RAPESEED PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE HYDROLYSIS TO PHOSPHATIDIC ACID USING PLANT EXTRACTS WITH PHOPSPHOLIPASE D.

Phosphatidic acid (PA) has a crucial role in cell membrane structure and function. For that reason it has a possible application in the treatment of some health disorders in humans, can be used as a natural and non toxic emulsifier and the component of drug carriers in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics as well as a component for synthesis of some new phospholipids. PA is short-lived in the cell and is difficult to extract directly from the biological material.

Rapeseed lecithin hydroxylation by chlorine replacing with hydroxyl groups in chlorinated phospholipids.

Rapeseed lecithin ethanol soluble fraction (LESF) was hydroxylated with 30% hydrogen peroxide in the presence of acetic acid. The product was compared to the one obtained by method based on nucleophilic substitution reaction of phospholipids chlorine derivatives. In this approach, hydrogen chloride was added to double bonds in unsaturated acyl groups of phospholipids.