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Glycolipids: Occurrence, Significance, and Properties

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the occurrence and the physicochemical properties of glycolipids in Nature. Owing to space limitations, the presented overview must be incomplete, and, thus, mainly publications of the past 15 years are included. However, all review articles cited herein inform the interested reader about earlier work. Although lipopolysaccharides (LPS), lipoarabinomannan (LAM), lipomannan, lipoglycans, and lipoteichoic acids are not understood as glycolipids per definition, their occurrence and properties are also described in this chapter. GPI-anchored lipids is a main topic of Chap. 7.4.

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Abbreviations

BHT:

bacteriohopanetetrol

CAC:

critical aggregate concentration

DTBP:

2,6-di-tert-butylpyridine

FTIR:

Fourier‐transformed infrared spectroscopy

GPL:

glycopeptidolipids

HIV:

human immunodeficiency virus

LAM:

lipoarabinomannan

LPS:

lipopolysaccharides

LTA:

lipoteichoic acids

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I am indebted to Prof. Dr. U. Seydel (Research Center Borstel) for help with Fig. 17.

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Holst, O. (2008). Glycolipids: Occurrence, Significance, and Properties. In: Fraser-Reid, B.O., Tatsuta, K., Thiem, J. (eds) Glycoscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30429-6_39

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