Comparative studies of bile salts, myxinol disulphate, the principal bile salt of hagfish (Myxinidae)
- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 100 (1) , 233-237
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1000233
Abstract
1. The principal bile salt, myxinol disulphate, of two hagfish species, Eptatretus stoutii and Myxine glutinosa, has been shown by chemical methods and by optical-rotatory and mass-spectral considerations to be probably the C-3,27-disulphate ester of 3beta,7alpha,16alpha,27-tetrahydroxy-5beta-cholestane. 2. Myxine liver sterols were about half ;free' and half esterified: cholesterol only was identified. 3. The chemical nature of myxinol is what might be expected for the bile alcohol of a very primitive vertebrate.Keywords
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