Ischemic brain injury: the importance of calcium, lipolytic activities, and free fatty acids.

Ischemic brain insults are accompanied by several metabolic alterations. In the present review, the adverse reactions, which might be important for the outcome of these insults, are those related to phospholipid and polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism triggered by the disturbed calcium ion homeostasis in combination with energy depletion following ischemia. The conditions lead to an activation of phospholipases and to a decreased rate of phospholipid resynthesis with a concomitant increase in the concentration of free fatty acids, in particular arachidonic acid.

High-resolution proton magnetic resonance study of porcine colipase and its interactions with taurodeoxycholate.

A high-resolution 270-MHz proton NMR study of procine colipase I has been performed, and the resonances in the aromatic region of the spectrum have been assigned to amino acid residues by pH titration and decoupling experiments. The apparent pKa values of the three tyrosines were calculated to be 10.2, 10.