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Arsenic-containing long-chain fatty acids in cod-liver oil: A result of biosynthetic infidelity?

Authors: Rumpler, Alice, Edmonds, John S., Katsu, Mariko, Jensen, Kenneth B., Goessler, Walter, Raber, Georg, Helga Gunnlaugsdottir, Francesconi Kevin A.

Version: Applied Chemistry - International Edition

Publication year: 2008

Summary:

A bit fishy: Six arsenolipids have been isolated from cod-liver oil and identified by HPLC and mass spectrometry as a series of arsenic-containing long-chain fatty acids (for example, see picture). These fatty acids account for about 20 % of the total arsenolipid content of cod-liver oil.

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