides. More than 30 glycolipids were detected on HPTLC plates and the structures of 9 major glycolipids were determined. They were pentaosylglycosphingolipids and their common core structure was GalNAcα1→3Galβ1→4Glcβ1→1ceramide, except for one glycolipid in which...

Mycobacteria are endowed with a highly impermeable mycomembrane that confers intrinsic resistance to many antibiotics. Several unique mycomembrane glycolipids have been isolated and structurally characterized, but the underlying organization and dynamics of glycolipids within the cell envelope remain poorly understood. We report here a study of mycomembrane dynamics that was enabled by trehalos...

Different strains and isogenic variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were assayed for their ability to bind glycolipids extracted from various sources. Among a large number of reference glycolipids, binding was observed only to lactosylceramide [Gal(beta 1-4)Glc(beta 1-1)Cer], isoglobotriaosylceramide [Gal(alpha 1-3)Gal(beta 1-4)Glc(beta 1-1)Cer], gangliotriaosylceramide [GalNAc(beta 1-4)Gal(beta 1...