Mechanism and Identification of the Triglyceride Alteration Caused by a Plasma Factor 1

Abstract

Conclusion

The previously described plasma factor capable of producing an increase in the R_f value of triolein in TLC was shown to be bicarbonate acting as a catalyst in the production of ethyl esters of oleic acid from triolein.

We are grateful to Dr. Donald B. Zilversmit for the GLC procedure which definitively identified the altered fraction, and to Drs. Jules Hirsch, Thomas Gallagher, Robert Rosenfeld, and Mr. Morris Wolf-man for help and criticism during various phases of this investigation.