Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 6, 220-221, April 1965
Copyright © 1965 by Lipid Research, Inc.
Establishment of erythro configuration of ceramides from beef brain and chicken liver
Vernell Groom and Michael Sribney
Departments of Biochemistry and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
The sphingosine moiety of ceramides isolated from beef brain and chicken liver has been characterized as having the erythro stereochemical configuration. This is in agreement with the configuration of sphingosine as found in cerebrosides and sphingomyelin.
Supplementary key words ceramides erythro configuration beef brain chickenWliver tribenzoyl triacetyl dihydroceramide
Submitted on September 14, 1964
Accepted on November 4, 1964