Acylglycerol structure of mustard seed oil and of cardiac lipids of rats during dietary lipidosis

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Abstract
Stereospecific degradation and combined gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric (gc/ms) analysis were employed in a detailed investigation of the triacylglycerol structure of mustard seed oil and of the triacylglycerols transiently accumulating in the hearts of young rats receiving the oil in their diet. Feeding mustard seed oil at 40% of the daily caloric requirement resulted in a deposition of cardiac triacylglycerols containing a high proportion of enantiomers of a positional distribution and molecular association of fatty acids which were closely similar to those found in the dietary oil. Complete structures were derived for a total of 88 species representing 75-85% of the triacylglycerols. About 90% of the accumulated triacylglycerol contained at least 1 long-chain (C20-C22) monounsaturated fatty acid per molecule. The long-chain acids were confined mainly to the primary positions and preferentially to the sn-3-position of the glycerol molecule. The dietary lipidosis is accompanied by little or no accumulation of the normal rat tissue triacylglycerols containing C16 and C18 fatty acids. The deposition and eventual clearance of the enantiomeric long-chain triacylglycerols in the rat heart during mustard seed oil feeding may be largely a result of a gradual change in specificity of the cardiac lipases.