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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 35, 2041-2048, Copyright © 1994 by Lipid Research, Inc.
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LR Hagey, CD Schteingart, HT Ton-Nu and AF Hofmann
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 93092-0813.
The biliary bile acid composition of 30 species of pigeons and doves belonging to seven genera in the avian order Columbiformes was determined using TLC, HPLC, GLC/MS, LSIMS, and NMR. In 23 of 25 species of fruit pigeons and doves, chenodeoxycholic acid was the major bile acid (> 50%). In only 1 species (Ptilinopus ornatus) was cholic the major bile acid. A number of species (7 of 15 species in the genus Ptilinopus, and 6 of 9 species in the genus Ducula) contained 1 beta,3 alpha,7 alpha-trihydroxy-5 beta-cholan-24-oic acid in proportions ranging from 2 to 43%. This 1 beta-hydroxy derivative of chenodeoxycholic acid has not been previously identified as a major biliary bile acid in vertebrates. Five of 15 species of the genus Ptilinopus, 5 of 9 species of the genus Ducula, and the only species examined for the genus Gymnophaps contained 23R-hydroxy chenodeoxycholic acid in detectable proportions, ranging from 1 to 4%. Bile acids were conjugated (in N-acyl linkage) with glycine and taurine in 28 species and with only taurine in 2 species. The fruit pigeons are the first non-mammalian genera identified to date in whom bile acids are conjugated with glycine, as well as with taurine. An incidental finding was that a gallbladder was present in 3 genera (Ptilinopus, Ducula, and Gymnophaps) and absent in 4 genera (Gallicolumba, Chalcophaps, Otidiphaps, and Treron).
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