GANGLIOSIDE GM1, AMMONIUM SALT, BOVINE

Химические свойства

Off-white powder

Использование

Ganglioside GM1 (Ovine Brain) has been used in the preparation of small unilamellar vesicles for fluorescence studies. It has also been used in liposome preparation for circular dichroism studies with human wild type?synuclein. It may be used as a standard lipid for electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry (MS) analysis.

Определение

ChEBI: A sialotetraosylceramide consisting of a branched pentasaccharide made up from one sialyl residue, two galactose residues, one N-acetylgalactosamine residue and a glucose residue at the reducing end attached to N-stear ylsphingosine via a beta-linkage.

Общее описание

Ganglioside GM1 is referred as brain ganglioside. It is an acidic glycosphingolipid comprising N-acetylneuraminic acid or N-glycolylneuraminic acid residues. It is upregulated in developing brain. Ganglioside GM1 has five glycosyl units.